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• An American Legend
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• Something Understood: Possessions and Limitations
• Something Understood: Reflections
• Something Understood: Spools of Time
• Something Understood: The Dance of Life
• Something Understood: Victimhood and Survival
• Songs Your Godmother Should Know

BBC Radio 4

Something Understood: Reflections

Katy Radford considers how individuals and societies relate to their own reflections, from the distortions of magicians to the significance of religious traditions. With readings from Sylvia Plath, Abraham Lincoln and Alfred Lord Tennyson and music by Ravel, Denis Baptiste and Lou Reed.