Tom Stoppard is perhaps the world’s leading, funniest and cleverest playwright. Ever since he hit the ground running in the 1960s with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, there has always been a streak of melancholy beneath the sparkling surface of his work. Now with his latest play, Leopoldstadt, he comes full circle and faces up to the pain and loss in his past. In this programme, he tells Alan Yentob his extraordinary story.

The programme tracks the creation of celebrated composer Sir George Benjamin's latest opera Lessons in Love and Violence, which premiered at the Royal Opera House this year.

The story of Vivian Maier a nanny in 60-70's New York and Chicago who, unbeknownst to many, had a secret passion for photography. Her incredible body of work, only discovered after her death, lives on and has established her as one of the master street photographers.
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从上世纪50年代开始，Vivian Maier就在工作之余用一台Rollei双反相机拍摄街景，直至2009年逝世，她一共留下了超过10万张胶片，完整记录下芝加哥、纽约和巴黎在过去40年中的变迁。
Vivian Maier的作品直到2007年才被人们发现，她的照片敏锐而直率地捕捉到人们所流露出的情感，城市化进程所带来的变化、不同宗教和文化群体的种种境遇，
也被她记录在胶片中。通过挖掘人们的集体记忆，Vivian Maier展现出生活中动人的一面，将再平凡不过的日常景象，转变为出色的生活纪实，
从某种意义上说，足以与William Klein、Cartier-Bresson这些当时最著名的街头摄影师比肩。
2007年在一场拍卖会上被电影制片人John Maloof拍得后重见天日，她遂被摄影界公认为是20世纪最伟大的摄影师之一。
值得一提的是，Vivian Maier生前才华横溢，却默默无闻做了40年保姆，去世后留下10万多张芝加哥街景和街头人像底片，
Vivian Maier的正式职业是一名保姆，她的所有拍摄都是在工作之外的业余时间里完成的，由于经济原因，绝大多数胶片都没有冲洗。
你不需要成为一名摄影师，一样可以成为一个出色的记录者。