The Essay Episodes Available now
Paris: The Christmas Truce—World War One Round the World, Series 1
1/5 Christian Carion asks what the mud and degradation of WWI did to the idea of heroism.
5. Suzanne Joinson - 'Somebody Else's Story'—I've Never Told Anyone This Before
5/5 Novelist and market enthusiast Suzanne Joinson shares a story she has never told before.
Jane Stevenson - An Uneasy Feeling—I've Never Told Anyone This Before
4/5 Writer Jane Stevenson tells the true story of an unusual encounter during house-hunting.
Erica Wagner - A History of My Family in One Object—I've Never Told Anyone This Before
3/5 Erica Wagner examines her mother's stories about her father and an unusual wedding gift.
Kei Miller - The Important Things—I've Never Told Anyone This Before
2/5 The Forward Prize-winning Jamaican poet, novelist and critic examines some awkward truths.
Tod Wodicka - The Reluctant Shaman—I've Never Told Anyone This Before
1/5 Writer Tod Wodicka describes suffering terrifying night terrors when he was younger.
Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Fi Glover—Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio
5/5 Broadcaster Fi Glover on how radio voices 'make the global local and the local global'.
Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Roger Phillips—Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio
4/5 Roger Phillips describes his job as the listening anchorman of a daily phone-in programme.
Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: David Hendy—Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio
3/5 Media professor and historian David Hendy on early anxieties about radio's power.
Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Olivia O'Leary—Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio
2/5 Journalist and broadcaster Olivia O'Leary describes the influence of radio on her.
