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[[A Year I Remember]] is a piece of music that Delia created for ''[[A Silence filled with Greek]]'', which appears to be a one-off programme by Michael Ayrton, produced by Douglas Cleverdon<ref>[http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/bbc.htm University of Delaware Library catalogue for BBC Third Programme Radio Scripts 1940-1969, Manuscript Collection Number 332], Item F134, cat.no. TLO 50/DA495.</ref>. Its script is dated 17 Jan 1967.<ref>The catalogue of Box 20 of [http://indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/test/index.php?p=cleverdon2inv&i=5 the archive of [[Douglas Cleverdon]]'s scripts at the Lilly Library]</ref>

In the programme,
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British painter, sculptor and author Michael Ayrton offers a picture of his first experiences of Greece.<ref name=kingston>[http://newspaperarchive.com/jm/kingston/kingston/kingston-gleaner/1968/03-24/page-61 Programme guide in the Kingston Gleaner Newspaper Archive: March 24, 1968 - Page 61]</ref>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
and Ayrton is quoted as saying
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I'm not, by the way, a sober and scholarly figure nervously divorced
from my own time or in love with the past. I like street noises.
I am as much committed to twentieth-century politics as Pericles insisted
Athenians should be in the fifth century. Furthermore, the two parts--or the many parts--of my illusions are indivisible.
When I am nailed by the gods and my insides are drawn into the intestinal maze of
Daedalus, my feet remain firmly in the present and I am aware of what is around me.
<BR>
[...]
<BR>
[I am] a sort of human truffle-hound nosing for some hidden or disguised meaning in landscape long inhabited. I don't mean that I am an archaeologist or a historian, but rather that I am a sort of trawling tourist, equipped with an echo-sounder.<ref>[http://books.google.it/books?id=WQlh9oV5PywC&pg=PA74 Jacob E. Nyenhuis, ''Myth and the Creative Process: Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus, the Maze Maker'' (2003), p.74 on Google Books.]</ref>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
and it may include a taped conversation with Basil Wright.<ref>[http://books.google.it/books?id=IXRIAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Silence+filled+with+greek%22 Notes to p.287 of Justine Hopkins' ''Michael Ayrton: A Biography'' (1994) on Google Books.]</ref>

Douglas Cleverdon's papers include several works entitled ''A Year I Remember'':
* ''A Year I Remember'' - 1913, by Rose Macaulay. June 4, 1950<ref name=box22>[http://indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/test/index.php?p=cleverdon2inv&i=5 The Lilly library's index of Cleverdon Manuscripts], box 22.</ref>
* ''A Year I Remember'' - 1939, by Frances Watson. Dec. 30, 1964<ref name=box22/> produced by Douglas Cleverdon.<ref>[http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/bbc.htm BBC Third Programme Radio Scripts 1940-1969] at The University of Delaware, item F101.</ref>

[[A Year IR]] is mentioned in Delia's handwritten list of pieces that she was thinking of reusing for the [[Brighton Festival]].<ref>[[DD082814]]</ref>

=Availability=
* Broadcast on the 17th January 1967 at 7:30pm on the BBC Third Programme.<ref>The White Files' [http://whitefiles.org/rwx/rwslib.pdf rwslib.pdf]</ref>
* Broadcast on the 10th February 1967 on the BBC Third Programme.<ref>[http://books.google.it/books?id=IMxBAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Silence+filled+with+greek%22 ''The Listener'', volume 77, p.243, 16th February 1967 on Google Books]: "Michael Ayrton in 'A Silence Filled With Greek' (Third Programme, February 10) spoke of that 'special dimension of immortality' that the Greek landscape possesses [...]'".</ref>
* Broadcast on Sunday March 24th 1968 at 8:30 in Kingston, Jamaica, on radio station JBC.<ref name=kingston/>
* The BBC Sound Archive tape [[TRW 6568]]: ''A Year I Remember'' is not to be found.<ref name=TLL>The [[Tape Library List]]'s entry for [[TRW 6568]].</ref>

=References=
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