BBC Radio 4 on The Archers Omnibus

This Cultural Life from BBC Radio 4. I will never go into anything so deep like that again. The world's leading artistic figures reveal their creative influences. Disobey, disagree, disavow. I'm John Wilson and my recent guests have included the sculptor Anish Kapoor, photographer Annie Leibovitz, the actor Kristen Scott-Thomas. It has made me good at telling stories about people who have a secret suffering. And former children's laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce. If art's got one function, it's to point to what's wonderful and say, look, this is your world, it's insane. Listen to This Cultural Life on BBC Sounds.