Words and Music

This edition examines looking, one of the main modes of contact with the world and which can be tied up with joy or pain, with desire or despair, with judgement or disorientation. The complexities of looking are explored in this edition, with Ellie Piercy and Ben Miles reading from works by great poets including John Donne, William Shakespeare, Andrew Marvell, Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson, as well as philosophers David Hume and Jean-Paul Sartre and critics Dziga Vertov and Laura Mulvey. Music comes from Beethoven, Puccini, Prokofiev, Arvo Pärt and the Kinks.