The Essay Episodes Available now
The Essex Way—Odes to Essex
5/5 Writer Gillian Darley celebrates the unsung and lesser-known delights of mid-Essex.
The Refusal of Place—Odes to Essex
3/5 Writer Lavinia Greenlaw takes us back to the formative landscape of her childhood.
Washed Up in Essex—Odes to Essex
2/5 Writer AL Kennedy takes us on a watery journey through the county she now calls home.
Metropolitan Essex—Odes to Essex
1/5 Billy Bragg explores the London-Essex borderland that fuelled his childhood imagination.
Heads, bodies and legs—Mug Shots
5/5 Polly Coles reads the last of her essays on portraiture and our obsession with ourselves.
Sitting - Our Place in the World—Mug Shots
4/5 Polly Coles reads the next of her essays on portraiture and our obsession with ourselves.
Fame and Infamy—Mug Shots
3/5 Polly Coles reads the third of her essays on portraiture and our obsession with ourselves.
Portraits of Love and Hate—Mug Shots
2/5 Polly Coles reads the next of her essays on portraiture and our obsession with ourselves.
Know Thy Selfie—Mug Shots
1/5 Polly Coles reads the first of her essays on portraiture and our obsession with ourselves.
The Wells of Dee—The Frozen River
5/5 A perilous winter pilgrimage to the source of Britain’s highest river.
