24/10/2011
Andrew Marr and Jarvis Cocker, Jez Butterworth, Melanie Challenger and Matthew White.
Start the Week · BBC Radio 4
October 24, 201142m 8s
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Show Notes
Andrew Marr talks to musician Jarvis Cocker about lyrics and the lyricism of the everyday; to playwright Jez Butterworth about his vision of bucolic myths and modern brutality in the English countryside; to poet Melanie Challenger about the extinction of species and also of ways of life and to Matthew White who catalogues and compares the brutality of humanity throughout the ages.
Producer: Eleanor Garland.