Another Country

Another Country

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By The Lake

20021201

Writer JOHN MCGAHERN walks round the lake by his home in Co Leitrim and reflects on change and continuity.

20021110

'In the first of four personal journeys, writer Ted ChamBERLIN recalls growing up in Southern Alberta, Canada, and listening to his grandfather's memories of the 1880s.'

Poet In The Bush

20030608

First in a series of four personal journeys.

As he travels around his beloved Bunyah, LES MURRAY talks about his harsh upbringing on a New South Wales dairy farm, about the tragic death of his mother, and how words have been an obsession since he first spelled out 'G-o-l-d-e-n S-y-r-u-p' on the front of a tin.

Valerie Murray remembers the difficulties of their early courtship and reflects on the impact that autism has had on their lives, in this intimate portrait of Australia's most well-known poet.

20021117

'In the second of four personal journeys, poet and translator Michael Hofmann visits Brody, birthplace of novelist JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939), who wrote about the Habsburg Empire.'

Fiji In 1974

20030615

In accordance with local tradition his umbilical chord was buried under the roots of a coconut tree, a practice which is said to guarantee the person's return to the land of their birth.

As he travels through Fiji's lush interior and coral-fringed coast, he finds himself following in the footsteps of another young poet who fell in love with the islands, Rupert Brooke.

The Red In My Mind

20030622

Another Country A series of four personal journeys 3.

The Red in My Mind The English poet LAVINIA GREENLAW travels to Amherst in Massachusetts, the lifelong home of the great 19th century American poet EMILY DICKINSON.

She famously published only a handful of poems in her life and lived an increasingly reclusive existence in her bedroom in the family home.

Was she mad or did she know what she was up to? LAVINIA GREENLAW, who spent some time teaching writing in Amherst, revisits the town and tests her own feelings for the place, its hostilities and hemmed in quality, with those of EMILY DICKINSON.

With contributions from poet James Lasdun, critic Helen Vendler and museum curator Betty Falsey.

20030629

Another Country 4.

Two Cultures? Last in the series of four personal journeys.

Sunetra Gupta is a Reader in Epidemiology at Oxford University; she is also a novelist.

She was born in Calcutta, raised in Ethiopia and Zambia, and spoke Bengali and Amharic long before she mastered English - the language she now works and writes in.

These intersections of cultures - science and the arts - and traditions - the Bengal of Tagore and the scientific prose of 'Nature' - inform her life.

How does she move between these other countries of the mind and heart?

Episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Comments
	By The Lake	20021201	Writer JOHN MCGAHERN walks round the lake by his home in Co Leitrim and reflects on change and continuity.
01		20021110	'In the first of four personal journeys, writer Ted ChamBERLIN recalls growing up in Southern Alberta, Canada, and listening to his grandfather's memories of the 1880s.'
01	Poet In The Bush	20030608	First in a series of four personal journeys. As he travels around his beloved Bunyah, LES MURRAY talks about his harsh upbringing on a New South Wales dairy farm, about the tragic death of his mother, and how words have been an obsession since he first spelled out 'G-o-l-d-e-n S-y-r-u-p' on the front of a tin. Valerie Murray remembers the difficulties of their early courtship and reflects on the impact that autism has had on their lives, in this intimate portrait of Australia's most well-known poet.
02		20021117	'In the second of four personal journeys, poet and translator Michael Hofmann visits Brody, birthplace of novelist JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939), who wrote about the Habsburg Empire.'
02	Fiji In 1974	20030615	In accordance with local tradition his umbilical chord was buried under the roots of a coconut tree, a practice which is said to guarantee the person's return to the land of their birth. As he travels through Fiji's lush interior and coral-fringed coast, he finds himself following in the footsteps of another young poet who fell in love with the islands, Rupert Brooke.
03	The Red In My Mind	20030622	Another Country A series of four personal journeys 3. The Red in My Mind The English poet LAVINIA GREENLAW travels to Amherst in Massachusetts, the lifelong home of the great 19th century American poet EMILY DICKINSON. She famously published only a handful of poems in her life and lived an increasingly reclusive existence in her bedroom in the family home. Was she mad or did she know what she was up to? LAVINIA GREENLAW, who spent some time teaching writing in Amherst, revisits the town and tests her own feelings for the place, its hostilities and hemmed in quality, with those of EMILY DICKINSON. With contributions from poet James Lasdun, critic Helen Vendler and museum curator Betty Falsey.
04		20030629	Another Country 4. Two Cultures? Last in the series of four personal journeys. Sunetra Gupta is a Reader in Epidemiology at Oxford University; she is also a novelist. She was born in Calcutta, raised in Ethiopia and Zambia, and spoke Bengali and Amharic long before she mastered English - the language she now works and writes in. These intersections of cultures - science and the arts - and traditions - the Bengal of Tagore and the scientific prose of 'Nature' - inform her life. How does she move between these other countries of the mind and heart?