S8E5 Romeo & Juliet Part 1

Season 13 Episode 7: featuring "All Creatures of Our God and King/ Canticle of the Sun", Matthew 6:25-34, "Hurt No Living Thing" by Christina Rossetti, "The Chimney-Swift's Home" from the Dooryard Stories by Clara Dillingham Pierson, "The Swallow" by Christina Rossetti, and Psalm ...  Show more

Featuring Psalm 139, Stories from "Among the Night People" by Clara Dillingham Pierson, "Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 in E flat major" by Chopin, "The Land of Nod" by Robert Louis Stevenson, a prayer from St. Francis of Assisi, and the Doxology. 

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Claire and I swoon over our favorite bits of Romeo and Juliet, and discuss why this play is not a cautionary tale of unbridled passion and the excesses of youth, but rather a hymn to the redemptive powers of love itself. 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Shakespeare's famous tragedy, written in the early 1590s after a series of histories and comedies. His audience already knew the story of the feuding Capulets and Montagues in Verona and the fate of the young lovers from their rival houses, ...  Show more