Reading Between the Lines
When does the ability to read between the lines become vital? From codes in Shakespeare to modern surveillance states, Mark Tully seeks out the secret messages of everyday life.
When does the ability to read between the lines become vital? From codes in Shakespeare to modern surveillance states, Mark Tully seeks out the secret messages of everyday life.
Shakespeare scholar Clare Asquith has witnessed the secret dissident propaganda that flourished in Soviet Russia and she has also written a book about hidden political and religious allegories in the plays of Shakespeare. Mark discusses her approach to reading between the lines and the techniques she has learnt to help her interpret literary codes.
In the light of this, he considers the symbols and subtexts that exist all around us - through culture, literature and music, touching on the work of Alban Berg, Sergei Prokoviev and Barrington Pheloung and the writing of Queen Elizabeth I, World War Two cryptographer Leo Marks and poet Theodore Weiss.
The readers are Claire Vousden and Vincent Ebrahim.
Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling
A Unique production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4.
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Emerson String Quartet
Lyric Suite for String Quartet (1926), II. Andante amoroso Emerson String Quartet (feat. Alban Berg)
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Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Symphony no. 6 in E flat minor, Op. 111 (feat. Sergey Prokofiev)
- Chandos.
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The Police
Every Breath You Take
- Synchronicity.
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Barrington Pheloung
Inspector Morse Theme
- VTCD-62.
Readings
Title: The Life That I Have
Author: Leo Marks
Published in Between Silk and Cyanide, by The Free Press (Simon and Schuster)
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Title: Psalter听
Author: Elizabeth I
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Title: Edouard Glissant and Post Colonial Theory听
Author: Celia Britton听
Published by University Press of Virginia
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Title: The Dancing Men听
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle听
Published by Dover Publications
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Title: Today Was The Absolute Worst Day Ever听
Author: Chaney Gorkin听
Unpublished, found on Twitter
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Title: Between The Lines听
Author: Theodore Weiss听
Published by the Poetry Foundation
Broadcasts
- Sun 12 Feb 2017 06:05蜜芽传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 12 Feb 2017 23:30蜜芽传媒 Radio 4