The Essay Episodes Episode guide
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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in the novel by Inez Holden
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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi
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Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
4/5 New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper
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Black and White: Yin and Yang
Xiaolu Guo remembers lessons learned from her father growing up in China.
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Black and White: Words on the Page
Writer Glyn Maxwell on whether we have become too black and white, and too binary.
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Black and White: Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics
Farrah Jarral talks about what it means to be fluent in something one doesn't understand
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Black and White: Messrs Smith and Carlos and Norman
Lindsay Johns explains the inspiration he draws from a black and white photo on his desk.
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Bettany Hughes on Helen of Troy
Bettany Hughes on her favourite fictional female. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018.
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4
Stephen Johnson considers how Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 thrilled the first audience
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Bede, the Father of English History
Scholar of the Anglo Saxons Lilian Groves explores the life and times of St Bede.
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Alfred the Great
Michael Wood discusses Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and king of the Anglo-Saxons.
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Aethelred the Unready
Simon Keynes discusses the life of the Anglo-Saxon monarch Aethelred.
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A family of witches
Emma Whipday explores the demonisation of single mothers in English witch trials.
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A City is not a Park
Des Fitzgerald is a sociologist at Cardiff Uni. researching health, illness & cities
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