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The Essay

1antimuzak
Lug 31, 2019, 1:53 am

Wednesday 31st July 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Clemency Burton-Hill on George Enescu. Episode 3.

Radio 3 presenter Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates the Romanian composer George Enescu, whose philosophy of the profound importance of music in all areas of life has been a particular inspiration to her.

2antimuzak
Ago 1, 2019, 1:48 am

Thursday 1st August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

John Toal on Maurice Ravel. Episode 4.

John Toal celebrates French composer Maurice Ravel, whose music had a special place in the presenter's life long before he discovered an unexpected connection.

3antimuzak
Ago 5, 2019, 1:55 am

Monday 5th August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Penny Gore on Leos Janacek. Episode 1.

Penny Gore celebrates the work of composer Leos Janacek, whose music is shot through with the uncertainties of life.

4antimuzak
Set 9, 2019, 1:55 am

Monday 9th September 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Mirkwood. Episode 3.

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is joined by Mark Atherton from Oxford University for a walk through JRR Tolkien's forests, uncovering the influence of Middle English poems and legends in the creation of Middle Earth.

5antimuzak
Set 30, 2019, 1:53 am

Monday 30th September 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Ali Smith. Episode 1.

Muriel Spark, whose centenary fell in February 2018, was a Scot, an exile, a poet, a codebreaker, a convert to a particularly Calvinist form of Catholicism from a particularly low-key Judaism, and the cosmopolitan author of slender, sophisticated novels. She may be most famous for The Prime of Jean Brodie, but she wrote more than 20 novels, plus poems and plays. In this series, five Scottish women writers give five very different takes on the novels and life of Mrs Spark.

6antimuzak
Nov 11, 2019, 1:47 am

Monday 11th November 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

The Weimar Years. Episode 1.

Journalist and historian Jochen Hung presents his view of the Weimar Republic in the first of five personal takes on the period of German history.

7antimuzak
Nov 25, 2019, 1:53 am

Monday 25th November 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

The Most Incredible Thing. Episode 1.

A foolish King barters with his daughter's happiness when he issues a proclamation. Toby Jones stars as Hans Christian Andersen in The Most Incredible Thing, the first of five fairy tale adaptations by Lucy Catherine that shine a light into the dark regions of the author's mind.

Starring: Toby Jones, Clive Hayward, Scarlett Courtney, Greg Jones, Ian Conningham, Adam Courting

8antimuzak
Dic 23, 2019, 1:47 am

Monday 23rd December 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:15 (15 minutes long)

Ian Rankin on The Lord of the Flies. Episode 1.

The first of five programmes in which writers take favourite fictional stories and imagine what happened next, beginning with Ian Rankin speculating on the adult lives of Ralph and Jack from William Goldman's The Lord of the Flies.

9antimuzak
Dic 24, 2019, 1:58 am

Tuesday 24th December 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:15 (15 minutes long)

Bernardine Evaristo on Mrs Dalloway. Episode 2.

This Christmas for Radio 3, five leading writers have picked a novel they love, and written an original piece of fiction imagining what happened to the characters after the story ends. . In this Christmas Eve edition, Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo chooses Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.

10antimuzak
Dic 25, 2019, 1:52 am

Wednesday 25th December 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)

Writer AL Kennedy discusses The Wind in the Willows, and imagines what might have happened to Mole, Rat and Badger years after the Battle of Toad Hall.

11antimuzak
Gen 13, 2020, 1:47 am

Monday 13th January 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

The Lamb: John Tavener. Episode 1.

Five musicians reflect on the music that has shaped their personal lives, beginning with folk singer-songwriter Kitty Macfarlane on John Tavener's haunting song The Lamb.

12antimuzak
Feb 24, 2020, 1:56 am

ARTS: The Essay
On: BBC Radio 3 (703)
Date: Monday 24th February 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

The Art of Apology. Episode 1.

Poet Helen Mort explores the human impulse to apologise and looks at what people are seeking when they say sorry, arguing that sometimes remorse and forgiveness are only part of the story and can mask more complex emotions and subtexts.

13antimuzak
Apr 13, 2020, 1:49 am

Monday 13th April 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

The Spinster. Episode 1.

Rachel Cooke explores five versions of the single woman beginning with the spinster, a word that had positive origins but is nowadays associated with loneliness and unhappiness.

14antimuzak
Apr 27, 2020, 1:48 am

Monday 27th April 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Music: The First Theory of Everything. Episode 1.

Science writer Dr Stuart Clark traces the origins of the music of the spheres. From a blacksmith's shop in Italy, to the universal harmony sung by the universe - where the planets all revolve around the Earth. The music of the spheres was the first theory of life, the universe and everything. But is it really so different, or far-fetched, to today's theory that the universe is made up of tiny wiggling bits of string?

15antimuzak
Mag 1, 2020, 1:43 am

Friday 1st May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

The True Harmony of the Universe. Episode 5.

In his concluding essay, Stuart Clark tells the story of Johannes Kepler and his efforts - partly through deceit - to explain the movement of the planets. As science rises, so the theory of the music of the spheres is abandoned. However, for scientists today, music still matters and the ideals of the search for the first theory of everything continues to be underpinned by the symphony of the universe.

16antimuzak
Mag 25, 2020, 2:01 am

Monday 25th May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

AL Kennedy: The Towers We Founded and the Lamps We Lit. Episode 1.

The first of five programmes exploring diarists of the past through the lens of the present, beginning with AL Kennedy on the ever-restless wanderings of Robert Louis Stevenson.

17antimuzak
Ago 3, 2020, 1:52 am

Monday 3rd August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

One Book Above All Others. Episode 1.

The path students took to the events of 1968 was signposted by cultural markers. There were books to read and films to watch (often derived from literary sources) and each anticipated and shaped the response to political events that would lead to student explosions in Paris, Prague, London and New York. Michael Goldfarb remembers the books he and his contemporaries read and the films they watched. He traces the way ideas in literature and cinema are absorbed into the mind and heart and become shapers of action. In this episode, he focuses on Joseph Heller's Catch 22.

18antimuzak
Set 14, 2020, 1:46 am

Monday 14th September 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

400 Years On. Episode 1.

Five writers reflect on the impact of the Pilgrims Fathers setting sail on the Mayflower 400 years ago. In the first edition, Nick Bryant gives an overview of what the anniversary of the voyage means to America this year, at a time when that myth is under scrutiny more than ever.

19antimuzak
Set 21, 2020, 1:54 am

Monday 21st September 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Five Kinds of Beethoven. Episode 2.

Five eminent and unexpected thinkers respond to and share their personal interpretations of Beethoven, beginning with Inua Ellams, who has admired Beethoven since his childhood.

20antimuzak
Ott 1, 2020, 1:48 am

Thursday 1st October 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale. Episode 4.

The celebration of five poems written by John Keats in 1819 continues with Sasha Dugdale reflecting on Ode to a Nightingale.

21antimuzak
Ott 5, 2020, 1:52 am

Monday 5th October 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Peter Fryer. Episode 1.

Writer Colin Grant explores the stories of five individuals who have each attempted, in one way or another, to transcend or challenge the boundary of race. He begins with historian Peter Fryer, whose book Peter Fryer: Staying Power was the first comprehensive history of black people in Britain and its publication in 1984 caused great controversy because Fryer was white.

22antimuzak
Nov 23, 2020, 1:58 am

Monday 23rd November 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Should Biographers Imitate Their Subjects? Episode 6.

Martin Goodman gives a talk on the perils of writing biographies, drawing on visits to high peaks, the sea bed, coal mines and monasteries to reveal the challenges involved.

23antimuzak
Feb 15, 2021, 1:53 am

Monday 15th February 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Three Hundred Years Hence. Episode 1.

Comedian and author Viv Groskop explores five overlooked feminist literary futures, from the book that predicted the internet to the world where men have been wiped out in a gender-specific plague. She begins with Mary Griffith's Three Hundred Years Hence, often described as the first utopian novel written by a woman.

24antimuzak
Feb 16, 2021, 1:50 am

Tuesday 16th February 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Mizora: A Prophecy. Episode 2.

Comedian and author Viv Groskop discusses Mizora: A Prophecy, the 19th-century narrative written by author Mary E Bradley, who didn't want her husband to find out that she was writing about a world without men.

25antimuzak
Feb 22, 2021, 1:50 am

Monday 22nd February 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Becoming Animal. Episode 4.

Five contemporary writers investigate the boundaries between animal and human, choosing a species to become from the myriad of non-human kinds. In the first edition, poet and academic Isabel Galleymore imagines herself as a limpet clinging to a rock pool.

26antimuzak
Mar 9, 2021, 1:50 am

Tuesday 9th March 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Sarah Fielding. Episode 2.

Lucy Powell tells the story of five brilliant women, all the siblings of renowned achievers, whose own success was overlooked. Today, she tells the story of Sarah Fielding, the best-selling novelist and skilled literary critic, and younger sister to Henry Fielding.

27antimuzak
Mar 15, 2021, 2:50 am

Monday 15th March 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

The Black Lizard. Episode 1.

Five New Generation Thinkers each propose novels they consider worthy of reappraisal, beginning with Christopher Harding on Edogawa Rampo's The Black Lizard. The author was the Japanese equivalent of Arthur Conan Doyle, and Harding traces the way detective fiction chimed with the modernising of Japan.

28antimuzak
Mar 22, 2021, 2:51 am

Monday 22nd March 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

A Portrait of the Artist. Episode 1.

Jerry Brotton takes a fresh look at the Renaissance by retracing the life of Italian sculptor and artist Benvenuto Cellini through his autobiography, revealing an era that was a lot darker and more violent than many imagine.
(Episode 1)

29antimuzak
Mar 29, 2021, 1:50 am

Monday 29th March 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)

Crime and Punishment. Episode 6.

Jerry Brotton reveals how Cellini was imprisoned for over a year in Rome and endured various attempts on his life, but on his release he killed again and headed for France.
(Episode 6)

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