The Essay Episodes Available now
Craigie Hill—My Life in Music
On the eve of her Grampa's funeral, Karine Polwart received a song.
Cage Sonatas and Hancock's Head Hunters—My Life in Music
Composer Kerry Andrew discovered she had two CDs in common with her boyfriend.
O Come, O Come Emmanuel—My Life in Music
Folk singer Chris Wood remembers singing in Canterbury Cathedral as a child.
Japan Refusal—Dark Blossoms
5/5 Does mental illness in Japan indicate a rejection of a narrow modernity?
The Art of the Heist—Dark Blossoms
4/5 How a famous crime is also a metaphor for 1960s Japan.
Rebranding the Buddha—Dark Blossoms
3/5 How Buddhism was reimagined in the service of Japanese militarism.
Happy Families—Dark Blossoms
2/5 Chris Harding explores contrasting models of 'family' in turn-of-the-century Japan.
Deer Cry Hall—Dark Blossoms
1/5 Japan's uneasy embrace of modernity, exemplified by a controversial 19th-century building.
Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue—Secret Admirers
5/5 Radio 3 presenter Kate Molleson celebrates French composer Eliane Radigue.
Secret Admirers: Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue
Celebrating the French composer and her inspirational long-form sense of perspective.
