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The Essay Episodes

    Robert Burns and Scottish ArcadiaDark Arcadias

    3/5 Literary critic Nigel Leask discusses Robert Burns and Arcadia.

    Colin Burrow on Fantasies for ChildrenDark Arcadias

    1/5 Critic Colin Burrow discusses fantasies in the childrens' stories of Diana Wynne Jones.

    Diane SamuelsInterRail Postcards

    5/5 Playwright Diane Samuels recalls travelling to Vienna with a fellow Jewish school friend.

    David AlmondInterRail Postcards

    4/5 David Almond on the adventures and misfortunes he experienced travelling by InterRail.

    Charlotte MendelsonInterRail Postcards

    3/5 Charlotte Mendelson recalls how travelling by InterRail in Europe transformed her life.

    Roma TearneInterRail Postcards

    2/5 Roma Tearne on InterRail travel and her interest in frontiers and national identity.

    Adam ThorpeInterRail Postcards

    1/5 Adam Thorpe on the sense of arrival into adulthood which the InterRail pass signified.

    Paper MoneyIt Talks

    5/5 Dr Helen Wang discusses the development of paper money.

    StandardsIt Talks

    3/5 Exploring the creation of the first international and cross-boundary standards for money.

    Cows and ShellsIt Talks

    1/5 Keith Hart on the origins of money as part of an economy of living persons and things.

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