The Essay Episodes Episode guide
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Late Style: Diana Hendry
Writing age: thoughts on keeping going by Diana Hendry.
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King Raedwald
Martin Carver on the inhabitant of the magnificent Sutton Hoo ship burial
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Katharina von Bora
3/5 Luther's Reformation Gang
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John Halifax, Gentleman
2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations
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Johann Walther
4/5 Luther's Reformation Gang
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Hay Festival - The Art of Storytelling: Jon Gower
Jon Gower recalls a master storyteller and tells of an meeting with The Lady of the Lake
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Hay Festival - The Art of Storytelling: Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal, artist and writer considers the idea of storytelling through objects.
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Hay Festival - The Art of Storytelling: Clemency Burton-Hill
Broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill looks at the relationship between storytelling and music
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Hay Essays: How to Write a Book - Sarah Harper
Gerontologist and aging expert Prof Sarah Harper talks about accessibility of academia.
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Hay Essays: How to Write a Book - Philippe Sands
International lawyer and author Prof Philippe Sands explains how he writes a book.
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Hay Essays: How to Write a Book - Daniel Hahn
Daniel Hahn takes us on an entertaining journey round the art of translation.
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Harold Godwinson
Clive Anderson discusses the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson.
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Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Stephen Johnson studies the audience's reaction to Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks
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Gas, oil and the Essex blues
Sam Johnson-Schlee draws links between Dr Feelgood, Canvey Island and energy policies
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Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice
Oskar Jensen tells the tall tale of a court case inspired by a best-selling novel
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From algorithms to oceans
Kerry McInerney on the promises of the 鈥榮ustainable AI鈥� movement and how AI may develop
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Francesca Rhydderch on Orlando
Francesca Rhydderch on her favourite fictional female. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018.
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Fiona Sampson on Mother Courage
Fiona Sampson on her favourite fictional female. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018.
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Edward the Confessor
Stephen Baxter creates a portrait of Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor.
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Eadfrith the Scribe
Richard Gameson explores the literary, historical and artistic legacy of scribes..
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Dear William Trevor
Ian Sansom writes to Irish novelist and playwright, William Trevor
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Dear Virginia Woolf...
A letter of apology to Virginia Woolf from novelist, Ian Sansom.
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Dear Oscar Wilde
Ian Sansom is in the gutter looking at the stars as he writes to Oscar Wilde
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Dear Mary Shelley
Ian Sansom writes to Frankenstein author, Mary Shelley, to ask her how on earth she coped
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Dear Marianne Moore
Ian Sansom writes to poet Marianne Moore and asks her about that tricorn hat
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Dear George Eliot...
Novelist Ian Sansom pens a missive to George Eliot...
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Dear Geoffrey Chaucer...
Novelist Ian Sansom fires off a letter to Geoffrey Chaucer...
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Dear Dante
Ian Sansom drops a quick line to Dante
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Dear Agatha Christie...
Novelist Ian Sansom has a theory to put to Queen of crime, Agatha Christie.
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Dance Till You Bleed: The World According to Hans Christian Andersen - Episode 5
The Wicked Prince. Thing. Toby Jones stars in five fairy-tale adaptations. 5/5
