A Kiss

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BBC Radio 4 - A Kiss

The poet Rachel Long explores the craft of capturing a kiss in writing.

In conversation with Caroline Bird, Richard Scott and Fleur Adcock, the poet Rachel Long explores the craft of writing a kiss.

"The memory of a kiss is so wonderfully unstable..."

In conversation with Caroline Bird, Richard Scott and Fleur Adcock, the poet Rachel Long explores the craft of writing a kiss. 

How might we hold the wordless intimacy of the act - its blurring of selves and disrupted time?

In this documentary we weave between fragmentary memories - sensual, funny, erotic... the kisses we describe over and over, the kisses we keep a secret.

Also featuring glimpses of kisses from Nadia Molinari, Ian Rawlinson, Sayre Quevedo and Laura Barton amongst others.

Photo credit: Amaal Said

Presented by Rachel Long
Produced by Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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