The Essay Episodes Available now
The Fall of the House of Crosskill—Herb
4/5 Colin Grant wonders to what extent cannabis can be deemed a 'gateway drug'.
Leaf of Life—Herb
3/5 Colin Grant looks at the rise of medical marijuana.
Burkina Faso's Incorruptible People and the Drum—Herb
2/5 Colin Grant examines the relationship between cannabis and the global poor.
Marijuana Made Me—Herb
1/5 Writer Colin Grant's personal take on the cultural history of cannabis.
Donna Huddleston’s Witch Dance—Artists and the Spirit World
How alternative ways of understanding the world are inspiring contemporary artists.
Ithell Colquhoun’s Scylla—Artists and the Spirit World
Celebrating the artist who championed automatism, feminism and the value of other realms.
Estella Canziani's The Piper of Dreams—Artists and the Spirit World
Fairy fever and art’s response to World War I.
Wassily Kandinsky’s Composition V—Artists and the Spirit World
The roles of spiritualism and women artists at the beginning of western abstraction.
Hilma af Klint’s The Ten Largest—Artists and the Spirit World
Jennifer Higgie traces the impact of the spirit world on modernist art.
The Reinvention of Ritual—The Meaning of Ritual
5/5 Madeleine Bunting asks whether it’s time to value ritual afresh.
