The Essay Episodes Available now
The acting coach—Acting Unrehearsed
5/5 Geoffrey Colman invites us to join him on a walk through a day as an acting coach.
How reality TV has changed acting—Acting Unrehearsed
4/5 Geoffrey Colman describes the ways in which reality TV has changed acting.
On stage and on screen—Acting Unrehearsed
3/5 Geoffrey Colman explores the differences between acting on stage and on screen.
How to become an actor?—Acting Unrehearsed
2/5 Geoffrey Colman discusses drama schools in his second Essay on acting.
What is good acting?—Acting Unrehearsed
1/5 Geoffrey Colman considers the art of acting and asks: what makes a great actor?
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.
