Start the Week
Start the Week
BBC Radio 4
Modernism with Ali Smith and Kevin Jackson
42 minutes Posted Oct 22, 2012 at 10:13 am.
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On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at the legacy of modernism. Kevin Jackson returns to 1922, the year he argues changed the literary world with publications of Joyce's Ulysses and TS Eliot's The Waste Land. And Ali Smith reveals how her writing today melds different forms to explore style, love, death and the art of writing. But Will Gompertz and the composer Julian Anderson argue that art and music respectively embraced modernism earlier and more profoundly than the world of literature.

Producer: Katy Hickman.