TRACKS:
1. KEVIN
RUSHBY – Author of recently published book on ‘Paradise’.
Click here to listen to the track, duration: 4’00
2. LATIN
AMERICAN ELDERS DANCE GROUP
Recording made at Ringcross Community Centre where members of the dance group meet and rehearse.
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3.
PAYMAN JABERI – IRANIAN POLITICAL PRISONER
Now
living in West London.
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4.
JOHN CLAYTON AND RICHARD CARTER
Two members of the cast of Paradise discuss quotations during rehearsal at Stratford Circus.
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5. EILEEN HOBBS - LIDO AND POND SWIMMER CAMDEN.
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, duration: 3’ 22”
6. DR. GEORGE MCGAVIN - EXPLORER AND ENTOMOLOGIST.
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, duration: 6’ 06”
7. PUPIL AT HEAVER'S FARM PRIMARY SCHOOL, CROYDON.
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, duration: 1’ 11”
Quotes
I
have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge
Luis Borges (1899 - 1986) Argentine poet, short-story writer.
In "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said," ed. Robert
Byrne, 1988.
If
one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita
Khrushchev (1894 - 1971) Russian communist leader. In "Time
Magazine," 6 Jan 1958.
It
is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which
will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilised taste.
Evelyn
Waugh (1903 - 1966) English novelist. Ambrose, in "Put
Out More Flags," ch. 1, sct. 7, 1942.
It
is better to be a young June Bug than an old Bird of Paradise.
Mark
Twain (1835 - 1910) US novelist, journalist, river pilot
The
mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven a hell,
a hell a heaven.
John
Milton (1608 - 1674) English poet, essayist
Satan,
in "Paradise Lost," bk. 1.
Same
old slippers, Same old rice, Same old glimpse of paradise.
William
James (1842-1910)
Goethe
‘Memories are a Paradise from which you can not be expelled’.
