No photographer has captured such a complete portrait of rural Britain in the late twentieth century as Fay Godwin, using a camera rather than a brush to continue a centuries-old British tradition of landscape artistry. This programme travels with her as she charts her personal vision of the British countryside – one that finds beauty not only in the grandeur of mountains and mists but also in the bleak landscape surrounding a nuclear power station.
Marguerite Duras
The distinguished French novelist and film-maker, who died in 1996, talks frankly about the hardship and romance of her childhood in Indo-China. She discusses how her early experiences have haunted her life and why she has returned to them repeatedly in her work, most notably in her best-selling novel, The Lover, which won the coveted Prix Goncourt. The programme features clips from her films and illustrated readings from her books.