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The Essay Episodes

    AL Kennedy on The Wind in the WillowsOpen Endings

    3/5 AL Kennedy chooses Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows

    Bernardine Evaristo on Mrs DallowayOpen Endings

    2/5 Man Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo chooses Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.

    Ian Rankin on Lord of the FliesOpen Endings

    1/5 Ian Rankin chooses William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

    John OcanseyLegacies of 1619

    5/5 Caryl Phillips reflects on young African John Ocansey exercising his freedom in Liverpool.

    Mary Prince and Sally HemingsLegacies of 1619

    4/5 Author Anne Bailey reflects on two remarkable women, Mary Prince and Sally Hemings.

    Sarah Forbes BonettaLegacies of 1619

    3/5 David Olusoga on the life of a girl sold into slavery and gifted to Queen Victoria.

    IsaacLegacies of 1619

    2/5 Daina Ramey Berry reflects on Isaac, whose life ended in a final act of defiance.

    Philip QuaqueLegacies of 1619

    1/5 Caryl Phillips reflects on the life of African priest Philip Quaque.

    Episode 5The Weimar Years

    5/5 Ute Lemper looks at the enduring appeal of Weimar music and song.

    Episode 4The Weimar Years

    4/5 Film critic Clarisse Loughrey looks at the cinema of the Weimar Republic.

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