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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Essex
Description: Thanks in part to the birth of those enduring caricatures - Essex Man & Essex Girl - in the 1990s, this is a county that has struggled to break free from a whole raft of stereotypes and assumptions. Matthew Sweet and his guests - all Essex residents - are here to present a more nuanced, complicated and historically rich vision of this woefully misunderstood part of England.Tim Burrows has written The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English County
Elsa James is an artist whose work includes the Forgotten Black Essex project
Simon Heffer is a...