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Sunday Feature: Dark Arcadias

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Dark Arcadias

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Dark Arcadias, Episode 1

Adam Nicolson explores ideas of Arcadia in the work of Hesiod, Virgil and Horace.

Adam Nicolson presents an exploration of humankind's relationship with ideas of Arcadia, as seen in the work of work of Hesiod, Virgil and Horace.

Adam Nicolson presents the first of a two-part exploration of humankind's relationship with nature, told through the cultural accounts of the arcadian wild we have made. This is a journey from the cave paintings of Chauvet in France to the Cape Farewell - artists as eco-warriors - project. To be human is to construct arcadias: of the mind and for real, escapes and escape routes. Culture is made in the recognition of the gap between wildness and the self. But accounts of the gap are made on and of the earth, and they cannot be heavenly. So arcadia is always dark. Death lives at its heart. This is what the cave paintings describe and the melting ice maps tell. Et in Arcadia ego. 

Producer: Tim Dee

First broadcast in July 2011.

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Adam Nicolson presents an exploration of humankind's relationship with ideas of arcadia

Adam Nicolson presents an exploration of humankind's relationship with ideas of arcadia, as seen in culture, from the cave paintings of Chauvet in France to the Cape Farewell

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