The Essay Episodes Available now
Anthony Horowitz—Happily Ever After
1/5 Anthony Horowitz explores family dysfunction through Roald Dahl's Matilda.
Episode 5—The Sound and the Fury
5/5 Andrew Martin describes how in order to escape noise, he goes on a retreat in Essex.
Episode 4—The Sound and the Fury
4/5 Andrew Martin looks to the skies, to those rumblings that always discombobulate him.
Episode 3—The Sound and the Fury
3/5 Andrew Martin on his boyhood love of train travel and noises on public transport today.
Episode 2—The Sound and the Fury
2/5 Andrew Martin laments 'piped music' and what he considers to be its worsening quality.
Episode 1—The Sound and the Fury
1/5 Andrew Martin explains 'phonophobia' and the strange measures he takes to banish it.
The Canon of Comics—New Generation Thinkers, 2011
5/5 Jon Adams compares the work of modern comic book enthusiasts to ancient biblical scholars.
Looking beyond the Dead—New Generation Thinkers, 2011
4/5 Zoe Norridge ask why photos of Africa fix perceptions of the continent at its worst times.
Light in the Dark—New Generation Thinkers, 2011
3/5 Alexandra Harris explores the history of artificial light through literary sources.
Parallels and Paradoxes—New Generation Thinkers, 2011
2/5 Shahidha Bari examines the ideas behind the founding of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
