10.45pm - The Essay: Strange Strolls
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In the fourth of five programmes in which contemporary writers embark on walks of entertaining eccentricity, journalist, writer and keen walker Nat Segnit seeks recovery and retreat in the unseen mountains of Ibiza - a mysticism-inspired path once trodden by Walter Benjamin.
The name of the German philosopher Walter Benjamin, poser of a missing link between materialism and the transcendent, may best be associated by way of influence acknowledged in John Berger's magnificent "Ways of Seeing" TV documentary. I was initially attracted to this series while surfing my way through this week's Radio Times by the second in the series, broadcast last Tuesday.
4/5
In the fourth of five programmes in which contemporary writers embark on walks of entertaining eccentricity, journalist, writer and keen walker Nat Segnit seeks recovery and retreat in the unseen mountains of Ibiza - a mysticism-inspired path once trodden by Walter Benjamin.
The name of the German philosopher Walter Benjamin, poser of a missing link between materialism and the transcendent, may best be associated by way of influence acknowledged in John Berger's magnificent "Ways of Seeing" TV documentary. I was initially attracted to this series while surfing my way through this week's Radio Times by the second in the series, broadcast last Tuesday.
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