The Essay Episodes Episode guide
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You've Got Mail
Children's novelist Elle McNicoll discusses one line from Nora Ephron's romantic comedy.
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Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
Ben Anderson looks at fights over land rights, access to nature & care of the environment
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Unravelling plainness
Isabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity
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To The Lighthouse
Dr Rita Charon traces literary parallels in the responses of New Yorkers to 9/11.
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Thomas Muntzer
2/5 Luther's Reformation Gang
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They Essay - Let Me Take You There 1
Writers on personal places of refuge in times of crisis 1.Alan Hollinghurst
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There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)
A heartfelt meditation on the (in)visibilty of gay women.
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The Wings of the Dove
Finding a model for the physician in the pages of Henry James.
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The well-groomed Georgian
Alun Withey on what made 18th-century men shave off centuries of manly growth
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The Way I See It: Starry Night and Janna Levin
30 of the world's sharpest minds pick a work from MoMA's collection. How do they see it?
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The Underground Railroad
How a novel about American slavery is used to train medical students.
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The Stroma Sessions - Episode 5
Found footage drama. After Nico and Sam's disappearances, Riley is in hiding from Hilde
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The Stroma Sessions - Episode 4
With Nico gone, Riley tries to make sense of the group's situation
