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Wolfgang Tillmans, Alan Kitching and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

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1 May 2016

Episode 356

50 minutes

Turner Prize-winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans explains his new posters series and why he’s campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU, we celebrate print with letterpress master Alan Kitching and talk to writer, landscape designer and preservationist Elizabeth Barlow Rogers about her new book ‘Green Metropolis’ and the allure of New York’s Central Park.

1 May 2016

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Chapter 1

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Chapter 1

Introduction

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Monocle’s Henry-Rees Sheridan joins Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound to break down the news agenda for the coming week.

9 minutes

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Chapter 2

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Photo: Karl Kolbitz

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Wolfgang Tillmans

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German fine-art photographer Wolfgang Tillmans is making his affection for the UK known with a new set of posters campaigning to keep the country in the EU. He explains the thinking behind his ideas to Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound.

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Chapter 3

14 minutes


Photo: Philip Sayer

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Chapter 3

Alan Kitching

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Alan Kitching is a typographer and letterpress-printing master whose work has appeared across major newspapers and beyond. He joins the Weekly team to talk through his new book ‘Alan Kitching: A Life in Letterpress’ and the exhibition of the same name currently on at Somerset House.

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Chapter 4

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Photo: Michael Lionstar

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Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

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Since the 1970s the green spaces of New York’s Central Park have had preservationist, landscape designer and writer Elizabeth Barlow Rogers on their side. She joins us to discuss her new book ‘Green Metropolis: The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History and Design’, and why Central Park is still a calming escape in the centre of the city.

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