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BBC Radio 4Something Understood: Hope Against Hope29 October 2006
Presented by Geoffrey Smith
Produced by Alan Hall
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Falling Tree
Broadcast history |
BBC Radio 4Something Understood: Hope Against Hope29 October 2006
Presented by Geoffrey Smith
Produced by Alan Hall
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Though hope is one of the cardinal (Christian) virtues, it can be hard to maintain in especially bleak circumstances. Geoffrey Smith explores hope in extremis with help from the poetry of Thomas Hardy and George Herbert and the writings of Primo Levi and Loren Eiseley, with music ranging from Schubert to Big Bill Broonzy.