The Essay Episodes Available now
The Genius of Disability: Bryan Pearce - What Would I Do If I Didn't Paint?—The Genius of Disability
2/5 Tom Shakespeare on painter Bryan Pearce, born with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria.
The Genius of Disability: Al-Ma'arri - Visionary Free Thinker—The Genius of Disability
1/5 Tom Shakespeare discusses the blind tenth-century Arabian poet Al-Ma'arri.
St Petersburg - White Flowers and Revolution—World War One Round the World
Novelist Tatyana Tolstaya tells a St Petersburg audience how World War I changed Russia.
Paris: The Christmas Truce—World War One Round the World, Series 1
1/5 Christian Carion asks what the mud and degradation of WWI did to the idea of heroism.
5. Suzanne Joinson - 'Somebody Else's Story'—I've Never Told Anyone This Before
5/5 Novelist and market enthusiast Suzanne Joinson shares a story she has never told before.
Jane Stevenson - An Uneasy Feeling—I've Never Told Anyone This Before
4/5 Writer Jane Stevenson tells the true story of an unusual encounter during house-hunting.
Erica Wagner - A History of My Family in One Object—I've Never Told Anyone This Before
3/5 Erica Wagner examines her mother's stories about her father and an unusual wedding gift.
Kei Miller - The Important Things—I've Never Told Anyone This Before
2/5 The Forward Prize-winning Jamaican poet, novelist and critic examines some awkward truths.
Tod Wodicka - The Reluctant Shaman—I've Never Told Anyone This Before
1/5 Writer Tod Wodicka describes suffering terrifying night terrors when he was younger.
Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Fi Glover—Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio
5/5 Broadcaster Fi Glover on how radio voices 'make the global local and the local global'.
