See below for slowly spoken German news link, exploded passage inspiration, and to the “Ways of Seeing Episode” that it maps.

Slowly spoken German news link: Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten    Täglich von Montag bis Samstag findet ihr hier aktuelle Tagesnachrichten der DW – langsam und verständlich gesprochen. Neben der Audio-Datei zum Herunterladen (MP3) gibt es auch den vollständigen Text zum Mitlesen.

Exploded passage inspiration: not a passage, per se, but a map (discovered by Andrew; ask him re source!) of John Berger’s remarkable television episode Ways of Seeing, which is a reworking of Benjamin’s argument in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”

And a link to the Berger episode, which, again, is an ‘exploded’ tele-version of Benjamin’s essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk&list=PLlhSx0L1hpaGKfq1qXe1vWUhG1EgIN9Yf