Radio address for October 14, 2010, released a few days late. Have you ever been pathetically but persistently pursued?

Although there is no final transcript for this episode, a smudgy typewritten draft of today’s address is available.

The poem at the end is The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins, about which my poetry book has this to say:

After the fantastic description of the bird in the first nine lines, Hopkins turns to the poem’s divine addressee [Jesus Christ] & asserts that His glory is a billion times greater. The comparison of Christ to a million-million predators is breathtaking enough, to be sure, but the final three lines are even more spectacular. In imagery drawn from accounts of the Crucifixion (“gall” and “gash”) and the Eucharist (gold-vermilion parallel to bread-wine, in turn parallel to flesh-blood), the ember sends out brilliant light.

Music cues are Quodlibet performed by the Kronos Quartet, Setting Out from the Sherlock Holmes Televsion Soundtrack, and Air Spirals by Richard Harvey.

Radio address for August 17, 2010: ‘Orange chocolate’ is one of those things that ought to be simple, but ended up being, for a long time, gnarly and dreadful. These are the kinds of things we need to get clear of.

Music theme is Farewell to Stromness by Peter Maxwell Davies – beginning with the Caliban bassoon quartet, and ending with the Philharmonia Orchestra version.

Radio address for August 9, 2010, written mainly so listeners will have a dim idea of what keeps me away in town these days.

The whistling bit is my own amateur cover of Such Great Heights. The last piece is a violin/cello duet from Musical Evenings in the Captain’s Cabin.

Although there is no final transcript of this episode, you can download a typewritten draft of today’s address.

Radio address for July 28, 2010. When we write the story, we sit in the seat of God, and our understanding of God betrays itself too well.

Music cues are Neptune, the Mystic from Holst’s The Planets, and The Pines of the Appian Way from The Pines of Rome by Respighi.

Radio address for March 27, 2010: a weather report of sorts. Nature always skips skips skips the beat. Ending music is from a recording of Nadaka & the Basavaraj Brothers: Live in Paris.

In addition to the plain text transcript linked above, you can download a typewritten draft of today’s address, and print it out and keep it in your filing cabinet like I do with the originals.

UPDATE: This is also relevant.