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John Berger’s most personal book - part poetry collection, memoir and love letter. Read by Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter.

**** John Berger joins 4 Extra’s 100 Club, born 5th November 1926. He died in 2017 aged 90.

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.

Abridged in five parts and produced by Simon Richardson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2017.

15 minutes

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Next Monday 08:30
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Credits

Reader Simon McBurney
Reader Harriet Walter
Author John Berger
Abridger Simon Richardson
Producer Simon Richardson

Broadcasts

  • Mon 3 Apr 2017 09:45
    BBC Radio 4 FM
  • Tue 4 Apr 2017 00:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Mon 14 Feb 2022 14:00
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  • Tue 15 Feb 2022 02:00
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  • Next Monday 08:30
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  • Next Monday 13:30
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  • Next Monday 19:30
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  • Next Tuesday 03:30
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