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Andrew Marr

Anish Kapoor

Lucie Green

Ann Wroe

Martin Ward

Katy Hickman

Start the Week: Anish Kapoor on Light and Dark

Anish Kapoor on Light and Dark

25/04/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Anish Kapoor on Light and Dark

Anish Kapoor, Lucie Green, Ann Wroe and Martin Ward are with Andrew Marr.

Anish Kapoor, Lucie Green, Ann Wroe and Martin Ward join Andrew Marr to discuss light and dark.

On Start the Week the sculptor Anish Kapoor talks to Andrew Marr about his fascination with voids and black holes, and his excitement at the latest technological advances in deepest black: vantablack. The astrophysicist Martin Ward explains his research into supermassive black holes and why we're finding more of them, while the solar physicist Lucie Green journeys to the centre of the sun where each photon takes hundreds of thousands of years to reach the surface, but just eight minutes to shine as light on the Earth. Writer Ann Wroe walks on the Downs to experience how light affects Nature, and she turns to the artists to meditate on the nature of light.
Producer: Katy Hickman

Picture credit: Anish Kapoor.

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