"No Quiet Place" - by Giles Swayne: Partial text of excerpt "RST" Audio
	Alphabet of life with xylophones	Alphabet of hazards and disasters	CHORUS (Perry Text)	Soprano 1 (Spoken and sung)	Soprano 2 (Spoken and sung)
R	Rabbit, raccoon, ragged robin, ragweed, ragworm, ragwort….
		Radiation, radioactivity, rain-forest, reforestation, reprocessing, resettlement, Rhine, routine radioactive discharges	The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last sigh
			And the wind must also give our children the spirit of life
			Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine-needle, every sandy shore, Every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory of my people
S	Sable, sable antelope, sage, sail-fish, saki, salmon….	Sahel famine, salinisation, Sandoz fire, sedimentation, seed-pesticide connection, Sellafield, Seveso, Sizewll, sub-lethal pollution, synergy, synthetic organic chemicals
					In the early hours of November 1st 1986, a fire broke out in a warehouse at the Sandoz chemical factory near Basel, Switzerland.
				The Seveso accident occurred in 1976 when a vat used in the manufacture of hexachlorophene exploded. A cloud of dioxin was released in th explosion, contaminating 18 square kilometres of surrounding countryside, and necessitating the evacuation of more than 900 people. In the year following the accident, the rate of birth defects increased by more than 40 percent.
					As firemen played their hoses on the warehouse, chemicals released by the exploding drums were washed into the Rhine. More than 30 tons of pesticides, fungicides and chemical dyes entered the river, rendering it lifeless for 100-200 kilometres.
			We are part of the earth and it is part of us. Our dead never forget the beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
				Hollywood characters
					Sweet, sweet, sugar-sweet, baby-sweet
			We love the earth as a new-born loves its mother's heart-beat. When the last red man has vanished from the earth, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud, moving across the prairie, these shores and forests will still hold the spirit of my people.
				Sugar baby, Sweetheart, heartbeat	Honey baby, sweet heart, heart-beat
T	Taipan, talipot, tamarind, tamarisk, tanager, tangerine	Taste additives, Third World debt, threatened species, Three Mile Island, tree diseases
				The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars	Our ways are different from your ways

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