The Essay Episodes Available now
Ted Hughes and Tenderness—Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes
Poet Simon Armitage talks about finding an unexpected in tenderness Ted Hughes's work.
Ted Hughes and the River of Time—Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes
Poet Zaffar Kunial explores Ted Hughes's personal obsession with dates and anniversaries.
Crows, Loss and a Violent Melancholia—Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes
Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf on finding solace in Hughes's work during a troubled childhood.
Ted Hughes v Philip Larkin—Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes
Sean O'Brien returns to his native Hull to consider the work of two very different poets.
Ted Hughes and Animal Encounters—Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes
Poet Helen Mort reads Hughes's poems about creatures in light of her own animal phobia.
100 Acre Wood—Forests
Brian Sibley guides Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough around the home of Winnie the Pooh.
The Jungle Book—Forests
Join Mowgli and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough in the forest of Kipling's imagination
Mirkwood—Forests
The forests of Middle Earth explored by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough.
Brothers Grimm—Forests
Dare to enter the dark Germanic forest of the Brothers Grimm.
The Wood Beyond the World—Forests
Enjoy the lush, romantic delights of the Pre-Raphaelite forest.
