The Essay Episodes Available now
F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night—Listener, They Wore It
4/5 Justine Picardie, editor of Harper's Bazaar, celebrates Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night.
Federico Fellini's 8 1/2—Listener, They Wore It
3/5 Stephen Bayley celebrates some timeless eyewear, carried off brilliantly in a famous film.
Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse—Listener, They Wore It
2/5 Rachel Cooke on a famous pair of 'peddle pushers' in the novel Bonjour Tristesse.
James Whistler's Symphony in White, No 1—Listener, They Wore It
1/5 Art historian James Fox describes an intriguing 1860s painting of a girl in a white dress.
Tom Service - Where Have All the Seismic Moments Gone?—Five Seismic Moments in New Music
5/5 Tom Service reflects on the lack of any seismic shocks in 21st-century music.
Sarah Walker on Steve Reich's Four Organs—Five Seismic Moments in New Music
4/5 Sarah Walker reflects on Steve Reich's radically minimalist Four Organs.
Ivan Hewett on Brian Eno's Music for Airports—Five Seismic Moments in New Music
3/5 Ivan Hewett reflects on Brian Eno's creation of a new genre, which he named ambient music.
Sara Mohr Pietsch on the Fall of the Berlin Wall—Five Seismic Moments in New Music
2/5 Sara Mohr-Pietsch on the appetite in the west for eastern European music after 1989.
Robert Worby on John Cage's 4'33"—Five Seismic Moments in New Music
1/5 Robert Worby reflects on the first performance of John Cage's 4'33".
A Swedish Christmas: Andrew Brown—Religion in the North
5/5 Andrew Brown recalls his experience of a Swedish Christmas.
