| Description | Track 1: test tone 0.22 mins
Track 2: Patricia Healy reads the poem 'Sortie' by Harry Brown 0.21 mins
Track 3: discussion of death at a distance, previously was personal relationship between killer and victim, destroyed by bombs and mines in twentieth century. The landscape becomes deathly 1.05 mins
Track 4: song 'The Sun is Burning' by the Ian Campbell Folk Group equating the sun with the flash of an atom bomb, 1.28 mins
Track 5: discussion of experiences in First World War and Second World War taking fear of death from people, and fear of God 0.26 mins
Track 6: Howard Gurney reads a passage from William Hoffman's war novel 'The Trumpet Unblown' containing a discussion between a soldier and a chaplain 0.37 mins
Track 7: discussion of the focus on violent death in wartime and the perception of death in today's society, extract from Howard Nemerov's poem 'Trial and Death', discussion of 'good' death and the illusion of knowledge provided by war photography 1.45 mins
Track 8: Patricia Healy reads from Randall Jarrell's poem 'The Soldier Walks Under the Trees of the University' 1.03 mins
Track 9: discussion of lack of contact with other human beings, comparing this situation with concentration camps, concentration of humanity, inequality of life, exposure to other people's death dulling senses, discusses visiting a concentration camp and the search for meaning there, difficulty in coming to terms with the deaths of the Holocaust and of believing the camps existed with the psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim, analogy with difficulties in believing in the reality of nuclear holocaust 3.30 mins
Track 10: discussion of politicians views of nuclear war and absence of God in death - machines for impersonal death, one of functions of God given to machines, almost religious nature of the defence of nuclear weapons as necessary 1.29 mins
Track 11: extract from Bruno Bettelheim 'The Informed Heart' and discussion from other survivors about the refusal of victims of the Holocaust to acknowledge the existance of the camps and the gas chambers 2.04 mins
Track 12: song 'Free Men We Shall Be At Last'
Track 13: discussion of the uselessness of self sacrifice in modern war and the likely aftermath of nuclear war, further discussion of personal and societal attitudes to death, Herbert Marcuse 'The Ideology of Death' 2.42 mins
Track 14: discussion of death as seen by the state as a statistic or a policy, and the acceptance of death with the insistence on dignity in life and death 2.45 mins
Track 15: 'No Man is an Island' by John Donne 0.34 mins
Track 16: programme credits with music from the James Bond film 'Goldfinger'
Total: 23.21 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0023280 |