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Podcast: Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson
Episode: 28: Rowan Williams, Shakespeare, and Doing Bach Badly
Description: Peter and Susannah have a long, polyphonic conversation with Rowan Williams about his new collection of plays, Shakeshafte and Other Plays; about a Christianity that can accommodate the whole of the world; about the poet David Jones, the artist Eric Gill, and the destructiveness of aesthetic fundamentalism.Then they turn to a discussion of the war, and of the role of art in a time of war. The archbishop closes in a prayer for peace and justice.Peter and Susannah then speak with their colleague Maureen Swinger about her piece “Doing Bach Badly,” about the hist...