The Essay Episodes Available now
The Year of Blade Runner 3: More Human Than Human - Ken Hollings—Blade Runner at 40
3/5 Five writers explore Blade Runner's legacy. 3: More Human Than Human - Ken Hollings.
The Year of Blade Runner 2: Sounds of the Future Past—Blade Runner at 40
2/5 Five writers explore Blade Runner's legacy of ideas and images. 2: Frances Morgan on sound
Los Angeles 2019—Blade Runner at 40
1/5 Five writers explore Blade Runner's legacy of ideas. 1: Deyan Sudjic on the city.
Philip Hoare - The Haunted Sea—Beyond Borders
Author Philip Hoare transcends the elements and talks about being reshaped by the sea.
Ed Vulliamy - Forever Young—Beyond Borders
Writer and journalist Ed Vulliamy talks about the musicians crossing the age barrier.
Wendy Erskine - Knock Knock, Who's There?—Beyond Borders
Writer Wendy Erskine takes us through doorways that open up portals into other worlds.
Stephen Sexton - The Tory Islanders—Beyond Borders
Poet Stephen Sexton talks about the margins between language and image.
Sinead Gleeson - Pain, Borders and Averting Our Gaze—Beyond Borders
Irish writer Sinead Gleeson talks about how pain, inequality and borders separate us.
The Women in the Cutting Room... and Elsewhere—Mise-en-scène
5/5 Michael Goldfarb remembers the mise-en-scène filmwork of female editors and directors.
The Ghost of the Time—Mise-en-scène
4/5 Michael Goldfarb remembers the mise-en-scène films about Vietnam and Woodstock.
