Documenting through photography and poetry
Matthew Sweet talks to Ken Burns about his Vietnam War documentary, Sasha Dugdale reads from her award winning poem, Joy, and Kate Flint explains the magic of flash photography.
Matthew Sweet discusses the Vietnam War with the film maker Ken Burns who has spent the last decade making a monumental documentary about America's ill fated war in South East Asia. The award winning poet, Sasha Dugdale, reads from her latest collection, Joy; and Kate Flint traces the history of flash photography from its origins in the nineteenth century to Weegee and Gordon Parks in the twentieth and Hiroshi Sugimoto and Martin Parr today
The Vietnam War - a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is released by PBS as a 10 disc DVD set.
Joy by Sasha Dugdale is published by Carcanet .
Flash! Photography, writing and Surprising Illumination by Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California is out now.
Producer: Zahid Warley
Main Image: U.S. Troops On Patrol In Vietnam, June 1966. Credit: Hulton Archive /Getty Images.
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Podcast: Ken Burns – Flash photography - Joy
The Vietnam War, poetry and flash photography with Ken Burns, Sasha Dugdale & Kate Flint.
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Ken Burns talking about his documentary - The Vietnam War
Duration: 29:09
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Kate Flint extended interview
Duration: 18:34
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Matthew Sweet |
| Interviewed Guest | Ken Burns |
| Interviewed Guest | Sasha Dugdale |
| Interviewed Guest | Kate Flint |
| Producer | Zahid Warley |
Broadcast
- Thu 30 Nov 2017 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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