1. Mountains
John Berger’s most personal book - part poetry collection, memoir and love letter. Read by Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter.
**** John Berger joins 4 Extra’s 100 Club, born 5th November 1926. He died in 2017 aged 90.
Simon McBurney reads John Berger's most personal book: part-essay, part-poetry collection, part-memoir and love-letter.
McBurney also shares memories of Berger and the house and landscape that inspired the book in the early 1980s.
We first meet Berger in his beloved Haute-Savoie mountains, as he crosses the frontier into Italy and begins a rumination on human conceptions of time, memory, poetry and art, specifically the paintings of Rembrandt.
Harriet Walter reads his poetry.
Abridged in five parts and produced by Simon Richardson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2017.
On radio
More episodes
Previous
You are at the first episode
See all episodes from And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger
![]()
The Politics of Art
Tim Marlow looks at how the BBC TV series Ways of Seeing shook up the art world.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | Simon McBurney |
| Reader | Harriet Walter |
| Author | John Berger |
| Abridger | Simon Richardson |
| Producer | Simon Richardson |
Broadcasts
Mon 3 Apr 201709:45BBC Radio 4 FM- Tue 4 Apr 201700:30BBC Radio 4
- Mon 14 Feb 202214:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 15 Feb 202202:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 2 Nov 202608:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 2 Nov 202613:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 2 Nov 202619:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 3 Nov 202603:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
