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 and produced by Simon Richardson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2017. Show less