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In Something Understood this week Mark Tully asks if we all have it within ourselves to be heroes, and how the heroic can be awakened within us. Is it possible to train ourselves to act heroically in a once-in-a-lifetime moment of crisis and how are we shaped by the heroic archetypes of myth and legend?

The readers were Emma Fielding and David Holt.

Readings and Music

Music 1: ‘Lament for Beowulf’ composed by Howard Hanson and performed by the Seattle Symphony. Available on the CD Symphony No. 4 Requiem, released by Delos.

Reading 1: Awakening the Heroes Within written by Carol S Pearson and published by Harper Collins.

Music 2: ‘Una Aventura de Don Quijote’ composed by Jesus Guridi and performed by Orquesta Sinfonica de Euskadi. Available on the CD Jesus Guridi 1886 – 1961, released by Claves Records.

Reading 2: ‘I’d Like to Save the World But…’ written by Brian Fewster. Available in the Poetry Review, Vol 87, No.3. Published by the Poetry Society.

Music 3: ‘The Great Song of Indifference’ performed by Bob Geldof. Released by Vertigo.

Reading 3: Burnt Shadows written by Kamila Shamsie. Published by Bloomsbury.

Music 4: ‘I Could Have Done More’ composed by John Williams. Available on Schindler’s List OST, released by MCA.

Reading 4: ‘Edith Cavell’ from Courage: Eight Portraits written by Gordon Brown. Published by Bloomsbury.

Reading 5:.’Our Inner Heroes Could Stop Another Abu Ghraib’ written by Philip Zimbardo. Published in the Guardian, 29th February 2008.

Music 5: ‘Solomon Browne’ performed by Seth Lakeman. Available on the CD Poor Man’s Heaven, released by Relentless.

Reading 6: ‘I Don’t Want to Live a Small Life’ written by Mary Oliver. Published by Bloodaxe.

Music 6: ‘Heroes Symphony’ composed by Phillip Glass. Available on the CD Heroes Symphony (The Music of Bowie and Eno), released by Point.

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