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The Essay
Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.
Colin Thubron
13 mins; February 06, 2017
Skin
13 mins; February 03, 2017
Black and White: Messrs Smith and Carlos and Norman
14 mins; February 02, 2017
Black and White: Yin and Yang
14 mins; February 01, 2017
Black and White: Words on the Page
14 mins; January 31, 2017
Black and White: Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics
14 mins; January 30, 2017
The Essay - Gun Culture -The Howth Mauser
13 mins; January 27, 2017
The Essay - Gun Culture - Sniper
13 mins; January 26, 2017
The Essay: Gun Culture: Pistols At Dawn
13 mins; January 25, 2017
The Essay: Gun Culture: Gotham's Gun Baron
13 mins; January 24, 2017
Taking Aim - Renaissance-style
13 mins; January 23, 2017
Billy Liar
13 mins; January 20, 2017
This Sporting Life
13 mins; January 19, 2017
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
13 mins; January 18, 2017
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
13 mins; January 17, 2017
Room at the Top
13 mins; January 14, 2017
Cornerstones: Chalk
13 mins; January 13, 2017
Cornerstones: Fire Rocks
13 mins; January 12, 2017
Cornerstones:Coal
13 mins; January 11, 2017
Cornerstones:Millstone
13 mins; January 10, 2017
Cornerstones: Quartz
13 mins; January 09, 2017
Bethany Bell
13 mins; January 06, 2017
Tom McKinney
13 mins; January 05, 2017
Gillian Moore
13 mins; January 04, 2017
Stephen Johnson
13 mins; January 03, 2017
Sarah Walker
13 mins; January 02, 2017
The Further Realm: Episode 5
15 mins; December 16, 2016
The Further Realm: Episode 4
15 mins; December 15, 2016
The Further Realm: Episode 3
15 mins; December 14, 2016
The Further Realm: Episode 2
15 mins; December 13, 2016
The Further Realm: Episode 1
14 mins; December 13, 2016
Time
13 mins; December 09, 2016
Books
13 mins; December 09, 2016
Politics
13 mins; December 07, 2016
Words
13 mins; December 05, 2016
Memory
13 mins; December 05, 2016
Dear Agatha Christie...
13 mins; November 11, 2016
Dear Virginia Woolf...
13 mins; November 10, 2016
Dear George Eliot...
13 mins; November 09, 2016
Dear Jonathan Swift...
13 mins; November 08, 2016
Dear Geoffrey Chaucer...
13 mins; November 07, 2016
Sir Richard Eyre
14 mins; November 04, 2016
Tacita Dean
13 mins; November 03, 2016
Ben Anderson
13 mins; November 02, 2016
Pauline Black
13 mins; November 01, 2016
David Simon
14 mins; October 31, 2016
Novelist Kit de Waal reflects on the architecture of the prison where she worked.
13 mins; October 14, 2016
Queensferry Crossing, Scotland
13 mins; October 13, 2016
Chesterfield's Crooked Spire, Derbyshire
13 mins; October 12, 2016
Impington College, Cambridge
13 mins; October 11, 2016
288a Main Road
13 mins; October 11, 2016
The Rise and Fall of the Hairdresser
19 mins; October 01, 2016
Strindberg and 'the Woman Question'
19 mins; October 01, 2016
Telephone Terrors
21 mins; October 01, 2016
Partitioned Memories
21 mins; October 01, 2016
Food: Are We What We Eat?
20 mins; October 01, 2016
Marina Lewycka - Up the Eiffel Tower
12 mins; September 30, 2016
Gervase Phinn: On the Camino de Santiago
13 mins; September 29, 2016
Edwina Currie: A Ferry Across the Mersey
13 mins; September 28, 2016
Michael Rosen: On the Trail of DH Lawrence
13 mins; September 27, 2016
Lisa Appignanesi: A Visit to the Savoy Hotel
12 mins; September 26, 2016
Poet Kenneth Steven on the Scottish islands
13 mins; September 23, 2016
Poet Kenneth Steven reflects on Scottish island life
13 mins; September 22, 2016
Poet Kenneth Steven reflects on Scottish island life
13 mins; September 21, 2016
Poet Kenneth Steven on Scottish island life
13 mins; September 20, 2016
Poet Kenneth Steven reflects on Scottish island life
13 mins; September 19, 2016
Donald Sturrock on the events that made the man and writer
13 mins; July 15, 2016
Michael Rosen on the exuberance of Dahl's poetry
13 mins; July 14, 2016
Laura Dockrill on Dahl's heroine Matilda
13 mins; July 14, 2016
Jeremy Dyson on the delicious lure of Dahl's adult fiction
13 mins; July 14, 2016
Frank Cottrell Boyce on flying and myth-making
13 mins; July 11, 2016
Daljit Nagra - On your 'A 1940 Memory'
13 mins; July 06, 2016
Jackie Kay - Private Joseph Kay
12 mins; July 06, 2016
Bill Manhire - Known unto God
13 mins; July 06, 2016
Yrsa Daley-Ward - When your mother calls you, come
13 mins; July 06, 2016
Paul Muldoon - July 1st 1916, with the Ulster Division
13 mins; July 05, 2016
Get Playing: Alexander McCall Smith on the saxophone and the Really Terrible Orchestra
13 mins; June 10, 2016
Get Playing: Peter Bradshaw's electric guitar
13 mins; June 09, 2016
Get Playing: Poet Fiona Sampson on playing the violin
13 mins; June 08, 2016
Get Playing: Joanne Harris on playing the flute and bass guitar
12 mins; June 07, 2016
Alistair McGowan on playing the Piano
13 mins; June 06, 2016
The Art of Storytelling: Emma Smith
14 mins; June 03, 2016
The Art of Storytelling: David Crystal
14 mins; June 02, 2016
The Art of Storytelling: Clemency Burton Hill
13 mins; June 01, 2016
The Art of Storytelling: Jon Gower
14 mins; May 31, 2016
The Art of Storytelling: Edmund de Waal
13 mins; May 30, 2016
Lines of Work: Gardener Jackie Bennett on Francis Bacon
13 mins; May 27, 2016
Lines of Work: Journalist Helen Lewis on John Milton
13 mins; May 26, 2016
Lines of Work: Soldier Harry Parker on Ulysses S Grant
12 mins; May 25, 2016
Lines of Work: Theatre Critic Susannah Clapp on Oscar Wilde
13 mins; May 25, 2016
Lines of Work: Teacher Francis Gilbert on Rousseau
13 mins; May 25, 2016
Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare Beyond London
13 mins; April 29, 2016
Shakespeare 400: Freedom of Speech or 'Nothing' - King Lear and Contemporary India
13 mins; April 28, 2016
Shakespeare 400: Wolf All? - Shakespeare and Food in Renaissance England
13 mins; April 27, 2016
Shakespeare 400. Joan Fitzpatrick on Wolf All? Shakespeare and food
13 mins; April 27, 2016
Shakespeare 400: Undiscovered Countries - Shakespeare and the Nation
13 mins; April 26, 2016
Shakespeare 400. James Loxley on Undiscovered Countries: Shakespeare and the Nation
13 mins; April 26, 2016
Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare and the Suffragettes
13 mins; April 25, 2016
Minds at War: Sean O'Casey's "The Silver Tassie"
13 mins; April 15, 2016
Minds at War: Father Browne's war photograph
13 mins; April 14, 2016
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