The Essay Episodes Available now
Brian McGilloway—If Walls Could Talk
3/5 Crime novelist Brian McGilloway explores how a city can shape a writer.
Neil Cowley—If Walls Could Talk
2/5 Composer Neil Cowley revisits his year as musician-in-residence for Derry-Londonderry.
Susan McKay—If Walls Could Talk
1/5 Journalist Susan McKay returns to her native Derry to ask what is a 'City of Culture'?
Episode 3—Between the Essays Retrospective
3/5 Audio producers from around the world bring a touch of Between the Ears to The Essay.
Matthew Sweet—Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
5/5 Matthew Sweet explores silence in film and the effect on sound of digital technology.
David Thomson—Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
4/5 Writer and film critic David Thomson explores how film composers create mood.
Camille Paglia—Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
3/5 Writer Camille Paglia discusses the film music which has inspired her since childhood.
Miklos Rozsa—Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
2/5 Novelist Jonathan Coe explores how composer Miklos Rozsa came to write for film.
The Sounds of Early Cinema—Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
1/5 Matthew Sweet discusses the sounds of cinema's beginnings.
I Know Where I'm Going—Praising Powell and Pressburger
5/5 AL Kennedy discusses the 1945 Powell and Pressburger film I Know Where I'm Going.
