The Essay Episodes Available now
The Missing Teenager—Forgetting
3/5 Writer Mark Illis explores why he has forgotten much of his teenage years.
The Pleasure of Forgetting—Forgetting
2/5 Rose Ruane asks can someone with the ability to remember everything ever learn to forget?
Modern Amnesia—Forgetting
1/5 Francis O'Gorman examines how the modern world makes forgetfulness a daily routine.
Philemon and Baucis—Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses
5/5 The fifth of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Byblis and Cannus—Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses
4/5 The fourth of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Orpheus and Eurydice—Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses
3/5 The third of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Pygmalion—Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses
2/5 The second of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Ceyx and Alcyone—Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses
1/5 The first of five stories about love dramatized from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Clay Bricks—Cornerstones
5/5 Poet Fiona Hamilton contrasts clay's different states, before and after it's baked hard.
Gypsum and Alabaster—Cornerstones
4/5 Archaeologist Rose Ferraby gets to grips with gypsum, the key mineral in plaster.
