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Simon McBurney on "And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos"

4 Extra Debut. Simon McBurney ponders on the themes and ideas in John Berger's book 'And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos'. From 2014.

Actor and director Simon McBurney of Theatre de Complicite describes how John Berger's "And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos" plays with ideas of connection, memory, narrative and mortality which are essential to his theatrical work.

"Berger digs in the vulnerable earth of human experience and joins the fragments he uncovers with an eye as sure as an astronomer, a gesture as gentle as a carpenter," McBurney says. This slim work has been a point of reference for his art and his life.

Producer: Smita Patel

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in January 2014.

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  • Wed 22 Jan 201422:45
    BBC Radio 3
  • Wed 22 Oct 201422:45
    BBC Radio 3
  • Mon 2 Nov 202615:45
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 2 Nov 202621:45
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