Against Our Ruin

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Hayden Lorimer asks poets, thinkers and entropy tourists why we love fragments and scraps more than finished art works? From the ruins of a modern architectural masterpiece on the banks of the River Clyde. With: * Alice Oswald and Patrick McGuinness * Mark Ford and Seamus Perry With the music of: * Bob Dylan * Pere Ubu * Christian Marclay These fragments I have shored against my ruins, wrote TS Eliot in The Waste Land. Are we all cultural vultures now? Produced at BBC Bristol by Tim Dee. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.