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Lost and Found: Ancient Egypt to Modern Art

Cultural discussion show. Andrew Marr with Simon Armitage, Cornelia Parker, Cyprian Broodbank and Aurelia Masson-Berghoff.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to the artist Cornelia Parker about the secrets revealed in found objects. Parker's latest exhibition at the Foundling Museum is inspired by the 18th Century tokens left with babies by their mothers. Simon Armitage finds a new way of telling the medieval poem Pearl, an allegorical story of grief and lost love. Archaeologist Cyprian Broodbank explains how Must Farm, the first landscape-scale investigation of deep Fenland, is transforming our understanding of Bronze Age life, while British Museum curator Aurelia Masson-Berghoff celebrates the finding of two lost Egyptian cities submerged at the mouth of the Nile for over a thousand years.
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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43 minutes

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Mon 23 May 2016 21:30

Cyprian Broodbank

is Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

AurΓ©lia Masson-Berghoff

is the lead curator for Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds.

Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds is on at the until 27 November.

Simon Armitage

is a poet, playwright and novelist and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield and at Oxford.

Pearl, translated by Simon Armitage, is published by Faber & Faber.

Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker is a sculptor and installation artist.

Cornelia has curated at the Foundling Museum in London which runs from 27 May - 4 September.

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest Simon Armitage
Interviewed Guest Cornelia Parker
Interviewed Guest Cyprian Broodbank
Interviewed Guest Aurelia Masson-Berghoff
Producer Katy Hickman

Broadcasts

  • Mon 23 May 2016 09:00
  • Mon 23 May 2016 21:30

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