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Free Thinking: Twilight

Twilight

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Poet Pascale Petit, photographer Jasper Goodall, Alexandra Harris, composer Sally Beamish.

How to capture dusk and dawn in photographs, the Ode to Evening published by William Collins in 1746, observing a black Jaguar at twilight, translating light into classical music.

Photographing at nightfall, capturing the sense of light in classical music, the charged body of a black Jaguar in the Amazon: Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough's guests - poet Pascale Petit, photographer Jasper Goodall, literary expert Alexandra Harris and composer Sally Beamish - discuss the way twilight has been reflected in their own work and that of writers and painters of the past.  

(Photo: Jasper Goodall)

Pascale Petit's collection Fauverie draws on her experiences of watching wildlife at both ends of the day.  Her most recent collection is Tiger Girl.
Jaspar Goodall has taken a series of images of trees called Twilight's Path which you can find out about on https://www.jaspergoodall.com/ 
Alexandra Harris's books include Weatherland, Romantic Moderns, Time and Place. She is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham and a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and AHRC to put academic research on the radio - leading to a feature for BBC Radio 3 on the art of Eric Ravilious, and a series of walking tours in the footsteps of Virginia Woolf  https://www.alexandraharris.co.uk/tv-radio 
Sally Beamish has written various compositions reflecting on light at the beginning and end of the day including Epilogue reflecting on a Quaker prayer meeting, Bridging the Day and Wild Swans inspired by the Yeats poem.  https://www.sallybeamish.com/ 

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting a series of programmes reflecting on twilight including a recent episode of the weekly curation of prose and poetry set alongside music Words and Music, which will be available on BBC Sounds for 28 days.

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