The Beauty of Everyday Things
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Poet Ian McMillan has a gift for the art of small pleasures; the joy of close observation; revelling in everyday things, places and encounters; describing and re-describing them endlessly. In the company of fellow poets Helen Mort, Steve Ely and Dave Green he takes us to ordinary places that fascinate him: a railway platform with a striking red bench, on a bus journey, to a village cafe, and a local museum of curiosities; where we discover they can be portals into different ways of thinking, of feeling, and of being, where anything can happen, where the ordinary can become the extraordinary if we simply open our eyes and our ears.
Presented by Ian McMillan
Produced by Cecile Wright
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Vanessa Kasule. If you love unique documentaries, |
| 0:46.8 | this is the podcast for you. Each week you'll find two new episodes to discover. Here |
| 0:52.4 | comes something unusual, charming and seriously fascinating. |
| 0:57.0 | Early straw. |
| 1:01.0 | Bird song meets and greets me. Light is starting to wash the sky's face. |
| 1:08.3 | A bag of breezes has been opened and they're escaping. A man walks past me so quickly he almost begins to fly. |
| 1:17.6 | That wide river of fallen pink blossom. |
| 1:29.2 | There really is something magical about this early stroll. |
| 1:35.0 | It's as though you've cracked the day's egg open. And just walking around these places that are so familiar, |
| 1:40.0 | they remind me of the beauty of the everyday. |
| 1:45.0 | After all, in the end, that bus shelter is just a bus shelter. |
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