The Essay Episodes Available now
Dar es Salaam - Ubhuche, Invisible Histories of the First World War—World War One Round the World, Series 2
5/5 Exploring why WWI is almost forgotten in Tanzania despite the casualties it suffered.
Delhi - Parting Words—World War One Round the World, Series 2
4/5 Shashi Tharoor explores Indian remembrances of the World War One.
Amman - Jordan, a Country of Nationalists—World War One Round the World, Series 2
3/5 Lina Attel explores how Jordanian national culture has survived since World War One.
Washington - Safe for Democracy—World War One Round the World, Series 2
2/5 David Frum explains how World War One still defines American foreign policy.
Sydney - Stories that Bind—World War One Round the World, Series 2
1/5 Wesley Enoch explores the powerful mythology of the Anzacs in Australia.
Akhmatova's July 1914—Minds at War: Series 2
5/5 Sasha Dugdale explores the impact of World War I on the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
Parade—Minds at War: Series 2
4/5 Richard Cork discusses Pablo Picasso's designs for the Ballets Russes production Parade.
Woolf's Mrs Dalloway—Minds at War: Series 2
3/5 How Virginia Woolf and her great novel Mrs Dalloway were shaped by the 1914-18 conflict.
Tzara's Dada Manifesto—Minds at War: Series 2
2/5 Comedian Arthur Smith presents a dadaesque account of Tristan Tzara's Dada Manifesto.
Tagore's Nobel Lectures—Minds at War: Series 2
1/5 Santanu Das discusses the Nobel lectures of the great Indian thinker Rabindranath Tagore.
