The Essay Episodes Available now
Squanto—Mayflower Portraits
2/5 Margaret Verble considers the role of Squanto in the Mayflower myth.
400 years on—Mayflower Portraits
1/5 Nick Bryant reflectis on what the Mayflower 400th anniversary means to Americans in 2020.
The Spring Revival—A Birdsong Garden
5/5 Gas guns to peewits to witnessing the intimate song of the blackbird like never before.
The Winter Flock—A Birdsong Garden
4/5 Escape amongst the haunting sounds of the owls on a cold winter鈥檚 night.
Autumn Passage—A Birdsong Garden
3/5 Chiffchaff鈥檚 first words, and the swallows come... and go.
Summer in the Vale—A Birdsong Garden
2/5 The nightingales stand silent as a solar eclipse sweeps through the Vale of Whittingham.
The Great Chorus—A Birdsong Garden
1/5 Redstarts and warblers are the stars in the dawn chorus of May.
Mantra—Culture in Quarantine: Sounds of Silence
5/5 Unlocking the power of the breath with mantra meditation during the global crisis.
Seeds—Culture in Quarantine: Sounds of Silence
4/5 A cellist plants the seeds of her future in the Scottish Highlands.
Human—Culture in Quarantine: Sounds of Silence
3/5 A beatboxer wrestles with the silence of his mind during the global crisis.
