The Essay Episodes Available now
The Nose—A Body of Essays: Series 3
Scottish writer AL Kennedy reflects on the ability of our nose to conjure memories.
The Ear—A Body of Essays: Series 3
Author Patrick McGuinness explores the grottiness of the labyrinthine ear.
The Blood—A Body of Essays: Series 3
Poet Kayo Chingoni chooses the blood, and reveals a tragic personal story of HIV AIDS.
The Eyes—A Body of Essays: Series 3
Poet Abi Curtis considers how our eyes both connect us to and alienate us from the world.
The Liver—A Body of Essays: Series 3
British Pakistani poet Imtiaz Dharker regards the liver as the true seat of our feelings.
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.
