Broadcast history

BBC Radio 4

Something Understood

23 July 2006
Presented by Fergal Keane
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

Broadcast Sunday 23 July 2006

  • Photo by Hannah Lyne