The Essay Episodes Available now
Trip Sheets: The Bronx—Trip Sheets
3/5 Writer Michael Goldfarb on driving through smouldering ruins in the Bronx in the 1970s.
Episode 2—Trip Sheets
2/5 Michael Goldfarb describes an encounter with writer Philip Roth in New York in the 1970s.
Trip Sheets: The Actor's Life—Trip Sheets
1/5 Michael Goldfarb discusses the freedom, joy and absurdity of the actor's life.
The Firebird—Music in Its Time
5/10 Stephen Johnson on the reactions of the first audiences to Stravinsky's The Firebird.
Bach: St Matthew Passion—Music in Its Time
4/10 Exploring the impact of Bach's St Matthew Passion on its first audiences in Leipzig.
Scenes from Childhood—Music in Its Time
3/10 Exploring how Schumann's Scenes from Childhood were listened to by their first audiences.
Victoria: Lamentations—Music in Its Time
2/10 Exploring the impact of Victoria's Lamentations on listeners in Counter-Reformation Rome.
Haydn: Symphony No 100 (Military)—Music in Its Time
1/10 Exploring the impact of Haydn's Military Symphony on its first audiences in 1790s London.
Beckett and the Wake—Samuel Beckett - Happy Days
5/5 Photographer John Minihan on taking some of the best-known photographs of Samuel Beckett.
Lost in Translation—Samuel Beckett - Happy Days
4/5 Director Netia Jones on the relationship between words and music in Samuel Beckett's work.
