Theme and Variations: What We Value (Téma a variace: Co hodnotíme, 2013)

Přidal: Premek |

Březen 14, 2018

Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown.

Nastudoval A Falling Tree production v roce 2013. Premiéra 5. 10. 2013 (BBC Radio 3, 22:00 h.) jako 1. díl cyklu Between the Ears at 20.

Lit.: anonym: Theme and Variations: What We Value. Episode 1 of 4. In web BBC Radio 3, říjen 2013 (článek + nahrávka k poslechu a stažení). – Cit.: Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow.

The words of TS Eliot provide a cue for this playful, challenging and touching anniversary series celebrating 20 years of Between the Ears.

Radio 3′s showcase for adventurous feature-making was launched in October 1993 with a ‚piece for radio’, by the composer Ian Gardiner. ‚Monument’, which was conceived as a kind of London symphony, received the prestigious Prix Italia the following year.

Shadowplay offers a new four-part ‚symphony of voices’, exploring the shadows that may fall between the appearance of things and their reality. Making use of the full palette available to the radio producer – documentary, fiction, music, pure sound – four feature-makers address our values, our identities, our romantic inclinations and our sense of worth.

In the first movement ‚Theme and Variations’, ideas about what we value – wealth, health, liberty and happiness – are revealed through the experiences and insights of the economists Ha-Joon Chang and Felix Martin, the life-model Sue Tilley and the poet Jazzman John Clarke, and also with reference to Ian Gardiner’s ‚Monument’, Ritalin and Mary Poppins.

Produced by Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown.
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3.