Broadcast history

BBC Radio 4

Something Understood: The Animal Inside

May 18 2008
Presented by Christie Dickason
Produced by Alan Hall

Alan Hall The poet Christie Dickason reflects on that magical world where humans lived as equals with animals and even spoke the same language and asks what we owe animals and whether we acknowledge our shared past. With reference to the poetry of David Grubb and Simon Armitage, Adam Douglas’ study of the myth of the werewolf and music by Taraf de Haidouks, Messiaen and Flanders and Swann.

  • Christie Dickason