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19-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Meeting the Giants of Jazz; Ruby Braff
Critic Martin Gayford tells the stories of his encounters and friendships with five leading jazz musicians as a fan, an amateur music promoter and, latterly, as a journalist.
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18-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Meeting the Giants of Jazz; Marian McPartland
Critic Martin Gayford tells the stories of his encounters and friendships with five leading jazz musicians as a fan, an amateur music promoter and, latterly, as a journalist.
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17-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Meeting the Giants of Jazz: Doc Cheatham
Critic Martin Gayford tells the stories of his encounters and friendships with five leading jazz musicians as a fan, an amateur music promoter and, latterly, as a journalist.
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14-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Swimming Stories - Philip Hoare 13 March 15
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13-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Swimming Stories - Kamila Shamsie 12 March 15
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12-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Swimming Stories - Marcus O'Dair 11 March 15
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11-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Swimming Stories - Antonia Quirke 10 March 15
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10-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Swimming Stories - Christopher Hope 9th March 15
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07-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Unsung Heroines of Classical Music - Betty Freeman 6 Mar 15
Helen Wallace pays tribute to Betty Freeman, perhaps the greatest patron of modern classical music who supported John Cage, Steve Reich, John Adams, Philip Glass & Pierre Boulez
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06-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Unsung Heroines of Classical Music - Mary Gladstone 5 March 15
Dr Phyllis Weliver on Mary Gladstone, daughter of Prime Minister William Gladstone, who was a master of 'soft diplomacy' and brought music making to the heart of Downing Street
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05-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Unsung Heroines of Classical Music - Leopoldine Wittgenstein 4 March 15
Vienna Correspondent Bethany Bell's reassessment of the life of salonniere Leopoldine Wittgenstein, wife and mother who put music at the heart of her illustrious but febrile family
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04-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Unsung Heroines of Classical Music - Lady Maud Warrender 3 March 15
Kate Kennedy tells the story of Lady Maud Warrender. Aristocrat, lesbian, singer and influential patron of music, all her life she trod the line between respectability and scandal.
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03-Mar-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Unsung Heroines of Classical Music - Nadezhda von Meck 2 March 15
Vanora Bennett tells the story of Tchaikovsky's reclusive benefactor, Nadezhda von Meck, who paid his bills for thirteen years on the condition that they never meet.
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28-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - The Essay: Fear Itself - Raymond Tallis 27 Feb 15
Raymond Tallis on how human fear is rooted in the distinctive nature of human rather than animal consciousness, and how it is often led by thought and imagination.
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27-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - The Essay: Fear Itself - Temple Grandin 26 Feb 15
Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism in 1949 when aged two, has become a leading advocate for autistic people, and considers the role fear and anxiety plays in their condition.
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26-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - The Essay: Fear Itself - Quentin Skinner 25 Feb 15
Quentin Skinner on how 17th century British philosopher Thomas Hobbes came to believe that "fear and I were twin born", writing fear into the heart of his political philosophy.
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25-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - The Essay: Fear Itself - Kier-La Janisse 24 Feb 15
Kier-La Janisse reflects on how educational films like Dark and Lonely Water, The Finishing Line and Signal 30 have scared more children more deeply than any horror feature film.
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24-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - The Essay: Fear Itself - Matthew Sweet 23 Feb 15
Matthew Sweet reflects on The Little Albert Experiment, conducted by John B Watson, who conditioned a toddler to recoil from a white rat and, eventually, any white fluffy object.
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21-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - The Five Photographs that Changed Everything 20 Feb 15
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20-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - The Five Photographs that Changed Everything 19 Feb 15
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19-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - The Five Photographs that Changed Everything 18 Feb 15
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18-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - The Five Photographs that Changed Everything 17 Feb 15
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18-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - The Five Photographs that Changed Everything 16 Feb 15
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14-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Just Juvenilia - Roger Michell 13 Feb 15
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13-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Just Juvenilia - Stephen Coates 12 Feb 15
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12-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Just Juvenilia - Janet Suzman 11 Feb 15
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12-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Just Juvenilia - Harland Miller 10 Feb 15
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12-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Just Juvenilia - Deborah Moggach 9 Feb 15
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11-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Venice Unravelled 16 Jan 15
Writer Polly Coles on how Venetians adapted to live in 21st Century Venice
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11-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Fall and Rise of the British Castle 26 Jan 15
Five writers reflect on the continuing power of castles, which still dominate not only large sections of the British landscape, but also the imagination. Tonight, historian Jeremy Black gives an overall view of the castle as an instrument of control, built to withstand siege warfare - a lesson which, by the 18th century, had been all but forgotten.
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10-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Just Juvenilia by Deborah Moggach
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10-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Venice Unravelled_Episode 5of5_Water Level
Writer Polly Coles on how Venetians adapted to live in 21st Century Venice
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10-Feb-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Sir Paul Nurse 23 Jan 15
Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse explains how Karl Popper's "Conjectures and Refutations" helped rescue his career as a research scientist.
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31-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Fall and Rise of the British Castle 30 Jan 15
The grim, concrete forts and pillboxes of the east coast of England may seem a far cry from the romantic ruins of Britain's medieval castles. But as writer Ken Worpole argues, they have earned their place in the East Anglian landscape, and should be both preserved, and treasured as reminders of the past, just as much as ivy-clad castles and ruins from the high Middle Ages.
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30-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Fall and Rise of the British Castle 29 Jan 15
Often the visitor to a medieval castle in Britain is confronted with a mass of information and interpretation about the military activities of the men who inhabited these spaces, but very little about the women. Archaeologist Roberta Gilchrist is keen to correct this imbalance, arguing that traditional interpretations of castles ignore the gendered spaces - the gardens, the apartments, the kitchens where female servants cooked, or indeed the adjoining parklands where aristocratic women occasionally hunted.
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29-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Fall and Rise of the British Castle 28 Jan 15
The walls of Kenilworth Castle, situated at the heart of England, might have seemed practically impregnable to the men defending them. And yet, as Benjamin Wild argues, the mightiest of fortresses was of little more account than a mere folly when men pursued force and fanfare at the expense of political relationships. In 1266 a somewhat humiliated Henry III laid siege to this red sandstone structure, determined to reassert his authority over his upstart subjects.
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28-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Fall and Rise of the British Castle 27 Jan 15
It is generally conceded that, following his triumphant conquest of Wales, Edward I ordered the construction of some of the finest castles in Britain. But who exactly designed them, and who managed this massive project? Architectural historian Nicola Coldstream explores the careers of two medieval masons - Master James of Savoy and Master Hugh of Chester.
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28-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Venice Unravelled_Episode 5of5_Water Level
Writer Polly Coles on how Venetians adapted to live in 21st Century Venice
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24-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Sir Paul Nurse 23 Jan 15
Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse explains how Karl Popper's "Conjectures and Refutations" helped rescue his career as a research scientist.
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23-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Lolita Chakrabarti 22 Jan 15
Actor and playwright Lolita Chakrabarti explains how "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens affected her at a pivotal moment in her life.
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22-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Jon Ronson 21 Jan 15
Journalist and writer Jon Ronson explains how "What a Carve Up!" by Jonathan Coe led him to understand how politics affects everyday life.
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21-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Jude Kelly 20 Jan 15
Jude Kelly, the artistic director of Southbank Centre in London, describes how "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott mirrored her own experiences growing up in Liverpool.
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20-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Steve Earle 19 Jan 15
The legendary singer-songwriter Steve Earle describes how Truman Capote's true-life murder story, "In Cold Blood", captured his imagination as a 12-year-old boy.
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18-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Venice Unravelled Episode 4of5
Writer Polly Coles on how Venetians have adapted to live in 21st century Venice.
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18-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Venice Unravelled_Episode 3of5
Writer Polly Coles on how Venetians have adapted to live in 21st century Venice.
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18-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Venice Unravelled Episode 2of5
Writer Polly Coles on how Venetians have adapted to live in 21st century Venice.
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18-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Venice Unravelled Episode 1 of 5
Writer Polly Coles on how Venetians have adapted to live in 21st century Venice.
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10-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Genius of Disability: Lucy Jones 9 Jan 15
British painter Lucy Jones was born with cerebral palsy, but she has no intention of identifying as a disabled artist. She wants her portraits to offer a universal comment on humanity. Tom Shakespeare discusses how the challenges she faces have fuelled her creative genius.
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09-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Genius of Disability: Goya, Klee, Matisse 8 Jan 15
Tom Shakespeare explores the lives of three famous painters - Goya, Klee and Matisse - showing how restriction created by ageing or disease can open up new creative possibilities.
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08-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay The Genius of Disability Arturo Bispo do Rosario 7 Jan 15
The visionary Brazilian sculptor Arthur Bispo do Rosario spent 50 years on a psychiatric ward in Rio de Janeiro, and did not even think of himself as an artist. Born in Japaratuba, the descendant of African slaves, he was exposed to a strongly religious culture and to the hybrid traditions of folk art. He had been a sailor and an odd-job man when, in 1938, he had a vision of angels bathed in light. He felt that the Virgin Mary had guided him to record the universe in visual form, in preparation for the Day of Judgment. The same year, he was hospitalised for treatment for paranoid schizophrenia. Tom Shakespeare explores his creativity, originality and imagination.
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08-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Essay: The Genius of Disability: Bryan Pearce 6 Jan 15
Bryan Pearce, a painter from St Ives in Cornwall, was born with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria, which led to intellectual impairment and other health problems. As a teenager, he was encouraged by his mother and other artists to paint, and went on to enjoy a long and successful career, exhibiting throughout the UK. Tom Shakespeare celebrates his life and work.
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07-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay:The Genius of Disability: Al-Ma'arri 5 Jan 15
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03-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: WW1 Around the World - Dresden 02 Jan 15
What makes a soldier able to kill? The German artist Herlinde Koebl describes her worldwide exploration into targets and explores how soldiers were trained in the First World War. Recorded in front of an audience at the Bundeswehr Military Museum in Dresden.
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02-Jan-2015
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: WW1 Around the World - Sarajevo 01 Jan 15
In the place where World War One was sparked off. Sarajevo theatre director Haris Pasovic explores its effect on the long history of nationalism in the Balkans.
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31-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: WW1 Around the World - London 31 Dec 14
What was the emotional, cultural and physical impact of the shells of World War One? Joanna Bourke explores their meaning to soldiers with an audience at the Imperial War Museum in London.
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31-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: WW1 Around the World - St. Petersburg 30 Dec 14
How did the war change Russia? Novelist Tatyana Tolstaya tells an audience at the Hermitage in St Petersburg about the effect of revolutionary change on her own grandmother.
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30-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: WW1 Around the World Paris 29 Dec 14
For this Christmas edition of The Essay, recorded with an audience at Hotel National des Invalides, in Paris - the historic and ceremonial heart of the French Armed Forces -ÂÂ filmmaker Christian Carion looks at heroism and the truce of Christmas 1914.
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27-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: I've Never Told Anyone This Before - 26 Dec 2014
Novelist and street market enthusiast Suzanne Joinson shares a story of plunder and ethical dilemmas, in which she found a box of letters on a stall in Deptford Market and began to read them
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26-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: I've Never Told Anyone This Before - 25 Dec 2014
Jane Stevenson: biographer, historian and novelist tells, for the first time, the story of an unusual encounter whilst househunting. Some names have been changed
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25-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: I've Never Told Anyone This Before - 24 Dec 2014
At a time of year when families come together, Erica Wagner looks back at her childhood and wonders what it means when you start to question the stories you've heard all your life
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24-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: I've Never Told Anyone This Before - 23 Dec 2014
Kei Miller, the Forward Prize-winning Jamaican poet, novelist and critic explores some of the unarticulated territory and unwritten rules that lie between a black writer and a white audience
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24-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: I've Never Told Anyone This Before - 22 Dec 2014
Novelist Tod Wodicka suffered in silence for years from terrifying night-time experiences
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20-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Frederic Raphael on Living Abroad: Greece
Oscar-winning screen writer Frederic Raphael reads the final essay in his series about living abroad across Europe, this time in Greece.
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19-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Frederic Raphael on Living Abroad: Italy
Oscar-winning screen writer Frederic Raphael on living in early 1960s Italy, where he mixes ancient Roman history, with a very personal experience of some of the key players in the Italian film industry.
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18-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Frederic Raphael on Living Abroad: Spain
Frederic Raphael gives an off-the-beaten-track perspective on Franco's Spain, during the late 1950s, where he lived in a small artistic community and witnessed the impact of grand politics on Spanish village life.
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17-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Frederic Raphael on Living Abroad: France
'Every man has two countries, his own and France' says Frederic Raphael, quoting Thomas Jefferson, as he begins his essay series about living abroad across Europe.
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16-Dec-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Frederic Raphael on Living Abroad:
Oscar-winning writer Frederic Raphael reads the first of his essay series about living abroad throughout Europe between the 1940s and 60s, beginning with the first foreign country he ever lived in: England.
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29-Nov-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio - Fi Glover
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28-Nov-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio - Roger Phillips
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27-Nov-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay:Shaping the Air- Writers and Radio: David Hendy
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27-Nov-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay:Shaping the Air- Writers and Radio: Olivia O'Leary
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27-Nov-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Shaping the Air- Writers and Radio: Samuel West
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25-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Luke Johnson 24 Oct 14
Serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson celebrates the simple but powerful messages of "The Magic of Thinking Big" by David J Schwartz.
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25-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Malorie Blackman 23 Oct 14
Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman on how Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple" legitimised her need to be a writer.
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24-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Simon McBurney 22 Oct 14
Actor/director Simon McBurney on how John Berger's "And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos" plays with ideas of connection and memory which are essential to his theatrical work.
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24-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Tracey Thorn 21 Oct 14
Tracey Thorn, singer from the band Everything but the Girl, describes how Germaine Greer's "The Female Eunuch" spoke to her as a teenager - but now reads very differently.
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22-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Alan Johnson 20 Oct 14
Alan Johnson, Former Home Secretary, describes how "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens mirrored his poor and troubled childhood in West London. After the death of his mother, the discovery of this great novel gave him the hope to build a happy and secure adult life.
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18-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: A Body of Essays - The Appendix 17 Oct 14
Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to write an essay. In a compelling synthesis of biology and literature, we'll hear the 'dark continent' of our inner body, scrutinised through its hidden constituents - the organs. In his piece, novelist and journalist Ned Beauman confronts the idea that the appendix is redundant.
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17-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: A Body of Essays - The Intestines 16 Oct 14
Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to write an essay. In a compelling synthesis of biology and literature, we'll hear the 'dark continent' of our inner body, scrutinised through its hidden constituents - the organs. In her piece, novelist and journalist, Naomi Alderman reflects on the incredible labyrinth that is the intestines.
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16-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: A Body of Essays - The Lungs 15 Oct 14
Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to write an essay. In a compelling synthesis of biology and literature, we'll hear the 'dark continent' of our inner body, scrutinised through its hidden constituents - the organs. In his piece, poet Daljit Nagra describes how the lungs are an exchange system, similar to poetry.
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15-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: A Body of Essays - The Skin 14 Oct 14
Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to write an essay. In a compelling synthesis of biology and literature, we'll hear the 'dark continent' of our inner body, scrutinised through its hidden constituents - the organs. In her piece, journalist Christina Patterson reflects on the skin and her own experience of living with acne.
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14-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: A Body of Essays - The Gall Bladder 13 Oct 14
Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to write an essay. In a compelling synthesis of biology and literature, we'll hear the 'dark continent' of our inner body, scrutinised through its hidden constituents - the organs. In this piece, playwright Mark Ravenhill asks if his identity has changed since his gall bladder was removed.
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13-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Stories from the Cairo Genizah - Alchemy and Magic 13 Jun 14
Gabriele Ferrario of the Genizah Research Unit reveals a secret side to life in medieval Cairo: one governed by alchemy and magic.
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12-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Stories from the Cairo Genizah - Three Lives 12 Jun 14
Daniel Davies describes the private papers of philosopher Maimonides, leader Solomon ben Judah and merchant Abraham ben Yiju to shed light on three very different medieval lives.
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12-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Stories from the Cairo Genizah - Women 11 Jun 14
Melonie Schmierer-Lee examines ancient deeds of marriage, divorce and pre-nuptial agreements to reveal the varying fortunes of women in medieval Cairo.
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12-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Stories from the Cairo Genizah - Letters 10 Jun 14
Ben Outhwaite reads private letters between merchants to reveal an international trade network uniting Jews, Muslims and Christians across the medieval Mediterranean.
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12-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Stories from the Cairo Genizah - The Discovery 09 Jun 14
Esther-Miriam Wagner reveals how an eccentric scholar and two Scottish twins braved a legendary curse to uncover a treasure trove of medieval manuscripts in a Cairo synagogue.
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11-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Brahms Experience - Brahms and the Future 09 Oct 14
Natasha Loges explores the composer Brahms' relationship with technology and posterity.
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10-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Brahms Experience - Brahms and Freud 09 Oct 14
Brahms and Freud lived in Vienna at the same time. Writer Lesley Chamberlain asks what we can learn by placing them side by side.
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09-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Brahms Experience - Brahms and Germany 08 Oct 14
Pianist and writer Natasha Loges explores the composer Brahms' relationship with German nationalism.
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09-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Brahms Experience - Brahms and Nature 07 Oct 14
Lesley Chamberlain investigates how Brahms was influenced by the natural world
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07-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Brahms Experience - Public Brahms, Private Brahms 06 Oct 14
Natasha Loges looks beyond the Brahms' gruff public face and offers an invitation into his inner circle.
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04-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Trip Sheets - Changes 03 Oct 14
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03-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Trip Sheets - The Artistic Scene 02 Oct 14
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02-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Trip Sheets - The Bronx 01 Oct 14
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01-Oct-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Trip Sheets - Philip Roth 30 Sep 14
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30-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Trip Sheets - The Actors Life 29 Sep 14
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27-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Music in its Time 5 of 5
Stephen Johnson explores the impact of musical works on their original audiences. He examines the lives of those first listeners to reveal what our modern ears might be missing.
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26-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Music in its Time 4 of 5
Stephen Johnson explores the impact of Bach's St Matthew Passion on its first audiences in Leipzig. He examines their lives to reveal what our modern ears might be missing.
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25-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Music in its Time 3 of 5
Stephen Johnson explores how Schumann's Scenes from Childhood were listened to by their first audiences. He examines their lives to reveal what our modern ears might be missing.
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24-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Music in its Time 2 of 5
Stephen Johnson explores the impact of Victoria's Lamentations on listeners in Counter-Reformation Rome. He examines their lives to reveal what our modern ears might be missing.
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23-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Music in its Time 1 of 5
Stephen Johnson considers how five seminal pieces of music would have been appreciated by the audiences who heard them first. He probes the societies and cultures that shaped the experience of those original listeners to reveal what our modern ears might be missing.
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20-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: John Minihan - Photographing Beckett
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19-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Netia Jones - Lost in Translation
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18-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 17 Sept 14 Mark Nixon - Editing Beckett
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17-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 16 Sept 14 Fintan O'Toole - Beckett's Living Dead
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17-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 15 Sep 14 Lisa Dwan - A Body of Becketts
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16-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cornerstones- Slate
The poet Gillian Clarke speaks about slate and the human cost of quarrying it in Snowdonia.
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16-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cornerstones - Granite
Sculptor Peter Randall-Page on Dartmoor's obdurate and unforgiving granite boulders.
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16-Sep-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cornerstones - Limestone
How sandstone shapes the walker, writer and geologist Ronald Turnbull's favourite landscapes.
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28-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 23 July 2014: Praising Powell and Pressburger - Rev Richard Coles
The Rev Richard Coles ponders heaven and hell in the classic 1946 Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death, starring David Niven.
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28-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 21 Jul 2014: Praising Powell and Pressburger - Deborah Bull
Continuing the Sound of Cinema season, ballerina, writer and broadcaster Deborah Bull gives a dancer's take on Powell and Pressburger's best-known film, the 1948 classic 'The Red Shoes', starring Moira Shearer, and based on the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.
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28-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 25 Jul 2014: Praising Powell and Pressburger - Peter Bradshaw
Film critic Peter Bradshaw looks at Powell and Pressburger's sensuous 1947 melodrama, 'Black Narcissus'.
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19-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Homage to Caledonia: Hidden Identities
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18-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Homage to Caledonia: The Language of the Scots
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18-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Goodbye to All That: Daniel Kehlmann
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17-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Homage to Caledonia: Morality and Misery
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16-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Homage to Caledonia: GSOH
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15-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Homage to Caledonia: Scots Abroad
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12-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Goodbye to All That: Jeanette Winterson
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12-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Goodbye to All That: Xiaolu Guo
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12-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Goodbye to All That: Daniel Kehlmann
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09-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Goodbye to All That: Colm Toibin
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09-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Goodbye to All That: Elif Shafak
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05-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Minds At War: The Grieving Parents 04 Jul 14
The poet Ruth Padel reflects on the German artist Kathe Kollwitz's memorial for her youngest son Peter, who died on the battlefields of the First World War in October 1914.
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04-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Minds At War: The Broken Wing 03 Jul 14
Santanu Das on the Indian poet, Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection, The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death and the Spring.
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03-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Minds At War: Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belport 02 Jul 14
BBC Correspondent Lyse Doucet, fresh from her experiences in Afghanistan and Syria, introduces novelist Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France, 'Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort'.
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02-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Minds At War: Battleship Potemkin 01 Jul 14
Ian Christie on Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin.
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02-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Minds At War: Non-Combatants and Others 24 Jun 14
Sarah LeFanu reflects on Rose Macaulay's 1916 novel, Non-Combatants and Others.
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01-Jul-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Minds At War: Le Feu 30 Jun 14
Dr Heather Jones of the LSE reflects on Henri Barbusse's novel Le Feu.
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30-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Minds At War: Thoughts for the Times on War and Death 27 Jun 14
Michal Shapira on Sigmund Freud's Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, a text written in Vienna in 1915, expressing his dismay as the war progressed.
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30-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Minds At War: The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science 26 Jun 14
Professor David Edgerton of King's College London reflects on the Memorandum on the Neglect of Science, a 1916 clarion-call from the British scientific establishment.
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30-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Minds At War: Der Krieg 25 Jun 14
Cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson on Otto Dix's Der Krieg, a harrowing cycle of prints.
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30-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Minds At War: Non-Combatants and Others 24 Jun 14
Sarah LeFanu reflects on Rose Macaulay's 1916 novel, Non-Combatants and Others.
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30-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Minds At War 23 Jun 14
Allan Little reflects on C.R.W.Nevinson's great 1917 painting, Paths of Glory.
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30-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Unknown Cities: Holguin - Simon Calder 20 June 14
Simon Calder recalls the small-scale delights of Holguin in Cuba. It' so different to the capital city, but worth the detour - if you can get there!
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30-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Unknown Cities - Asmara - Michela Wrong 19 June 14
Travel writer Michela Wrong sees beautiful Italianate buildings, and all things Futurist - in Africa. In Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, to be precise.
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30-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Unknown Cities: Makhachkala - Venora Bennett 18 June 14
Vanora Bennett describes Makhachkala in Russia as 'beyond the mountains', yet these days it's on the brink of enormous change...
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18-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Unknown Cities: Kunming - Romesh Gunesekera 17 June 14
The novelist Romesh Gunesekera can't wait to tell us about Kunming, which is so unlike any other modern Chinese city...
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18-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Unknown Cities: Hobart - Nicholas Shakespeare 16 June 2014
1/5 Nicholas Shakespeare on Hobart's convict and whaling past, and the story of a monkey.
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14-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Stories from the Cairo Genizah - Alchemy and Magic 13 Jun 14
Gabriele Ferrario of the Genizah Research Unit reveals a secret side to life in medieval Cairo: one governed by alchemy and magic.
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13-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Stories from the Cairo Genizah - Three Lives 12 Jun 14
Daniel Davies describes the private papers of philosopher Maimonides, leader Solomon ben Judah and merchant Abraham ben Yiju to shed light on three very different medieval lives.
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13-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Stories from the Cairo Genizah - Women 11 Jun 14
Melonie Schmierer-Lee examines ancient deeds of marriage, divorce and pre-nuptial agreements to reveal the varying fortunes of women in medieval Cairo.
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13-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Stories from the Cairo Genizah - Letters 10 Jun 14
Ben Outhwaite reads private letters between merchants to reveal an international trade network uniting Jews, Muslims and Christians across the medieval Mediterranean.
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13-Jun-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Stories from the Cairo Genizah - The Discovery 09 Jun 14
Esther-Miriam Wagner reveals how an eccentric scholar and two Scottish twins braved a legendary curse to uncover a treasure trove of medieval manuscripts in a Cairo synagogue.
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24-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 23 May 14: The Meaning of Trees: Rowan
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23-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 22 May 14: The Meaning of Trees: Poplar
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22-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 21 May 14: The Meaning of Trees: Apple
Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature at Somerville College Oxford, explores the symbolism of five trees common in the UK. The apple tree is discussed in this edition, viewed with suspicion for centuries.
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21-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 20 May 14: The Meaning of Trees: Hawthorn
Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature at Somerville College Oxford, explores the symbolism of five trees common in the UK. In this edition, Fiona looks at Hawthorn trees which have shaped Britain for centuries.
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21-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 19 May 14: The Meaning of Trees: Pine
Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature at Somerville College Oxford, explores the symbolism of five trees common in the UK. In this edition, Fiona explores the workhorse of the forest - the Pine tree.
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10-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay:9th May Dylan Thomas Centenary: Dylan's Bardic Heritage
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10-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay:8th May Dylan Thomas Centenary: Dylan Over the Pond
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10-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 7th May Dylan Thomas Centenary: Tracing Dylan's Pathway
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09-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Dylan Thomas Centenary: Dylan Over the Pond
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08-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Dylan Thomas Centenary: Tracing Dylan's Pathway
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08-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay:6 May Dylan Thomas Centenary A Childhood Encounter with Dylan
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07-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 5th May Dylan Thomas Centenary: John Goodby
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03-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 2 May 14 Georgian Portraits: Robert Adam
Historian Dan Cruikshank on architect Robert Adam
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02-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 1 May 14 Georgian Portraits: Hogarth
Writer and cartoonist Martin Rowson on Hogarth
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01-May-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 30 Apr 14 Georgian Portraits - Elizabeth Parker Shackleton
Historian Amanda Vickery on Lancashire gentlewoman Elizabeth Parker Shackleton
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30-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 29 Apr 14 Georgian Portraits - David Garrick
Actor and writer Ian Kelly on actor, playwright, and theatre manager David Garrick
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29-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 28 Apr 14 Georgian Portraits - Dora Jordan
Biographer and journalist Claire Tomalin on the comic actress and future king's muse Dora Jordan.
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13-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 11 APR 14: An Intimate History of the Bed
Novelist and academic Ian Sansom explores the symbolism of beds in literature, art and film, and asks what beds reveal about human nature. 'Beds are where we are most physical, most elemental, and where we experience the great highs and lows of life. Everything significant that happens to us tends to take place in bed'. Certainly many of history's greatest thinkers and writers are thought to have been inspired in bed; G.K. Chesterton wished he had a pencil long enough to write on the ceiling while lying down, Milton is said to have written Paradise Lost in bed, and Truman Capote started his day in bed with coffee, mint tea, sherry and martinis.
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11-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 10 APR 14: Cabinets of Curiosity
Novelist Ian Sansom delves into cupboards and cabinets to explore what they reveal about human nature. Le Corbusier didn't approve of the clutter cupboards encourage, wanting to free our lives of 'junk'; whereas artist Herbert Distel filled a cabinet with trinkets donated by Man Ray, Annette Messager, Andy Warhol, and John Cage - 'a roll-call of twentieth-century conceptualists, creatives, collagists and curators of the curious' in his Museum of Drawers. Ian wonders if the contents of our cupboards really do tell our life stories, complete with all the hopes, dreams and broken promises suggested by unused pasta machines and unfinished jigsaws - or in the end does it all 'amount to nothing, just so much junk?
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10-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 09 APR 14: Je suis un table
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09-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 08 APR 14: Who's Been Sitting in My Chair?
Are you sitting comfortably? Despite his bad posture, novelist and academic Ian Sansom explores our complex physical, mental and emotional relationship with the chair. Chairs can symbolise who we are, like Ian's comfy old overstuffed armchair, and in 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears', the little bear asks 'Who?s been sitting in my chair?' which Ian reads as "Who am I?" Van Gogh painted two empty chairs after his famous fall-out with Gauguin; and Ian believes their symbolism is most powerful when empty, because empty chairs always imply people.
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09-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 07 APR 14: The Wardrobe & the Other World
Novelist and academic Ian Sansom steps into the history of wardrobes, to discover not only how and why we store clothes in large upright wooden boxes, but also why wardrobes feature so largely in fairy tales, memoirs and stories. From E. Nesbit's 'The Aunt and Anabel' to C.S Lewis's 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe', via Guy De Maupassant's tragic tale of a child in a wardrobe, Rimbaud's poem about a wardrobe with missing keys, and Roman Polanski's short film about two men who carry a wardrobe out of the sea; Ian explores the symbolism of wardrobes as a place where secrets are stored, imaginations inspired, consciences hidden, and our 'selves' reinvented
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05-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Springwalks - Philip Hoare in Sholing 04 Apr 14
Philip Hoare is quickly at the water's edge in Sholing, well before the waking hour. Then meetings with many animals are recalled.
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04-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Springwalks - Kirsty Gunn in Sutherland 03 Apr 14
Kirsty Gunn is in Sutherland, debating whether to ford the chilly River Brora on an afternoon hike.
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03-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Springwalks - John Walsh 02 Apr 14
John Walsh reckons that 'below' it feels wintry; yet ascend near a village called Steep and spring beckons. But where is he?
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02-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Springwalks - Ross Raisin in the Yorkshire Wolds 1 Apr 14
Ross Raisin recalls the Yorkshire Wolds, getting greener all the time, and scene of some famous new paintings by David Hockney.
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01-Apr-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Springwalks - Michele Roberts in Poznan 31 Mar 14
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22-Mar-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Sara Mohr-Pietsch on Hildegard of Bingen 21 MAR 2014
Radio 3 presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates a composer whose music has particularly inspired her: the remarkable twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard of Bingen - perhaps the earliest actual "composer" in the history of Western music.
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21-Mar-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Martin Handley on Malcolm Arnold 20 MAR 2014
Radio 3 presenter Martin Handley celebrates a composer whose music has particularly inspired him: Malcolm Arnold, creator of symphonies of great emotional depth and complexity.
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20-Mar-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Lucie Skeaping on Thomas Ravenscroft 19 MAR 2014
Radio 3 presenter Lucie Skeaping celebrates Shakespeare's contemporary Thomas Ravenscroft.
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20-Mar-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Tom Service on Arnold Bax 18 MAR 2014
Radio 3 presenter Tom Service celebrates the music of Scots-inspired composer Arnold Bax.
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20-Mar-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Sarah Walker on John White 17 MAR 2014
Sarah Walker celebrates 'English experimentalist' composer John White.
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15-Mar-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Tolu Ogunlesi 14 Mar 2014
Journalist and poet Tolu Ogunlesi from Nigeria reflects on âCommonwealth Questions'.
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14-Mar-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Farah Ghuznavi 13 Mar 2014
The value of the Commonwealth is explored by Bangladeshi writer Farah Ghuznavi.
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13-Mar-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Noah Richler 12 Mar 2014
Writer Noah Richer examines the nature of the Canadian way of life in Commonwealth Questions.
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13-Mar-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Fakir Aijuzuddin 11 Mar 2014
The Commonwealth is explored from a Pakistani perspective by author Fakir Aijuzuddin.
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13-Mar-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Dr Sue Onslow 10 Mar 2014
Dr Sue Onslow, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, looks back at the colourful history of the organisation.
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22-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cornerstones- Slate
The poet Gillian Clarke speaks about slate and the human cost of quarrying it in Snowdonia.
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21-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cornerstones - Granite
Sculptor Peter Randall-Page on Dartmoor's obdurate and unforgiving granite boulders.
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20-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cornerstones - Sandstone
How sandstone shapes the walker, writer and geologist Ronald Turnbull's favourite landscapes.
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19-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cornerstones - Limestone
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18-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 17 Feb 14: The Islamic Golden Age no.20
Lubna of Cordoba worked in the Royal Library. Writer Kamila Shamsie goes on the trail of this woman who leaves little trace in the history books.
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15-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Al-Rumi 14 Feb 14
Narguess Farzad explores the life and work of the much loved 13th-century Persian poet Al-Rumi
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14-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 13 Feb 14: The Islamic Golden Age no. 18
Salah al-Din known to us as Saladin was a hero in his own lifetime and is still revered today. Jonathan Phillips explores his eventful life and legacy.
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13-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cities of Learning 12 Feb 14
Dr Amira Bennison examines the creation of two great cities of learning - Baghdad and Cairo
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12-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Ibn Rushd 11 Feb 14
Professor Charles Burnett from the Warburg Institute sheds light on the ideas of the philosopher, Ibn Rushd - also widely known as Averroes
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12-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: England Ejects - On Sunday Church-Going 31 Jan 14
Novelist Andrew Martin on attitudes and rituals that are fast fading from our lives. And he concludes his series with something we often did on Sundays - 'church-going'.
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12-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: England Ejects - On the Joys of Manual Work 30 Jan 14
Novelist Andrew Martin on attitudes and rituals that are fast fading from our lives. And he continues with a celebration of 'manual work' - which fewer embrace these days.
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12-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: England Ejects - On the Old Rules, or Gentility 29 Jan 14
Novelist Andrew Martin considers attitudes that no longer seem so vital in the modern world. And this time he thinks about the loss of old rules. The ones to do with 'gentility'
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12-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: England Ejects - On Not Eating Too Much 28 Jan 14
Novelist Andrew Martin laments the loss of 'not eating too much'.
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12-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: England Ejects - On Not Boasting 27 Jan 14
Novelist Andrew Martin laments why 'not boasting' is fading from our lives.
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11-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 10 Feb 14: The Islamic Golden Age no. 15
Al-Ghazali, polymath, thinker, philosopher. Professor Mona Siddiqui explores the live of this Islamic scholar.
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08-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 07 Feb 14: The Islamic Golden Age no.14
Al-Hakim and Sitt al-Mulk were two of the most controversial figures in Egypt during the Islamic Golden Age. Dr. Simonetta Calderini sheds light on their lives.
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07-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 06 Feb 14: The Islamic Golden Age no 13
Professor James Montgomery looks at the life of the polymath Al-Biruni.
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06-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 05 Feb 14: The Islamic Golden Age no. 12
Dr. Sussan Babaie considers some of the most important architectural developments during the Islamic Golden Age.
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05-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 04 Feb 14: The Islamic Golden Age no.11
Al-Tabari was a chronicler of the early Islamic world. Professor Hugh Kennedy assesses his contribution to the Islamic Golden Age.
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04-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 03 Feb 14: The Islamic Golden Age No.10
Avicenna was considered one of the greatest philosophers of his age. Dr. Tony Street presents a vivid account of his life and work and why he's such an important figure.
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01-Feb-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: England Ejects - On Sunday Church-Going 31 Jan 14
Novelist Andrew Martin on attitudes and rituals that are fast fading from our lives. And he concludes his series with something we often did on Sundays - 'church-going'.
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31-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: England Ejects - On the Joys of Manual Work 30 Jan 14
Novelist Andrew Martin on attitudes and rituals that are fast fading from our lives. And he continues with a celebration of 'manual work' - which fewer embrace these days.
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30-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: England Ejects - On the Old Rules, or Gentility 29 Jan 14
Novelist Andrew Martin considers attitudes that no longer seem so vital in the modern world. And this time he thinks about the loss of old rules. The ones to do with 'gentility'
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29-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: England Ejects - On Not Eating Too Much 28 Jan 14
Novelist Andrew Martin laments the loss of 'not eating too much'.
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28-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: England Ejects - On Not Boasting 27 Jan 14
Novelist Andrew Martin laments why 'not boasting' is fading from our lives.
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25-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Luke Johnson 24 Jan 14
Serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson celebrates the simple but powerful messages of "The Magic of Thinking Big" by David J Schwartz.
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24-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Malorie Blackman 23 Jan 14
Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman on how Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple" legitimised her need to be a writer.
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23-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Simon McBurney 22 Jan 14
Actor/director Simon McBurney on how John Berger's "And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos" plays with ideas of connection and memory which are essential to his theatrical work.
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22-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Tracey Thorn 21 Jan 14
Tracey Thorn, singer from the band Everything but the Girl, describes how Germaine Greer's "The Female Eunuch" spoke to her as a teenager - but now reads very differently.
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21-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: The Book That Changed Me - Alan Johnson 20 Jan 14
Alan Johnson, Former Home Secretary, describes how "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens mirrored his poor and troubled childhood in West London. After the death of his mother, the discovery of this great novel gave him the hope to build a happy and secure adult life.
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18-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Letters to a Young Poet - Don Paterson 17 Jan 14
Inspired by Rilke's classic text, Don Paterson writes a letter to a young poet of today.
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17-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Letters to a Young Poet - Moniza Alvi 16 Jan 14
A letter by TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Moniza Alvi.
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17-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Letters to a Young Poet - Michael Longley 15 Jan 14
A letter to a young poet from Belfast poet Michael Longley.
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15-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Letters to a Young Poet - Vicki Feaver 14 Jan 14
A letter to a young woman poet by one of the TS Eliot Prize's judges, Vicki Feaver.
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15-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Letters to a Young Poet - Michael Symmonds Roberts 13 Jan 14
Inspired by Rilke's classic text, Michael Symmons Roberts writes to a young poet of today.
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14-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cities on the Brink - St Petersburg 09 Jan 13
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12-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cities on the Brink - London 10 Jan 14
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12-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cities on the Brink - Berlin 08 Jan 14
Berlin, the capital of Kaiser Wilhelm II's empire. Stephen Evans, the BBC's Berlin Correspondent, reminds us that the German capital on the eve of war was the world's most innovative technological centre. Einstein was here, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics from 1914. Mark Twain called Berlin the "German Chicago" because of its dizzying sense of modernity and progress. Immigrants were sucked in by industry. In 1895, 20,000 Berliners worked in the factories being built on the outskirts of the city, living cheek-by-jowl in new blocks which became known as "rental barracks".
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12-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cities on the Brink - Paris 07 Jan 14
Berlin, the capital of Kaiser Wilhelm II's empire. Stephen Evans, the BBC's Berlin Correspondent, reminds us that the German capital on the eve of war was the world's most innovative technological centre. Einstein was here, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics from 1914. Mark Twain called Berlin the "German Chicago" because of its dizzying sense of modernity and progress. Immigrants were sucked in by industry. In 1895, 20,000 Berliners worked in the factories being built on the outskirts of the city, living cheek-by-jowl in new blocks which became known as "rental barracks".
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12-Jan-2014
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Cities on the Brink - Vienna 6 Jan 14
In this programme, Bethany Bell, the BBC's Vienna Correspondent, evokes both the public face of Austria-Hungary's capital and the simmering tensions which underlay its multi-national empire on the eve of the greatest conflagration the world had yet seen. Taking us on a richly evocative tour of the embodiment of Mitteleuropa, she tells us about a world that was soon to be torn asunder but of which telling - and not always attractive - elements remain.
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21-Dec-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Let There Be Dark - Episode 5 20 Dec 13
Seeing the Future: There's never been a better time to go blind. The digital world transforms the way information can be appreciated, doing great things for the sighted as well as the blind - breaking down barriers to absorbing, manipulating, and transmitting culture. But access can be denied by considerations of politics and trade, rooted in the history of copyright. Visually impaired people sometimes end up as collateral damage in the war on digital piracy. Rupert Goodwins looks into how the future could be brighter for blindness.
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20-Dec-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Let There Be Dark - Episode 4 19 Dec 13
Long, Slow, Journey Through the Night: Disability isn't limited to the physical fact of what it does to mind and body - the isolation it brings has compounded its cruelty throughout history. As a technology journalist who started off building computers, Rupert Goodwins decided to find out if he could use some of the tools of his trade to change that situation, and make our hyper-connected modern environment solve some very old problems.
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19-Dec-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Let There Be Dark - Episode 3 18 Dec 13
Doctoring the Evidence: The experience of being a patient in modern medicine is little discussed by doctors and often badly handled by the media. Through months of investigation as the medics tried to find the why behind the what, Rupert Goodwins finds much has changed in what it means to be a patient, and old assumptions are not a good guide for what will happen next.
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18-Dec-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Let There Be Dark - Episode 2 17 Dec 13
Behind the Eyes: Even perfect eyesight is nothing of the sort- it just looks the part. As the world changed and darkened around him, Rupert Goodwins found that not only did the real nature of sight became clearer, the revelations led to realisations about philosophy and reality that are too easily lost in the dazzle of daylight.
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18-Dec-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Let There Be Dark - Episode 1 16 Dec 13
Let There Be Dark: When journalist Rupert Goodwins started losing his sight, he wasn't expecting a journey to the back of his eyeballs that would take him 500 million years through time with stops for the evolution of modern philosophy, the nature of experience and the curious nature of sight itself. The surprise began in the night sky when the stars started going out...
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07-Dec-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 06 DEC 13: The Islamic Golden Age
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06-Dec-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 05 DEC 13: The Islamic Golden Age
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05-Dec-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 04 DEC 13: The Islamic Golden Age
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04-Dec-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 03 DEC13: The Islamic Golden Age
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03-Dec-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 02 DEC 13: The Islamic Golden Age
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30-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 29 Nov 13: Islamic Golden Age No. 5 Harun
Julia Bray introduces one of the more famous figures from the Islamic Golden Age - Harun, the caliph of the Thousand and One Nights.
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29-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 28 Nov 13: Islamic Golden Age no. 4 Paper
Johnathan Bloom considers the role Muslim scholars and manufacturers played in bringing paper from the east to the west.
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28-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 27 Nov 13: The Islamic Golden Age no 3
Baroness Warsi, the first Cabinet Minister of the Muslim faith gives a personal account of her admiration for the religious scholar, Iman Bukhari.
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27-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 26 Nov 13 Islamic Golden Age No.2
Robert Gleave introduces Ali ibn Abi Talib, one of the early religious leaders from the Islamic period.
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26-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 25 Nov 13 Islamic Golden Age No. 1 Conquest
Hugh Kennedy introduces this major new series for Radio 3 with the lives of Umar b. al-Khattab, called Umar or Omar I who reigned from 634 to 644 and the other Abd al-Malik the Umayyad, 685-705 . The achievements of both these men were fundamental to the development of the Islamic Golden Age.
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22-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 21st Nov: Cubism
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21-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 20th Nov: Le Grand Meaulnes
4/5 Writer Michele Roberts assesses the impact of Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes.
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20-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 19th Nov: Alcools
2/4 Martin Sorrell explores on Apollinaire's ground-breaking volume of poetry, Alcools.
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20-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 18th Nov: Swann's Way
1/5 Why Marcel Proust's Swann's Way was among highlights of a great year for Parisian culture.
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16-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 15 NOV 13: Essay: The Existential Me
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15-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 14 NOV 13: Essay: The Existential Me
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15-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 13 NOV13: Essay: The Existential Me
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15-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 12 NOV 13: Essay: The Existential Me
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15-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - 11 NOV 13: Essay: The Existential Me
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14-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay:13.11.13: The Existential Me
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14-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 12.11.13: The Existential Me
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14-Nov-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 11.11.13: The Existential Me
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19-Oct-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 18 OCT 13: If Walls Could Talk: Glenn Patterson
Glenn Patterson takes a humourous and distinctly Belfast-tinted look at Northern Ireland's 'second' city, revisiting his childhood bafflement at a place that seemed far off in the distant north west. Despite early ambivalence, Derry's unique cultural tale had a lasting impact and influence on Glenn - the city's Punk rockers The Undertones changed his view of music and 'shook' him awake, but are they from Mexico or Canada?
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18-Oct-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 17 OCT 13: If Walls Could Talk: Nuala Hayes
Actor and story-teller Nuala Hayes explores the common threads of the Londonderry's shirt factory and story-telling traditions, examining the shirt as a symbol in Irish poetry and literature, and story-telling on the factory floors of Derry where story and song became a way of life for the city's women.
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17-Oct-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 16 OCT 13: If Walls Could Talk: Brian McGilloway
Crime novelist Brian McGilloway explores how the urban landscape of Londonderry shaped him creatively, from the river Foyle which divides the city, to its dark, tangled streets and alleyways, and the strange hinterland of the nearby Donegal border.
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16-Oct-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 15 OCT 13: If Walls Could Talk: Neil Cowley
Composer and pianist Neil Cowley revisits his year as Derry's official musician in residence for its year as UK City of Culture. He arrived in a city he knew little about, full of trepidation thanks to years of headlines about terrorism and violence. What he found among the city's young musicians challenged and changed not only his long-held preconceptions about Northern Ireland, and Derry in particular, but also reinforced his view of music as a powerful tool to bring about change.
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16-Oct-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 14 OCT 13: If Walls Could Talk: Susan McKay
Journalist and author Susan McKay returns to Derry to examine what City of Culture status and its rebranding and reimagining has meant to a place that endured some of the worst episodes of the 'troubles' throughout her school days. As its search for identity continues, what has the city gained from its year in the limelight?
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05-Oct-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 04 Oct 2013: Sound of Cinema: You Ainât Heard Nothing Yet
Matthew Sweet explores those moments when the talkie stops talking and cuts the music dead and asks what's been lost now that cinema is no longer a physical, photochemical medium.
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04-Oct-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 03 Oct 2013: Sound of Cinema - You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
The writer and film critic David Thomson explores how film composers create mood and how the best music evokes a place beyond reality.
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03-Oct-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 02 Oct 2013: Sound of Cinema - You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
The American academic and social critic Camille Paglia on the scores which have inspired her since childhood including the work of Bernard Herrmann, John Dankworth and Max Steiner.
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03-Oct-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 01Oct 2013: Sound of Cinema - You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
The novelist Jonathan Coe explores how a joint concert with Arthur Honegger led to the composer Miklós Rózsa writing for film, including the scores for 'Ben-Hur' and 'Spellbound'.
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02-Oct-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 30 Sep 2013: Sound of Cinema - You Ainât Heard Nothing Yet
Matthew Sweet on the sound-world of cinema's beginnings from the orchestras of big-budget epics to the small bands of the fleapits and discovers how their ghosts haunt us today.
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28-Sep-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 27 Sep 2013: Praising Powell and Pressburger - A L Kennedy
A L Kennedy contemplates the inconveniences of love in the 1945 Powell and Pressburger romance 'I Know Where I'm Going!', set on a remote Scottish island.
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27-Sep-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 26 Sep 2013: Praising Powell and Pressburger - Peter Bradshaw
Film critic Peter Bradshaw looks at Powell and Pressburger's sensuous 1947 melodrama, 'Black Narcissus'.
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27-Sep-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 25 Sep 2013: Praising Powell and Pressburger - Rev Richard Coles
The Rev Richard Coles ponders heaven and hell in the classic 1946 Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death, starring David Niven.
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27-Sep-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 24 Sep 2013: Praising Powell and Pressburger - Ian Christie
Ian Christie on the 1943 Powell and Pressburger film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, a film that has been called Britain's answer to Citizen Kane.
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25-Sep-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 20th September 2013 - Yield to the Night
As part of BBC Radio 3's Sound of Cinema, historian and columnist Simon Heffer reflects on classic taboo-breaking British films which depicted a society changed profoundly by war.
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25-Sep-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 19th September 2013 - Mandy
As part of BBC Radio 3's Sound of Cinema, historian and columnist Simon Heffer reflects on classic taboo-breaking British films which depicted a society changed profoundly by war.
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25-Sep-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 18th September 2013 - The Long Memory
As part of BBC Radio 3's Sound of Cinema, historian and columnist Simon Heffer reflects on classic taboo-breaking British films which depicted a society changed profoundly by war.
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25-Sep-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 17th September 2013 - The Browning Version
As part of BBC Radio 3's Sound of Cinema, historian and columnist Simon Heffer reflects on classic taboo-breaking British films which depicted a society changed profoundly by war.
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25-Sep-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 16th September 2013 - It Always Rains on Sunday
As part of BBC Radio 3's Sound of Cinema, historian and columnist Simon Heffer reflects on classic taboo-breaking British films which depicted a society changed profoundly by war.
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24-Sep-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 23 Sep 2013: Praising Powell and Pressburger - Deborah Bull
Continuing the Sound of Cinema season, ballerina, writer and broadcaster Deborah Bull gives a dancer's take on Powell and Pressburger's best-known film, the 1948 classic 'The Red Shoes', starring Moira Shearer, and based on the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.
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13-Jul-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 12 Jul 13: On Directing - Mike Figgis
Mike Figgis reflects on the lessons he learned while working on big studio films in Hollywood, and on how those experiences shaped his own approach to directing.
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12-Jul-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 11 Jul 13: On Directing - Josie Rourke
Josie Rourke, the Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, reminds us that working in theatre isn't always plain sailing. In her essay, she looks at what happens when disaster strikes and things go wrong.
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11-Jul-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 10 Jul 13: On Directing - Bartlett Sher
Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher explores how a director must search for the play's 'inward sound' when creating theatre.
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10-Jul-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 9 Jul 13: On Directing - Emma Rice
Emma Rice explores the role of the director as storyteller, and elaborates on the undertaking that transforms a text into a fully-fledged production.
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09-Jul-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 8 Jul 13: On Directing - Roger Michell
Roger Michell reflects on the mix of emotion he feels on the first day of any production, and beckons us to follow as he travels to the location of his 2012 film Hyde Park on Hudson.
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22-Jun-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 21 Jun 13: Writer's Dickens - Justin Cartwright
Justin Cartwright explores the deep significance of Christmas to Dickens, and reflects on how much he has been influenced by Dickens's views and themes.
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21-Jun-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 20 Jun 13: Writer's Dickens - Alexander McCall Smith
Best-selling novelist Alexander McCall Smith pays homage to Dickens as his role model and master in the art of episodic writing.
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20-Jun-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 19 Jun 13: Writer's Dickens - A.L. Kennedy
AL Kennedy explores Dickens' literary response to the themes of poverty, misery and death.
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19-Jun-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 18 Jun 13: Writer's Dickens - Romesh Gunesekera
Romesh Gunesekera on how Dickens addresses the move from childhood into the world beyond.
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18-Jun-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 17 Jun 13: Writer's Dickens - Tessa Hadley
Rooms and Reality. Tessa Hadley on how Dickens paints the reality of his world through characters' houses.
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01-Jun-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Wagner and Adorno
John Deathridge on Wagner seen through the writings of the 20th century philosopher Theodor Adorno.
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25-May-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Wagner and Adorno
John Deathridge on Wagner seen through the writings of the 20th century philosopher Theodor Adorno
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24-May-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Wagner and Nietzsche 23 May 13
Michael Tanner on the relationship between the philosopher Nietzsche and Wagner
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23-May-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Wagner and Schopenhauer 22 May 13
Professor Christopher Janaway on the influence of the philosopher Schopenhauer on Wagner
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22-May-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Wagner and the Philosophy of Revolution 21 May 13
Professor Anthony Grayling on Wagner and the Philosophy of Revolution
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21-May-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Wagner and German Idealism 20 May 13
Professor Roger Scruton on Wagner and German Idealism
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay 26 Apr 13: Unknown Cities: Holguin
The travel editor Simon Calder reports back on his favourite city off the beaten track, which is Holguin.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay 25 Apr 13: Unknown Cities: Asmara
The travel writer Michela Wrong reports back on her favourite city off the beaten track, which is Asmara.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay 24 Apr 13: Unknown Cities: Makhachkala
The author Vanora Bennett reports back on her favourite city off the beaten track, which is Makhachkala.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay 23 Apr 13: Unknown Cities: Kunming
The novelist Romesh Gunesekera can't wait to tell us about Kunming, which is so unlike any other modern Chinese city.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 19 Apr 13: The Makers of the Bayeux Tapestry
Gale Owen-Crocker explores the making of the Bayeux Tapestry.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay 22 Apr 13: Unknown Cities: Hobart
The novelist Nicholas Shakespeare reports back on his favourite city off the beaten track, which is Hobart.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Anglo Saxon Portraits 18 April 13: King Harold
Clive Anderson recounts the life of his favourite Anglo Saxon, King Harold.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Anglo Saxon Portraits 17 April 13 Edward
Number 28 of 30 Anglo Saxon Portraits. Stephen Baxter profiles Edward the Confessor.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Anglo Saxon Portraits 16 March 2013 no.27
Simon Keynes profiles King Aethelred the Unready
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Anglo Saxo Portraits 15 April 13 26: Emma
Pauline Stafford profiles the life of Queen Emma
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: Anglo Saxon Portraits 12 Apr 13: 25: CNUT
Timothy Bolton debunks the myths surrounding King Cnut, a pivotal ruler during Anglo Saxon times.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 11 Apr 13: Anglo-Saxon Portraits - Athelstan
Sarah Foot makes a passionate claim for King Athelstan - whom the twelfth century historian, William of Malmesbury called the most law-abiding ruler that England had ever had - to be reinstated as a more significant figure in British history.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 29 Mar 13: Baroque Season - Tessa Hadley
Writer Tessa Hadley on Henry James's long and sinuous sentences and jokes. Is there such a thing as baroque prose? Recorded with an audience at St George's Bristol.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 28 Mar 13: Baroque Season - Chloe Aridjis
Chloe Aridjis, Mexican novelist, on the survival of home-grown baroque - from ecclesiastical architecture to murder - in Mexico. Recorded with an audience at St George's Bristol.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 27 Mar 13: Baroque Season - Ed Hollis
Ed Hollis, former architect and teacher at Edinburgh University, on twentieth-century architecture's battle with the baroque. Recorded with an audience at St George's Bristol
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 26 Mar 13: Baroque Season - Paul Farley
Paul Farley, poet and professor of Creative Writing at Lancaster University on baroque 'n' roll: ornamentation at the root of all delight. Recorded with an audience at St George's Bristol
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 25 Mar 13: Baroque Season - Alexandra Harris
Alexandra Harris, author of Romantic Moderns and a Radio 3 New Generation thinker, on the legacy of baroque style in twentieth-century English design. Recorded with an audience at St George's Bristol.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 10 Apr 10: Anglo-Saxon Portraits - The Smith
Lesley Webster on the life of the smith and his ambivalent status in Anglo-Saxon society.
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 09 Apr 13: Anglo-Saxon Portraits - Wynflaed
Michael Wood on Wynflaed, seen as the first woman in British history to have left a will
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28-Apr-2013
Radio 3 Essay - Essay: 08 Apr 13: Anglo-Saxon Portraits - Leoba
Barbara Yorke on Leoba, the 8th-century nun who became a pioneering abbess in Germany
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