In this opening episode, we join the dots between, inter alia, boredom, The Shining, Vilhelm Hammershoi's painting (Dust Motes Dancing in Sunbeams, 1901) and émigré poet and critic, Joseph Brodsky.

Notes and links:

• Music: 'Nuages' (Django Rheinhardt avec le Quintette Hot Club de France)
• "Midnight, the Stars and You", Ray Noble and His Orchestra
• 'Maison De Mes Rêves', Django Rheinhardt
• Ella Fitzgerald: 'I'm Beginning To See The Light'
• T. Humes, 'Loves Farewell' performed by Luciana Elizondo
• Mulatu Astatke - Tezeta (Nostalgia)
• Beethoven String Quartet No. 16 op. 135, slow movement, Busch Quartet
• Hauser & Wirth Unconscious Gestures
• BBC4 Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi
• 'In Praise of Boredom', Joseph Brodsky

All clips used either under fair usage or because they're out of copyright.

All other nonsense is my own. Neil Fitzgerald 2026.

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