Broadcast history

BBC Radio 4

SU: Hope Against Hope

29 October 2006
Presented by Geoffrey Smith
Produced by Alan Hall

Geoffrey Smith 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.

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