Don McCullin on Norman Lewis
Photographer Sir Don McCullin chooses his old travel companion, journalist Norman Lewis. With Matthew Parris. From 2017.
In 1968 Norman Lewis wrote an article called Genocide in Brazil. The photographs that accompanied it were by Don McCullin.
Lewis later said that this one piece of journalism was the great achievement of his life. It led directly to the creation of Survival International and a change in the law relating to the treatment of indigenous people in Brazil.
Lewis is known as a brilliant writer - one of our best, said Graham Greene, 'not of any particular decade of our century'. He's best remembered for A Dragon Apparent and Naples '44.
Don McCullin didn't travel with Norman Lewis to Brazil, but they struck up an unexpected friendship. He was like my father, the great photographer says.
And in Norman Lewis's later years they worked together in Venezuela, Papua New Guinea and elsewhere. But McCullin didn't read many of his books. "I struggled through Naples '44" he admits. Yet his admiration for the way Lewis opened his eyes to the world remains undimmed.
Recorded on location at McCullin's Somerset farmhouse with Norman Lewis's biographer Julian Evans.
Presented by Matthew Parris.
Produced at 成人快手 Bristol by Miles Warde.
First broadcast on 成人快手 Radio 4 in August 2017.
Last on
More episodes
Credit
Role | Contributor |
---|---|
Presenter | Matthew Parris |
Broadcasts
- Tue 22 Aug 2017 16:30成人快手 Radio 4
- Fri 25 Aug 2017 23:30成人快手 Radio 4
- Thu 11 Nov 2021 18:30成人快手 Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 12 Nov 2021 00:30成人快手 Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 13 Nov 2021 07:30成人快手 Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 13 Nov 2021 17:30成人快手 Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 14 Nov 2021 05:30成人快手 Radio 4 Extra
Download this programme
Subscribe to this programme or download individual episodes.
Podcast
-
Great Lives
Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.