Short History Of Darkness

Episode

Title

First
Broadcast

Repeated

Comments

Night Time And Memory

20001211

20021230

An experimental montage that brings together different experiences of darkness and night.This programme moves from bloody accounts of the Falklands War, to the bird song in the midsummer night forest, to radio waves in nocturnal transmissions. With new poems by Hugo Williams and John Burnside.

Dark Times, Dark Places

20001212

20021231

Including descriptions of the peculiar black of the Antarctic winter, the solitary darkness of the seabed, and a haunting account of blindness. And new works by poets Sarah Maguire and JOHN BURNSIDE mix memory and imagination.

03 LAST

Dark Thoughts

20001213

20030101

An audio essay looking at the spiritual and elemental aspects of darkness, taking us from infant fear of the dark, through a universe filled with dark matter, and ending with beliefs about a black underworld of the afterlife. New poems are performed by RUTH PADEL and Collete Bryce.

Episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
01	Night Time And Memory	20001211	20021230	An experimental montage that brings together different experiences of darkness and night.This programme moves from bloody accounts of the Falklands War, to the bird song in the midsummer night forest, to radio waves in nocturnal transmissions. With new poems by Hugo Williams and John Burnside.
02	Dark Times, Dark Places	20001212	20021231	Including descriptions of the peculiar black of the Antarctic winter, the solitary darkness of the seabed, and a haunting account of blindness. And new works by poets Sarah Maguire and JOHN BURNSIDE mix memory and imagination.
03 LAST	Dark Thoughts	20001213	20030101	An audio essay looking at the spiritual and elemental aspects of darkness, taking us from infant fear of the dark, through a universe filled with dark matter, and ending with beliefs about a black underworld of the afterlife. New poems are performed by RUTH PADEL and Collete Bryce.