Listen "Windows"
Episode Synopsis
The minutiae of the everyday frame, shape and colour our lives. Joanna Robertson lives in Paris, and finds that the views from her fourth-floor flat have a real influence on her daily life. Looking out over the neighbourhood of Montparnasse, her windows let her eye and mind wander over the sites of much recent and not so recent cultural history. Former residents whose residences she can still see, range from Irish playwright Samuel Beckett to Austro-Hungarian writer Joseph Roth. And, following in the footsteps of painter John Constable, Joanna too goes "skying", as he called it: observing the sky and its cloudscapes through the window. What's beyond the glass is both separate from, yet also inextricably part of her life. Written and presented by Joanna Robertson
Producer: Arlene Gregorius
Editor: Penny Murphy
Sound engineer: Nigel Appleton
Production Coordinator: Janet Staples
Producer: Arlene Gregorius
Editor: Penny Murphy
Sound engineer: Nigel Appleton
Production Coordinator: Janet Staples
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