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Against Our Ruin

Hayden Lorimer, from the ruins of a modern architectural masterpiece, asks poets, thinkers and entropy tourists why we love fragments and scraps more than finished art works.

Hayden Lorimer, from the ruins of a modern architectural masterpiece on the banks of the River Clyde, asks poets, thinkers and entropy tourists why we love fragments and scraps more than finished art works. With Alice Oswald and Patrick McGuinness, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, and the music of Bob Dylan, Pere Ubu and Christian Marclay. These fragments I have shored against my ruins, wrote TS Eliot in The Waste Land. Are we all cultural vultures now? Producer: Tim Dee.

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30 minutes

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Wed 27 Dec 2017 21:00
成人论坛 Radio 4

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  • Thu 18 May 2017 11:30
    成人论坛 Radio 4
  • Wed 27 Dec 2017 21:00
    成人论坛 Radio 4