The Essay Episodes Episode guide
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The Other Auld Alliance - Episode 1
Stuart Kelly on the role Prince Albert played in the invention of modern Scotland.
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The Essay: Walking the Causeways
W N Herbert
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The Essay: Walking the Causeways
W N Herbert
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The Essay: Gun Culture: Pistols At Dawn
John Gallagher duels with the noisy story of guns 300 years ago
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The Essay: Gun Culture: Gotham's Gun Baron
Brian DeLay reveals the life & arms deals of the most dangerous man you've never heard of
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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 9.David Constatine
Leading writers share the secrets of places of inner sanctuary 9.David Constantine
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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 8.Michael Morpurgo
leading writers on places of inner sanctuary in times of crisis 8.michael morpurgo
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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 7. Evie Wyld
leading writers on a place of inner refuge in times of crisis 7.evie wyld
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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 6.David Almond
leading writers share the secrets of their internal places of refuge in times of crisis
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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 5. Alice Oswald
Leading writers share secrets of their place of internal refuge 5.Alice Oswald
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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 4.Tessa Hadley
leading writers share the secrets of places of internal refuge in crisis 4.Tessa Hadley
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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 3. Tahmima Anam
leading writers evoke places of internal refuges which they visit in times of crisis
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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 2.Inua Ellams
Leading writers share the secrets of places of internal refuge in times of crisis
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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 10.Aida Edemariam
leading writers share their secrets of places of inner sanctuary 10.Aida Edemariam
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The Essay - Gun Culture -The Howth Mauser
Heather Jones explores the deadly symbolism of the Howth Mauser
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The Essay - Gun Culture - Sniper
Nicholas Rankin explores the emergence of the deadly 'force reducer' that is the sniper
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The Beowulf Bard
The late Seamus Heaney's exploration of the great bard of the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf.
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The Auld Alliance - Episode 4
Stuart Kelly discusses Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka and German artist Joseph Beuys
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The Auld Alliance - Episode 3
Stuart Kelly on the career of Willa Muir, who translated Kafka and other German writers.
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Taking Aim - Renaissance-style
Catherine Fletcher unveils handguns' explosive Renaissance origin
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Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the rise of the military memoir
Emma Butcher on the publishing phenomenon that was the traumatised Napoleonic Redcoat
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Sonny's Blues
How James Baldwin's short story helped break down divisions of class, age and race.
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Sibelius's Fifth Symphony
Financial Times journalist Stephen Bush on the third movement of Sibelius's Symphony No 5.
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Shostakovich: Symphony No 5
Stephen Johnson considers how Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 surprised it's first audience
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Shakespeare 400. Joan Fitzpatrick on Wolf All? Shakespeare and food
Joan explores the symbolism of food and eating in Shakespeare's plays
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Shakespeare 400. James Loxley on Undiscovered Countries: Shakespeare and the Nation
James explores the light Shakespeare throws on national identity, then and now
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Secret Admirers: Tom McKinney on Olivier Messiaen
Celebrating the birdsong-inspired music of the 20th-century French composer, Messiaen.
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Secret Admirers: Penny Gore on Leo拧 Jan谩膷ek
Celebrating a composer whose music is shot through with the uncertainties of life.
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Secret Admirers: Kathryn Tickell on Percy Grainger
Folk musician Kathryn Tickell celebrates the Australian-American folksong fanatic.
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Secret Admirers: Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue
Celebrating the French composer and her inspirational long-form sense of perspective.
