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Below is a list of all of the Season 656 Episodes of The Essay

Season 656

• 1. Voices, Voices, Everywhere
• 1. Three Hundred Years Hence
• 1. Living the Life
• 1. Bluebells
• 1. A City Is Not a Park
• 1. Christ Crowned with Thorns, by Dirk Bouts
• 1. An Officer and a Swimming Pool: How I Decided to Travel Blind
• 1. Dear Dante
• 1. Becoming What You Are
• 1. Gaelic Waters
• 1. True Venetian: Making Up the City
• 1. The Well-Groomed Georgian
• 1. Dodo
• 1. James Fox
• 1. A Worldwide Preoccupation
• 1. For All Mankind
• 1. Glasgow School of Art
• 1. Sidney Lumet and the Crisis of Liberalism
• 1. Forests of the Imagination
• 1. Fiona Talkington on Joseph Canteloube
• 1. Penny Gore on Leos Janacek
• 1. The Wood Beyond the World
• 1. The Liver
• 1. Sinéad Gleeson - The Pain Threshold
• 1. Ali Smith
• 1. Rehabilitating the Rev. John Trusler
• 1. Rehabilitating the Rev John Trusler
• 1. MoMA @ 90
• 1. Starry Night and Janna Levin
• 1. Los Angeles, November 2019
• 1. The Weimar Years
• 1. Philip Quaque
• 1. Ian Rankin on The Lord of the Flies
• 1. The Great Sky Above
• 1. The Lamb, by John Tavener
• 1. Jenn Ashworth - The Abiding Mental Riches of Preston
• 1. Adrian Edmondson on the Pursuit of Laughter
• 1. Deborah Frances-White on Fleabag
• 1. Charlotte Turner Smith
• 1. Vast Landscapes - The Meanings of Welsh Mountains
• 1. Snowdonia
• 1. The Piazza
• 1. Dear Albrecht Dürer
• 1. No Auction Block
• 1. No More Auction Block
• 1. The Spinster
• 1. Odes to Essex
• 1. Mark Ravenhill: The Gall Bladder
• 1. Survival
• 1. Music: The First Theory of Everything
• 1. Folk@Home
• 1. At Home with Greg Russell
• 1. Robert Louis Stevenson
• 1. Mingulay
• 1. AL Kennedy: The Towers We Founded and the Lamps We Lit
• 1. The Primacy of the Instant: CNN & Computers
• 1. Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
• 1. Fatoumata Diawara
• 1. Deer Cry Hall
• 1. Dover Beach
• 1. One Book Above All Others
• 1. A Birdsong Garden
• 1. The Great Chorus
• 1. A Romanticist Reflects on Breastfeeding
• 1. Origins
• 1. 400 Years On
• 1. Alice Oswald on Ode on a Grecian Urn
• 1. Peter Fryer
• 1. The Man with the Ship on his Head
• 1. Marseilles
• 1. Marseille
• 1. Newfoundlands
• 1. Jazz Among the British
• 1. On Not Being a Jazzer
• 1. The Dark Years
• 1. Hannah French on Barbara Strozzi
• 1. Folk at Home
• 1. At Home with Kate Stables
• 1. The Frozen River
• 1. Mug Shots
• 1. First Flight
• 1. Know Thy Selfie
• 1. Romania
• 1. Metropolitan Essex
• 1. What Is Good Acting?
• 1. Enlighten
• 1. India and the Sound of Rain
• 1. Maria Anna Mozart
• 1. A Portrait of the Artist
• 1. At Home with Sam Lee
• 1. Illington, Norfolk
• 1. The Feurtado's Fire
• 1. The People
• 1. Marian Anderson
• 1. Setting Off
• 1. Flying Our Own Flag
• 1. Sugar Sugar
• 1. Sara Collins on Una Marson
• 1. Hirofumi Daimatsu
• 1. Flint
• 1. Sacred Monsters
• 1. At Home with Fatoumata Diawara
• 1. Joni Mitchell and Change
• 1. Ted Hughes and Animal Encounters
• 1. Milk of the World by Sema Kaygusuz
• 1. Elevenses
• 1. The Great White Silence
• 1. A Death in My Family
• 1. Traybakes
• 1. The End of Ritual?
• 1. Raymond Antrobus
• 1. Hilma af Klint's The Ten Largest
• 1. Bird Song and Resonance
• 1. Marijuana Made Me
• 1. The Cantiaci
• 1. Anne Enright on Telemachus
• 1. Armando Iannucci
• 1. Body Armour
• 1. Unread
• 1. In the Dark
• 1. Kate Davis on Thomas Hardy
• 1. Wold
• 1. An Invitation to Silence
• 1. Oksana Maksymchuk
• 1. Oksana Maksymchuk - Hear Their Words
• 1. Walking with the Ghosts of the Durham Coalfield
• 1. Falling in Love Again
• 1. Tupac
• 1. Lauren Elkin on Oscar Wilde
• 1. Actors
• 1. The Mower
• 1. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
• 1. Sign Language Through the Ages
• 1. Helen Cross
• 1. Tishani Doshi
• 1. Clare Shaw
• 1. 1920s, Reviving Old Ayres
• 1. Finding a Way
• 1. Communication Withheld
• 1. Pennie Stuart on Cancer Recovery Above Loch Ness
• 1. In the Minds of Dogs
• 1. Chastity and Lots of Praying
• 1. The Benefit of Doubt
• 1. Black South African Cuisine
• 1. Adolf Wölfli
• 1. The Paradise Crater
• 1. Patrick Gale
• 1. Out to Open Water
• 1. My Life on a Bike
• 1. The South African Bloomsberries
• 1. Richard Eyre on King Lear
• 1. Black Luce
• 1. Lucy Baynham
• 1. The Strange Case of Signor Gioanni
• 1. Emmenez-moi, by Muriel Zagha
• 1. Naomi Alderman on Mary Wollstonecraft
• 1. Liz Berry on Gorge Road, Sedgley
• 1. Susannah Dickey: Two Pills
• 1. William Styron: The Confessions of Nat Turner
• 1. William Styron
• 1. Town
• 1. Listen
• 1. The Soul of Music
• 1. The Reindeer
• 1. Creative
• 1. Ears
• 1. Sheila Rowbotham
• 1. On Reading The Making of the English Working Class
• 1. Malika Booker
• 1. Tapioca
• 1. Vivaldi
• 1. Singing, Dancing and Having a Laugh: The Backbone of Variety
• 1. The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Pilot Gig
• 1. Frida Kahlo
• 1. Dear Katherine Mansfield...
• 1. Moments of Being
• 1. Milord
• 1. Hildaland
• 1. Tarik O'Regan
• 1. Good Vibrations
• 1. Ruth Montgomery
• 1. Pickin' Tatties Near Arboath
• 1. How Happy I Am
• 1. The Early Years
• 1. Dawn
• 1. Teresa del Riego's suffrage anthem
• 1. Julian Lloyd Webber
• 1. Brendan Cowell - Storage
• 1. Fritz Kreisler
• 1. China's Tin Pan Alley - Xinjiekou Street in Beijing
• 1. Gold
• 1. Spring
• 1. Recasting Ella: Philanthropist
• 1. The Rue Boissonade
• 1. Georgia Mann on Antonio Vivaldi
• 1. Stone
• 1. Dissociation
• 1. City of Dreams: Vienna, Psychoanalysis and Me
• 1. Wanda Landowska
• 1. 17/03/3025
• 1. Technicolor Wars
• 1. Land Cinema
• 1. Mystery
• 1. Mount Qaf
• 1. Norfolk
• 1. Kim Moore, Trumpet
• 1. Who Wrote Carmen?
• 1. Fibonacci
• 1. The Sensible Thing Was to Kill Him
• 2. Sara Saleh - From Povo to Poet
• 2. Stephen Marquiss
• 2. Turkiye's Tin Pan Alley - Galip Dede Street in Istanbul
• 2. Agate
• 2. Summer
• 2. 02/01/2024
• 2. Wood
• 2. Poetry
• 2. A Philosophical Forgery?
• 2. Monks, Music and Mussolini
• 2. Mothers on Trial
• 2. Howard's End
• 2. Paul Bailey
• 2. Mysticism
• 2. Kunlun Shan
• 2. Sibelius's Fifth Symphony
• 2. Joe Orton and Edward Bond
• 2. Timothy Rundle, Oboe
• 2. When the Librettist Was King
• 2. The Sibelius Report
• 2. Forgotten Feminist Futures
• 2. Mizora: A Prophecy
• 2. The Terminology
• 2. Orchids
• 2. Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
• 2. Christ Before Pilate by the Master of Cappenberg
• 2. Why There are 300 Seconds in a Blind Minute
• 2. Dear Mary
• 2. Under the Mountain
• 2. Islanders
• 2. Sword to Pen. Redcoat and the Rise of the Military Memoir
• 2. Arthur Cravan Is Not Alive
• 2. Lauren Elkin
• 2. Music Monologues
• 2. Multitaskers and Gorillas
• 2. Rochdale Town Hall
• 2. The Meaning of Sam
• 2. Ian McMillan on Ralph Vaughan Williams
• 2. Tom McKinney on Olivier Messiaen
• 2. Forest Folk
• 2. Brothers Grimm
• 2. The Eyes
• 2. Stephen Sexton - The Tory Islanders
• 2. Kate Clanchy
• 2. The Forgotten German Princess
• 2. Steve Martin and the Lonely Synchromists
• 2. The Year of Blade Runner 2: Sounds of the Future Past
• 2. Isaac
• 2. Bernardine Evaristo on Mrs Dalloway
• 2. Omens in the Heavens
• 2. Rockin' in Rhythm by Duke Ellington sung by Ella Fitzgerald
• 2. Michael Donkor - On Wandsworth Bridge
• 2. Susan Calman on Victoria Wood
• 2. Home Sweet Home
• 2. The Black Mountains
• 2. La Strada
• 2. Dear Picasso
• 2. Ol' Man River
• 2. The Odd Woman
• 2. Career Girls
• 2. Christina Patterson: The Skin
• 2. Adventure
• 2. The Sound of the Moon
• 2. At Home with Rachel Unthank
• 2. 05/05/2020
• 2. Edward Wilson
• 2. Hoy
• 2. Jura
• 2. AL Kennedy
• 2. New Business Models: Debt & Gannett
• 2. AL Kennedy: Hope On, Hope Ever
• 2. The Lost World of the LP
• 2. Digging Deep
• 2. At Home with Chris Wood
• 2. Happy Families
• 2. Kei Miller - The Important Things
• 2. French Philosophy
• 2. Gladstone's Library
• 2. Fredric March
• 2. Summer in the Vale
• 2. A Focus on Fasting
• 2. Artists
• 2. Squanto
• 2. Five Kinds of Beethoven
• 2. Sean O'Brien on Ode on Melancholy
• 2. John Howard Griffin
• 2. The Boy with the Monkey on His Back
• 2. Africa in the City - Philadelphia
• 2. Philadelphia
• 2. Old English Sheepdogs
• 2. The British Audience
• 2. The Moss Lairds
• 2. Elizabeth Alker on Sofia Gubaidulina
• 2. At Home with Tenzin Choegyal
• 2. Cairn Toul
• 2. Portraits of Love and Hate
• 2. Naoshima
• 2. Washed Up in Essex
• 2. How to Become an Actor?
• 2. Japan and the Taste of Rain
• 2. Sarah Fielding
• 2. John Halifax, Gentleman
• 2. Overture
• 2. At Home with Stick in the Wheel
• 2. Wetherden, Suffolk
• 2. Education
• 2. Wedgwood
• 2. Tirana
• 2. The Deaf Club
• 2. Smoked Out
• 2. Nicola Barker
• 2. Lewisian Gneiss
• 2. The Glass Constellations
• 2. Bob Dylan as Bhakti Poet
• 2. Ted Hughes v Philip Larkin
• 2. Lunch
• 2. Island Isolation
• 2. Obligations
• 2. Searching with Shorelines
• 2. Shaping Time
• 2. Wassily Kandinsky's 'Composition V'
• 2. Meditation on Landscape, Bodies and Writing
• 2. Burkina Faso's Incorruptible People and the Drum
• 2. Cornwall - People, Land and Worship
• 2. John Patrick McHugh on Calypso
• 2. Clive Myrie
• 2. In a Handbag
• 2. Sounds from Armenian Childhood
• 2. The Swing Bridge
• 2. The Castle Keep
• 2. David Bower on Tom Waits
• 2. Fen
• 2. The Wild Track
• 2. We Come from Odesa - Boris and Ludmila Khersonsky
• 2. Contesting an Alphabet
• 2. Kipling
• 2. Windows
• 2. Absences
• 2. Romm Smith
• 2. 1930s, Creating a National Music
• 2. Shakespeare in War and Peace
• 2. Forms of Communication
• 2. Katharine Norbury on the Thames
• 2. In the Country of Whales
• 2. Katharine Norbury on Companionship on the Thames
• 2. Liberated Women
• 2. Where Am I?
• 2. White South African Food
• 2. Madge Gill
• 2. Iola Leroy
• 2. Whipping Up a Storm
• 2. The Cyclist as Overdog and Underdog
• 2. Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea
• 2. Michelle Terry on As You Like It
• 2. John Blanke
• 2. The Trial
• 2. La Boheme (1965)
• 2. Tracy Chevalier on Thomas Hardy
• 2. Nandi Jola: Neither Here Nor There
• 2. Emma Purshouse on St Bart's Church, Wednesbury
• 2. Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka: Dutchman/The Toilet
• 2. Grave
• 2. With Faint Dry Sound
• 2. Sophie Stone
• 2. The Bee Cello
• 2. The Sea Eagle
• 2. Love
• 2. Multitrack - Rhythm of the Run
• 2. Departure
• 2. Geoff Andrews
• 2. Jeremy Dyson
• 2. Summer Pudding
• 2. Gokkle o' Geer: Ventriloquists and their Dummies
• 2. Dear Joseph Conrad...
• 2. A Museum in the Making
• 2. L'Accordeoniste
• 2. Germany's Mary Wollstonecraft
• 2. The Isle of Demons
• 2. Paul Muldoon on WB Yeats
• 2. John Rutter
• 2. Stylistic Similarities
• 2. Nigel Braithwaite
• 2. Writers
• 2. Time Has told Me
• 2. Harmonies
• 3. Charles Boyer
• 3. Herland
• 3. The Importance of Noise
• 3. Daffodils
• 3. Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
• 3. Christ as the Man of Sorrows by Jacobello del Bonomo
• 3. Sight Seeing? Or Hear Listening
• 3. Dear Oscar
• 3. For Everyone and No One
• 3. The Art of Zen Fly Fishing
• 3. Import/Export
• 3. Alex Wheatle
• 3. Reluctant Spirit
• 3. Comrades in Arms
• 3. Nicholas Shakespeare
• 3. Escaping the Onslaught
• 3. Malcolm's Place, Uig, Isle of Lewis
• 3. The Summation
• 3. Clemency Burton-Hill on George Enescu
• 3. Kathryn Tickell on Percy Grainger
• 3. Outlaws of the Forest
• 3. Mirkwood
• 3. The Blood
• 3. Wendy Erskine - Knock Knock Who's There?
• 3. Janice Galloway
• 3. Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia
• 3. MOMA @ 90
• 3. Jason Moran & Piet Mondrian
• 3. More Human Than Human - Ken Hollings
• 3. Legacies of 1619
• 3. Sarah Forbes Bonetta
• 3. Cosmic Revelations
• 3. Disko Partizani by Shantel
• 3. Strange Strolls
• 3. Stephanie Victoire - Dark Hollow Falls
• 3. Margaret Oliphant
• 3. The Brecon Beacons
• 3. Walls
• 3. Dear Julia Margaret Cameron
• 3. Paul Robeson in 5 Songs
• 3. The Canoe Song
• 3. The Divorcee
• 3. Daljit Nagra: The Lungs
• 3. Seasons
• 3. Our Inner Music
• 3. Folk @ Home
• 3. At Home with Nathaniel Mann
• 3. 06/05/2020
• 3. Dorothy Wordsworth
• 3. Staffa
• 3. Foreign Correspondent
• 3. Helen Mort: More Than Enough
• 3. Coming out Crip and Acts of Care
• 3. At Home with Lisa O'Neill
• 3. Rebranding the Buddha
• 3. Czech Cinema
• 3. Autumn Passage
• 3. Resisting Tyranny
• 3. Disorder
• 3. John Alden
• 3. Frances Leviston on Ode to Autumn
• 3. Bert Williams
• 3. The Man with the French horn
• 3. Kingston
• 3. Poodles
• 3. Yorkshire
• 3. Americans in Britain
• 3. The Colossus of Roads
• 3. Ian Skelly on Jean Mouton
• 3. At Home with Lizabett Russo
• 3. The Sundial
• 3. Fame and Infamy
• 3. Lorenzo Lotto
• 3. The Refusal of Place
• 3. On Stage and On Screen
• 3. Australia and the Smell of Rain
• 3. Fanny Dickens
• 3. Sindhubala
• 3. Storming the Capitol
• 3. At Home with Germa Adan
• 3. A Social History of Soup
• 3. Dunwich, Suffolk
• 3. Art
• 3. Eric Bentley
• 3. The Schindler House
• 3. North and South
• 3. Big D versus Little D
• 3. Fegato Per Due
• 3. AL Kennedy on The Wind in the Willows
• 3. Kamila Shamsie
• 3. North Sea Oil and Gas
• 3. Hell's Rainbow
• 3. Freedom Song
• 3. Crows, Loss and a Violent Melancholia
• 3. Hide and Seek by Lorenza Pieri
• 3. Afternoon Tea
• 3. The Wake
• 3. Conscientious Objector
• 3. The Art of Staying
• 3. Rituals of State
• 3. Estella Canziani's 'The Piper of Dreams'
• 3. Leaf of Life
• 3. The Parisi
• 3. Colm Toibin on Sirens
• 3. Drama, Dressing-Up and Droopy & Browns
• 3. Peace at Last
• 3. Benwell Temple
• 3. Kate Fox on Doctor Who
• 3. Mountain
• 3. In a Monastery Garden
• 3. Lyuba Yakimchuk
• 3. African Cinema, Nationhood and Liberation
• 3. Dante
• 3. Going for a Walk
• 3. Water
• 3. Craigie Hill
• 3. Adrian McNally
• 3. 1940s, New Life for Old Music
• 3. A Century of Juliets
• 3. Visibility of Communication
• 3. Amy Liptrot on Motherhood in the Woods
• 3. In the Company of Walruses
• 3. Amy Liptrot on Motherhood in Owl Woods
• 3. Class and the Convent
• 3. In the Bottom of the Well
• 3. Coloured South African Food
• 3. Mary Barnes
• 3. Garbage Hills
• 3. Cycling Apparel
• 3. A Family of Witches
• 3. Professor Islam Issa on Julius Caesar
• 3. John Cabot
• 3. I, Wincklemann
• 3. Après l'amour, by Paul Morley
• 3. Helen Mort on Sylvia Plath
• 3. Nick Laird: Animal Life
• 3. Brendan Hawthorne on Toll End Road, Tipton
• 3. Norman Mailer: Why Are We In Vietnam/Armies of the Night
• 3. Quarry
• 3. Nitin Sawhney
• 3. The Auschwitz Cello
• 3. The Wallabies
• 3. Food
• 3. Multitrack - An Turas/The Journey
• 3. Watching
• 3. Christienna Fryer
• 3. Michelle Scally Clarke
• 3. Crème Brûlée
• 3. It's The Animal In Me: Animal Acts in Variety Theatre
• 3. Dear Clarice Lispector...
• 3. Les Amants d'un jour
• 3. Weird Viking Bodies
• 3. Diana Souhami on Radclyffe Hall
• 3. Benbrick
• 3. Chisato Minamimura
• 3. Sowing Oats in Ceredigion
• 3. Banks of Sicily
• 3. Thrush Nightingales
• 3. Robin Graham
• 3. Farz Edraki - The Other Mother
• 3. Putting the Whales in Wales
• 3. Japan's Tin Pan Alley - Ochanomizu in Tokyo
• 3. Aquamarine
• 3. Autumn
• 3. 03/01/2024
• 3. Composers, singers - and Chopin's piano
• 3. Pottery
• 3. Moving Images
• 3. Losing Yourself in Books
• 3. A Classic of Italian Music
• 3. The Crime of Creation
• 3. Spirited Away
• 3. Hnitbjorg
• 3. The Tiger Who Came to Tea
• 3. I, Winckelmann
• 3. Harold Pinter
• 3. Yolanda Charles, Bass Guitar
• 3. Adaptations
• 3. Stravinsky Goes Pop
• 4. Ludwig Quandt
• 4. Luka Lesson
• 4. Spain's Tin Pan Alley - Centro, Madrid
• 4. Serpentine
• 4. Winter
• 4. Nina Simone: Politics
• 4. Writers and Spirituality
• 4. Leather
• 4. Literature
• 4. Episode 4
• 4. Chiquinha Gonzaga
• 4. Let's murder Vivaldi
• 4. Birth Stories
• 4. Workplace Performance
• 4. Mount Killaraus
• 4. Field of Dreams
• 4. Hampshire
• 4. America
• 4. Gurdain Rayatt, tabla
• 4. Working with the composer
• 4. Community
• 4. Your Master's Voice
• 4. The Female Man
• 4. Are DJs Doomed?
• 4. Lavender
• 4. Shopping Around the Baby Market
• 4. The Crucifixion by the Master of Delft
• 4. The Importance of Imagination
• 4. Dear Marianne
• 4. A Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
• 4. Power and Glory
• 4. True Venetian: Exhibitions and Exhibitionism
• 4. Alys Conran
• 4. Music Monologues
• 4. Every Night
• 4. 'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat? The history of the three-piece suit
• 4. Rachel Cooke
• 4. Prayer and Snake Oil
• 4. Trinity Theatre
• 4. The Ghost of the Time
• 4. John Toal on Maurice Ravel
• 4. Andrew McGregor on Thomas Tallis
• 4. Scents of the Forest
• 4. The Ear
• 4. Ed Vulliamy - Forever Young
• 4. Val McDermid
• 4. John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet
• 4. MoMA @ 90
• 4. Neri Oxman and the Endless House
• 4. Zhora and the Snake - Beth Singler
• 4. Mama Dzagba, Mary Prince and Sally Hemings
• 4. Elif Shafak on Anna Karenina
• 4. Touching the Night
• 4. The Protecting Veil by John Tavener
• 4. Nat Segnit
• 4. Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf
• 4. Women Writers to put back on the Bookshelf - Storm Jameson
• 4. Storm Jameson
• 4. Epynt
• 4. The Garden
• 4. Dear Frida Kahlo
• 4. Zog Nit Keynmol
• 4. Widows
• 4. Naomi Alderman: The Intestines
• 4. Lifestyle
• 4. Music and Astronomy in Crisis
• 4. At Home with Owen Shiers
• 4. Graham Greene
• 4. Barra
• 4. The Cult of the Presenter
• 4. The Power of the Thames
• 4. Tudor Virtual Reality
• 4. At Home with Suhail Yusuf Khan
• 4. The Art of the Heist
• 4. Marx, Mao, Marcuse
• 4. The Winter Flock
• 4. The Leaves, Frost-crisp'd, Break from the Trees
• 4. A Tale of Restoration Murder, Barbarous and Inhumane
• 4. Family
• 4. Susanna White-Winslow
• 4. Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale
• 4. Sandra Laing
• 4. Andrew Biswell
• 4. Fort-de-France
• 4. Dachshunds
• 4. Stan Tracey
• 4. The Great Glen
• 4. At Home with Falle Nioke
• 4. Jumoké Fashola on Nina Simone
• 4. Garbh Choire
• 4. Sitting - Our Place in the World
• 4. Brightening from the East
• 4. Iceland
• 4. Ivories
• 4. Becoming Animal
• 4. Paris and the Look of Rain
• 4. Shakespeare's Sisters
• 4. Death in Florence
• 4. Inglesham, Wiltshire
• 4. Robert McFerrin
• 4. Belonging
• 4. It's One Rule For Them
• 4. Jen McDerra on Gladys Lindo
• 4. Ian Sansom
• 4. Gypsum and Alabaster
• 4. Gutted Arcades
• 4. Gumboots
• 4. Ted Hughes and The River of Time
• 4. A Piece of Cake by Nicolas Ancion
• 4. The Lost Hours of the Afternoon
• 4. Voices in the Dark
• 4. The Worst Possible War
• 4. Chalk on the Wall
• 4. Rituals and the Life Cycle
• 4. The Fall of the House of Crosskill
• 4. Queen Cartimandua
• 4. Mary Costello on Ithaca
• 4. Thomas Guthrie
• 4. An Alternative History of Uniforms
• 4. Segedunum Fort
• 4. The Castle Keep in Newcastle with Tara Bergin
• 4. Rachael Boast on The Book of Job
• 4. Island
• 4. Losing Silence and Finding It Again
• 4. Oksana Lutsyshyna - I Dream of Explosions
• 4. Ruffs in Jamestown
• 4. Where Have All the Flowers Gone
• 4. Sunflowers
• 4. Musicians
• 4. Ambulances
• 4. Vaughan Willliams - Luke Turner
• 4. 1950s and 60s, Performance in Period Style
• 4. Ownership of Communication
• 4. Louise Kenward on the ocean as a mirror
• 4. In the Land of Reindeer
• 4. Louise Kenward on the ocean as mirror at Bexhill-on-Sea
• 4. The Rebels
• 4. Are we done?
• 4. South African Indian Food
• 4. Minnie Evans
• 4. The Heir of Redclyffe
• 4. WN Herbert
• 4. Scoop
• 4. Katharine Wright
• 4. Shearwater Nights
• 4. A Bike Ride
• 4. Fugitive Slaves, Victorian Justice
• 4. Sir David Hare on Macbeth
• 4. Aura Soltana
• 4. From the Depths
• 4. The Old Fashioned Way, by Paul French
• 4. Brandon Taylor on Langston Hughes
• 4. Darran Anderson: Map Making
• 4. RM Francis on Wren's Nest, Dudley
• 4. Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint
• 4. Reformation: Losing Silence
• 4. Field
• 4. Queen Cartimandua and the Brigantes
• 4. The Shipwrecked Cello
• 4. Politics
• 4. Crossing
• 4. David Aaronovitch
• 4. Ian Duhig
• 4. Pavlova
• 4. Girls! Girls! Girls! Women in Variety
• 4. The Coble
• 4. Dear Octavia Butler...
• 4. 14/02/2024
• 4. From algorithms to oceans
• 4. Frisland
• 4. Anita Sethi on Anne Brontë
• 4. Sally Beamish
• 4. Musical gardens
• 4. Paul Whittaker OBE
• 4. Dig Where You Stand
• 4. Death in the Yarrow Valley
• 4. Couldn't Love You More
• 4. Poems of Mayo
• 4. Trees
• 4. Esther Inglis's musical self portraits
• 4. 4. Ludwig Quandt
• 5. One Bar Electric Memoir
• 5. Cary Grant
• 5. Woman on the Edge of Time
• 5. The Rock 'n' Roll Funeral
• 5. Healthy Eating Edwardian Style
• 5. The Incredulity of St Thomas by Guercino
• 5. How I See with My Feet
• 5. Dear William
• 5. The Art of Ending
• 5. Swimming the Avon
• 5. Women's Work
• 5. Robinson Crusoe at Hay
• 5. The Hard Man in the Call-Centre
• 5. Lavinia Greenlaw
• 5. Le Festival de Men
• 5. Beyond the Crisis of Attention
• 5. Rame Head Chapel
• 5. The Women in the Cutting Room and Elsewhere
• 5. Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue
• 5. 100 Acre Wood
• 5. The Nose
• 5. Philip Hoare - The Haunted Sea
• 5. Louise Welsh
• 5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Woman's Rights
• 5. Steven Pinker and Picasso
• 5. Fiery the Angels Fell - David Thomson
• 5. Slavery's Untold Stories
• 5. John Ocansey
• 5. Philippa Gregory on Jane Eyre
• 5. Above the Night
• 5. Now, oh now I needs must part by John Dowland arranged by Percy Grainger
• 5. Sophie Coulombeau
• 5. Stephen K Amos on Redd Foxx
• 5. Yolande Mukagasana
• 5. The Preseli Mountains
• 5. The Church
• 5. Dear Caravaggio
• 5. Joe Hill
• 5. `The Odd Woman", or Celebrating Five Single Females
• 5. Aunts
• 5. Ned Beauman: The Appendix
• 5. Obsession
• 5. The True Harmony of the Universe
• 5. Let Me Take You There
• 5. At Home with Karine Polwart
• 5. Alice Oswald
• 5. Christopher Isherwood
• 5. The Holy Island
• 5. In My End Is My Beginning: Freelancing in an Online World
• 5. Not Quite Jean Muir
• 5. Prison Break
• 5. Eliza Carthy
• 5. Crosby Beach
• 5. Japan Refusal
• 5. Race
• 5. The Spring Revival
• 5. Toccata
• 5. Dining with the Nightmare
• 5. Fate
• 5. Metacom
• 5. Paul Batchelor on Ode to Psyche
• 5. Michael Manley
• 5. The Woman with the Spoon
• 5. Cape Town
• 5. Cocker Spaniels
• 5. Sonny Rollins
• 5. The Last Wolf
• 5. At Home with Peter Broderick
• 5. The Wells of Dee
• 5. Heads, Bodies and Legs
• 5. Anselm Kiefer
• 5. The Essex Way
• 5. Acting Unrehearsed
• 5. Orchestra
• 5. Wind
• 5. Britain and the Touch of Rain
• 5. Madame E Toussaint Welcome
• 5. There's No Story There
• 5. The Scorpion
• 5. Hoarding or Collecting?
• 5. St Barnabas Jericho, Oxford
• 5. Vera Hall
• 5. Magdalene Odundo
• 5. King Zog - and Time to Leave
• 5. Hearing in a Deaf World
• 5. A Boy Named Sue
• 5. Lucy Hughes Hallett
• 5. Clay Bricks
• 5. The Haunted Lullaby
• 5. Kalavati and Abhogi Have Good Vibrations
• 5. Ted Hughes and Tenderness
• 5. A Day at the Beach by Emilienne Malfatto
• 5. The Cocktail Hour
• 5. Journey to the Centre of the Earth
• 5. Enough About the War, Dad
• 5. Euphoria
• 5. The Reinvention of Ritual
• 5. Alinah Azadeh
• 5. Donna Huddleston's 'Witch Dance'
• 5. The Binoculars of Jah
• 5. The Demetae
• 5. Nuala O'Connor on Penelope
• 5. Frank Cottrell-Boyce
• 5. Boy with a Pearl Earring
• 5. The Spirit of Antenociticus
• 5. Tom Shakespeare on JRR Tolkien
• 5. Moor
• 5. Good Silence, Bad Silence
• 5. Vasyl Makhno
• 5. Vasyl Makhno - My Personal History of War
• 5. John Baptist Dasalu and Fighting for Freedom
• 5. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
• 5. Carrots
• 5. Beats
• 5. Going
• 5. Shostakovich's Second Piano Trio
• 5. Essay 3: Amanda Dalton - poet/dramatist
• 5. 1970s, Into the Mainstream
• 5. Unspoken Communication
• 5. Amanda Thomson on slowing down in Abernethy Forest
• 5. In the Lives of Salmon
• 5. A Dying Breed
• 5. Prepared Minds
• 5. Cape Malay South African Cuisine
• 5. Shinichi Sawada
• 5. 1000 Coils of Fear
• 5. Ben Cottam
• 5. What Has the Sea Become
• 5. Reasons to Cycle
• 5. Revolutionary Free Speech
• 5. Professor Dame Marina Warner on Othello
• 5. Manteo
• 5. The Meaning of Nowhere
• 5. They Fell, by Nare Mkrtchyan
• 5. Geoff Dyer on DH Lawrence
• 5. Bernie McGill: Our Art
• 5. Roy McFarlane on Bilston
• 5. Joan Williams: Old Powder
• 5. Monument
• 5. And Fall
• 5. Thangam Debbonaire
• 5. England and the Touch of Rain
• 5. The Flat-Pack Cello
• 5. Travel
• 5. Return
• 5. Natasha Carthew
• 5. Khadijah Ibrahiim
• 5. Christmas Pudding
• 5. Breaking Class
• 5. How Did They Do That? Magic and Mesmerism
• 5. The Essex Smack
• 5. Dear John le Carré...
• 5. Miracle
• 5. Non, je ne regrette rien
• 5. Saint Brendan's Isle
• 5. Paterson Joseph on Ignatius Sancho
• 5. Errollyn Wallen
• 5. Cultivate wellbeing
• 5. Elizabeth Elliott
• 5. The Fairy and the Fiddler in Arnisdale
• 5. Song Diary of a Dying Man
• 5. Poems of Love and Ageing
• 5. The Arnisdale Fiddler and the Fairy
• 5. Don't You Think We're Forever
• 5. Night
• 5. Chorus Girls in Paris
• 5. Rebecca Toal and Hattie Butterworth
• 5. Daniel Browning - Out of Place
• 5. Indonesia's Tin Pan Alley - Tihingan in Bali
• 5. Amber
• 5. Anthropocene
• 5. Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
• 5. The Living and the Dead
• 5. Metal
• 5. Time
• 5. Lisztomania: Music, mood and mass hysteria!
• 5. Episode 5
• 5. Philippa Schuyler
• 5. Going digital
• 5. Bette Davis
• 5. Digging for Words
• 5. The company of radio
• 5. The intimacy of radio
• 5. Bald Mountain
• 5. Frida Kahlo's Broken Column
• 5. Newcastle
• 5. The iconic roles
• 5. Zoe Martlew, cello
• 5. What makes a good libretto?
• 5. Lost and Found
• 5. Satie's Aleph
• 6. Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century
• 6. Steve Reich on Richard Serra's Equal
• 6. David Almond
• 6. Should Biographers Imitate Their Subjects?
• 6. Blood and Bronze
• 6. Crime and Punishment
• 6. Battlefield Finds
• 6. Imagining Boudicca
• 6. A Brazilian Soprano in Jazz-Age Paris
• 6. The Discordant Tale of Thomas Weelkes
• 6. Chinano the Turk
• 6. The Laundries
• 7. Who Wrote Animal Farm?
• 7. Margaret Cho and Lady Vengeance
• 7. Beastly Politics
• 7. Golden Years
• 7. Colonial Papers
• 7. The Maeatae
• 7. The Paradox of Ecological Art
• 7. Children of the Waters
• 7. Mary Fillis
• 8. Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die?
• 8. Doro Olowu on William H Johnson's 'Children"
• 8. Doro Olowu on William H Johnson's Children
• 8. Michael Morpurgo
• 8. Forging the Renaissance
• 8. Beyond the Betting Shop
• 8. The Druids
• 8. Alexander and the Persians
• 8. Stupid Victorians
• 8. Roderigo Lopez
• 8. In Search of the Druids
• 9. The Ottoman Empire, Power and the Sea
• 9. The Way I See It - Michael Bierut on Ed Ruscha's `OOF"
• 9. Michael Bierut on Ed Ruscha's `OOF"
• 9. Michael Bierut on Ed Ruscha's OOF
• 9. Politician and Pioneer: Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh
• 9. Sex and Death
• 9. A Norwegian Morality Tale
• 9. Pytheas and the Sea
• 9. Land and Soil Politics
• 9. Mohammed al-Annuri
• 9. What does feminist art mean?
• 10. Where Do Human Rights Come From?
• 10. John Waters on Lee Lozano's `Untitled 1963"
• 10. John Waters on Lee Lozano's Untitled 1963
• 10. Aida Edemariam
• 10. When Shakespeare Travelled with Me
• 10. Rebirth
• 10. Iron Age Arthur
• 10. Fighting the Colour Bar
• 10. Emilia Lanyer
• 10. Arthur Begins
• 10. Unravelling plainness
• 11. The Way I See It
• 11. Roxane Gay and Christ's Entry into Journalism
• 11. Lindow Man
• 12. The Way I See It
• 12. Es Devlin on Felix Gonzalez-Torres' Perfect Lovers
• 12. The Roman Orbit
• 13. The Way I See It
• 13. Hisham Matar with Man Sleeping Along the Seine
• 13. The Atrebates
• 14. Renee Fleming Chooses Colours for a Large Wall
• 14. The Durotriges
• 15. The Director's Choice
• 15. Maidens, Matriarchs & Crones

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