1.   Bill Sims, whom we learn is a blues singer in the second episode and whose plaintive voice is heard throughout the series singing original compositions, is black.

2.   About a year ago, I was lying in bed listening to the radio when I heard this remarkable woman singing jazz.

3.   He heard birds singing, then noticed a white, shining cloud and around it a rainbow of colors.

4.   Not her prayers, she insisted, but ones she had heard defiantly sung by a busload of women and children on their way to the gas chambers.

5.   Some hear singing.

6.   When her father died, she thought she heard birds singing in classical Greek, as Septimus imagines in the park.