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BBC Radio 3Thu 28 Jul 2011 19:50 BBC Radio 3
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Rob Cowan's selection of music includes Adams and Martinu. Plus Bach: Cantata, BWV34.
Duration: 20 minutes
In 1886, Vincent Van Gogh visited a Paris flea market and bought a pair of worn-out boots. They didn't fit. So he painted them instead.
Writer Ian Sansom investigates the artistic, cultural and philosophical history of shoes - from God instructing Moses to take off his sandals in front of the burning bush, to the cult of the Louboutin - and goes in search of a nice pair of handbenched English shoes.
He explores the Freudian shoe, fairy tale shoes, Van Gogh's boots (as interpreted by Heidegger and Derrida), Holocaust shoes, Jesus sandals, killer heels and poems and images of people traipsing and fleeing.
Producer Sara Davies.
Thu 28 Jul 2011 19:50 BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3Thu 28 Jul 2011 19:50 BBC Radio 3
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