Sunday Feature

Homer's Landscapes

Sunday 30 March 2008 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

Adam Nicolson travels along the eastern Mediterranean, from the Ionian Sea to the western coast of Turkey to trace the origins of the poems at the root of modern European thought.

Duration:

45 minutes

Playlist:

1/3. The Poet and His World

Visiting the island of Chios, where Homer might have come from, and then travelling on to Troy and Ithaca and sailing the Aegean, Adam reads The Iliad and The Odyssey, to explore their landscapes and world from which these important epic poems emerged.

Sunday Feature

Episode and Playlist Information

• 27 Apr 08 The Splintered City
• 20 Apr 08 James Agee
• 13 Apr 08 Homer's Landscapes
• 6 Apr 08 Homer's Landscapes
• 30 Mar 08 Homer's Landscapes
• 23 Mar 08 Rites of Spring
• 16 Mar 08 Raymond Williams
• 9 Mar 08 Joined-Up Artists

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