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Last broadcast on Tue, 11 Aug 2009, 11:30 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only).
Synopsis
Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing.
Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood chooses some of the pieces of writing which inspire her, from Alice in Wonderland to Bertrand Russell. The readers are David Morrissey and Lucy Briers.
Westwood exploded onto the fashion scene at the beginning of the 1970s, the decade whose look she would do so much to create. Since then she has been consistently and uncompromisingly original in her designs, moving from anarchy and pornography to a deep interest in classic British tailoring. In a programme recorded at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk, Vivienne presents an eclectic mixture of readings which have influenced her.
Vivienne Westwood's choices
The Three-Cornered Hat
from Ballet by Arnold Haskell
Published by Pelican Books
Love’s Labours Lost, Act 5 Scene 2
Shakespeare
Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
Published by HarperPerennial
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
from Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
(Non copyright)
The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
Published by Pimlico
Dido, Queen of Carthage (play)
by Christopher Marlowe
(non copyright)
Hammer by Sara Stockbridge
Published by Chatto & Windus
The Vanishing Face of Gaia
by James Lovelock
Published by Allen Lane
Broadcast
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Tue 11 Aug 200911:30
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