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Words and Music Dreams and Nightmares Words & Music: Dreams and Nightmares

"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious" said Sigmund Freud. And the unconscious is a storehouse for unacceptable ideas or desires, traumatic memories & emotions we repress. We all dream - and not just while we sleep. So what can our dreams tell us about ourselves and the society we live in? With music from the likes of Max Richter, Debussy, Aretha Franklin & Brahms & words read by Jade Anouka & Brid Brennan from artists & activists such as Sojourner Truth, Franz Kafka, Yeats & Langston Hughes. Producer: Debbie Kilbride. Main image: Portrait of African-American orator and civil rights activist Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883), 1860s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)