3. Inspiration
Marcus Sedgwick鈥檚 meditation on snow looks at how snow has inspired artists, musicians and filmmakers. Read by Jonathan Firth.
Of all weathers, snow is the one that has always affected the author Marcus Sedgwick the most.
Five years ago, he and his partner bought a mountain house, an old chalet d鈥檃lpage high in the Haute Savoie of eastern France.
Marcus Sedgwick muses on why snow is so powerful to our imagination and so transformative.
This episode explores how snow has inspired artists, musicians and filmmakers looking at the vividly 'cold' paintings of Bruegel, Schubert's beautiful but bleak Winterreise, and Werner Herzog's Of Walking in Ice created as he walked from Munich to Paris in late November to visit the dying Lottie Eisner.
Abridged by Katrin Williams
Read by Jonathan Firth.
Producer: Julian Wilkinson
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in December 2016.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Author | Marcus Sedgwick |
| Reader | Jonathan Firth |
| Abridger | Katrin Williams |
| Producer | Julian Wilkinson |
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Wed 28 Dec 2016 09:45麻豆社 Radio 4 FM- Thu 29 Dec 2016 00:30麻豆社 Radio 4
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