麻豆约拍

Simon McBurney reads John Berger's most personal book: part essay, part poetry collection, part memoir and love letter.

McBurney also shares memories of Berger and the house and landscape that inspired the book in the early 1980s.

We first meet Berger in his beloved Haute-Savoie mountains, as he crosses the frontier into Italy and begins a rumination on human conceptions of time, memory, poetry and art, specifically the paintings of Rembrandt.

Harriet Walter reads his poetry.

Omnibus of five parts.

Abridged and produced by Simon Richardson.

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in April 2017.