Fruits of the Earth
Thursday 27 March 2008 23:00-23:15 (Radio 3)
A series in which four writers contemplate why fertility has been such an important preoccupation for humanity and its art and ideas.
Playlist:
4/4. Writer Laura Cumming contemplates the curious nature of fertility today and argues that, despite a wealth of historical allusions to pregnancy, visual art has never fully turned its gaze on the subject.
Part of Radio 3's Rites of Spring season.