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Book of the Week: Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun

Book of the Week: Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun: Episode 4

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Chasing the Sun

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Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun

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Richard Cohen explores how the sun has inspired generations of painters.

Richard Cohen explores how many of the world's great artists have captured that gold disc in the sky. Read by Allan Corduner.

"Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the universe and that even the sun revolved around us...
Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are mere specks..."

Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc in the sky is now caught in five episodes...

4. Throughout the ages artists have caught the sun on canvas with astonishing results...

Reader Allan Corduner.

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Allan Corduner reads Richard Cohen's biography of the sun

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