The Essay Episodes Available now
Simon McBurney on And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos—The Book that Changed Me
3/5 Actor Simon McBurney on John Berger's And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos.
Tracey Thorn on The Female Eunuch—The Book that Changed Me
2/5 Singer Tracey Thorn on how Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch spoke to her as a teenager.
Alan Johnson on David Copperfield—The Book that Changed Me
1/5 Politician Alan Johnson on how Dickens's David Copperfield affected the course of his life
Don Paterson—Letters to a Young Poet
5/5 Inspired by Rilke's classic text, Don Paterson writes a letter to a young poet of today.
Moniza Alvi—Letters to a Young Poet
4/5 A letter by TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Moniza Alvi.
Michael Longley—Letters to a Young Poet
3/5 A letter to a young poet from Belfast writer Michael Longley.
Vicki Feaver—Letters to a Young Poet
2/5 A letter to a young woman poet by 2014 TS Eliot Prize judge Vicki Feaver.
Michael Symmons Roberts—Letters to a Young Poet
1/5 Inspired by Rilke's classic text, Michael Symmons Roberts writes to a young poet of today.
London—Cities on the Brink
5/5 BBC news correspondent Emma Jane Kirby discusses London in 1914.
St Petersburg—Cities on the Brink
4/5 Steve Rosenberg revisits 1914 St Petersburg and an event that would define modern Russia.
