John Berger: The Art of Looking

BBC Four

10:00 PM to 10:55 PM

Monday 2 November

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Portrait of the writer and artist in the week he would have turned 100, examining his influential outlook on life and art and his creative collaborations in a variety of mediums, with contributions from theatrical practitioner Simon McBurney, director Michael Dibb, visual artist John Christie, cartoonist Selcuk Demiral, photographer Jean Mohur and two of Berger's children - critic Katya and painter Yves. The film is bookended by Berger's experience of cataract removal surgery and rediscovery of the power of seeing