Sunday Feature

Homer's Landscapes

Sunday 6 April 2008 21:50-22:35 (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:

2/3. The Iliad

Adam travels to Homer's Troy, walking the plains and visiting the ruins of its citadel, finding that although Homer is thought to have been blind, it is possible to directly map Homer's great poem of war onto the coastline of the Aegean, the beach of the Greek camp, the Scamander River and the hewn stone walls of Troy.

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

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