And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 7^th Apr 2017, 09:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 19^th Feb 2022, 02:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

John Berger explores the work of his favourite painter, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

Simon McBurney concludes Berger's most personal book: part essay, part poetry collection, part memoir and love letter.

McBurney also shares memories of John Berger and the house and landscape that inspired the book in the early 1980s.

Harriet Walter reads his poetry.

Abridged and produced by Simon Richardson.

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