House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Pitcher, Fruit-Tree, Window: A radio hymn to the things around us inspired by the Duino Elegies of Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke, on BBC Radio 4

Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, written between 1912 and 1922, are often considered to be one of the cornerstones of European literature in the 20th Century.

Produced in a time of collapse and change, amidst political turmoil and spiritual flux, the poems grapple with what it means to be human, charting the soul’s ...