The Essay Episodes Available now
John Cabot—We Other Tudors
3/10 Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.
John Blanke—We Other Tudors
2/10 Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.
Lucy Baynham—We Other Tudors
1/10 Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.
Professor Dame Marina Warner on Othello—Reading the First Folio
Author and historian Marina Warner chooses a speech from early in Othello: Act 1, Scene 3.
Sir David Hare on Macbeth—Reading the First Folio
Playwright David Hare chooses Macbeth's imagining of old age from Act 5, Scene 3.
Professor Islam Issa on Julius Caesar—Reading the First Folio
Professor Islam Issa chooses a passage spoken by Julius Caesar in Act 2, Scene 2.
Michelle Terry on As You Like It—Reading the First Folio
Actor Michelle Terry chooses a speech by 'love doctor' Rosalind from Act 3, Scene 2.
Sir Richard Eyre on King Lear—Reading the First Folio
Director Richard Eyre chooses a speech by Lear to his daughter Cordelia - Act 5, Scene 3.
Fighting the colour bar—New Generation Thinkers 2022
Shirin Hirsch explores the way boxer Len Johnson fought a Manchester pub ban.
Land and soil politics—New Generation Thinkers 2022
Jim Scown on the links between Goethe, George Eliot and the storming of the US Capitol.
