Making Space
First broadcast from 19990329 to 20020327.
drama-documentaries looking at the influence of specific rooms and gardens on the creation of works of literature and music.
- These programmes were in the Afternoon Play slot.
6 episodes
| Series | Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 01 | The Beast At The Bottom Of The Sea | 19990329 | Roger Nichols discusses Claude Debussy's 1915 holiday at Mon Coin, the cottage where he wrote the Twelve Etudes for piano. Illness and the war are conspiring to silence his muse, but he becomes inspired by the sea. Clive Francis. |
| 01 | 02 | Send My Roots Rain | 19990330 | Three 2: `Send My Roots Rain'. Derek Jacobi stars as Gerard Manley Hopkins in a dramatisation of his final Jesuit retreat to Tullabeg in IRELAND in 1889. Commentary by Norman White. |
| 01 | 03 LAST | The Red Room | 19990331 | Three 3: `The Red Room'. Glyn Hughes explains how in 1846, Charlotte Bronte accompanied her father, the Rev Patrick Bronte, to MANCHESTER where he was to undergo a cataract operation. They stayed in a room in a boarding house, where in virtual darkness, Charlotte wrote the bulk of her masterpiece `Jane Eyre'. |
| 02 | 01 | Earth Song | 20020325 | Three drama documentaries. 1: `Earth Song' by Nicholas McInerny. Dr Donald Mitchell analyses Gustav Mahler's great song cycle, created the summer after his elder daughter died. |
| 02 | 02 | The Language Of Flowers | 20020326 | Three drama documentaries. 2: `The Language of Flowers' by Tim Jackson. Dr Chris Mouncey examines 18th-century religious poet Christopher Smart's `Jubilate Agno'. |
| 02 | 03 LAST | The End Of Time | 20020327 | Three drama documentaries. 3: `The End of Time' by Nicholas McInerny. How, in a WWII prison camp bathroom, Olivier Messiaen managed to compose `The Quartet for the End of Time'. |