“In the great prison where I was then incarcerated, I was merely the figure and the letter of a little cell in a long gallery. One of a thousand lifeless numbers, as of a thousand lifeless lives,” wrote Oscar Wilde in De Profundis, a long letter addressed to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas whilst enduring his brutal confinement in Reading Gaol in 1897. Over a century later, Reading Prison was opened to the public for the first time for Inside, an exhibition orchestrated by James Lingwood and Michael Morris with 30 international artists, performers and writers in 2016. Writer, director and performer Neil Bartlett, and writer and theatre-maker Gillian Slovo recall their experiences of the prison, the exhibition and their own contributions; Bartlett’s reading of Wilde’s De Profundis in the prison chapel, and Slovo’s letter to her mother Ruth First, who had been locked up in solitary confinement by the apartheid regime in South Africa.

HERE IS WHERE WE MEET is a sequence of conversations conducted by James Lingwood and Michael Morris, co-directors of Artangel from 1991 until 2023.

The theme music for the series is written and performed by PJ Harvey.