PATCH WORK: A LIFE AMONGST CLOTHES
by Claire Wilcox
read by Pamela Todd
running time 6hrs 30mins
Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. Here, she turns her curator's eye to the fabric of life itself, tugging at the threads of memory: a cardigan worn by a child, a tin button box, the draping of a curtain, a roll of lace, a pin hidden in a seam. Through these intimate and compelling close-ups, we see how the stories and the secrets of clothes measure out the passage of time, our gains and losses, and the way we use them to unravel and write our histories.