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• Child of Ardoyne
• City Messengers
• Dreaming of Osama
• Enter the Garden: A Portrait of Toru Takemitsu
• Falling For Francoise
• Father and Son
• Ghost Town
• Hark! An Acoustic Archaeology of Elizabethan England
• Heartbreakers: the story of all-girl Zep
• Heel Toe Step Together
• Hook, Line and Singer
• i-shrine
• Internet Sleuths
• Lance Corporal Baronowski's Vietnam
• Leonard and Marianne
• Life After Vietnam
• Lonely Nights
• Make Perhaps This Out Sense of Can You
• Mother's Mountain
• No Brakes, No Fear
• Padre Skinner's War
• Peggy Seeger: In Her Prime
• Poetry, Texas
• Rhapsody in Bohemia
• Riot Grrrls
• Rock's DNA
• Roller Girls
• Songs Your Godmother Should Know
• Sounding Post
• Still Points, Turning Worlds
• Studs Terkel - The Last Touch
• The Blackbird - The Life and Legacy of Delia Murphy
• The Diving Venus
• The Listening Post: Sybil Phoenix
• The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
• The Voices of Robert Wyatt
• Twitterpated
• Unbuilding Detroit
• Under Jacques Demy's Umbrella
• Vienna and the Shadow of the Third Man
• Warsaw Variations
• What's Cooking: A Portrait of the Kitchen Sisters - Part One
• What's Cooking: A Portrait of the Kitchen Sisters - Part Two
• William Thompson IV's War

Extras

• A Time of Evening
• Animation: Dee Dee Conover
• Animation: Jack and Jeffrey Lewis
• Animation: Short Cuts Ident
• Curated: My Share of the Sky
• Rhapsody of Light
• Short Cuts: Can't Rewind the Past - Into the Wild
• Short Cuts: Cerys Matthews - Lost for Words
• Short Cuts: Deborah Moggach - The Comfort of Strangers
• Short Cuts: Ignatz and Krazy Kat - Divided we Stand
• Short Cuts: Neil Brand - Lost for Words
• Stevie Wonder plays Sir Duke
• Studs and Jimmy

About

Produced by Alan Hall
Duration: 27'30"

First broadcast 31st May 2010 on BBC Radio 4, repeated 8th January 2011

An encouragement to daydream and an examination of the benefits of enhancing one's powers of concentration.  This feature examines what we've lost in an age of short attention spans, multi-tasking and lives refracted through myriad media.  And it reveals what can be gained from reclaiming both the power of concentration and a relishing of moments of reverie.

Featuring the voices of Kieran McFeely (aka Simple Kid), Canon Lucy Winkett and Headmaster David Boddy.