Broadcast history

BBC Radio 4

Something Understood

7, 28 October 2007, 13 January 2008
Produced by Alan Hall

Fergal Keane reflects on ideas of compassion and the phenomenon of 'conspicuous compassion', with reference to writings by Philip Roth, Elizabeth Jennings and Marilynne Robinson and music by Brahms and Benjamin Britten, Mahalia Jackson and Leonard Cohen.

A Unique Broadcasting production

  • Photo by Hannah Lyne