The Essay Episodes Available now
Episode 3—Home Sweet Home
3/5 Madeleine Bunting reflects on the emotional fallout of not having a place to call home.
Episode 2—Home Sweet Home
2/5 Writer Madeleine Bunting reflects on some astonishing instances of homesickness.
Episode 1—Home Sweet Home
1/5 Madeleine Bunting begins a new series examining the many dimensions of what we call home.
Yolande Mukagasana—Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf
5/5 Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor.
Storm Jameson—Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf
4/5 A Yorkshire-born writer with a European outlook who campaigned for World War II refugees.
Margaret Oliphant—Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf
3/5 The Scottish writer whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th-century conventions.
Lady Mary Wroth—Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf
2/5 The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing.
Charlotte Turner Smith—Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf
1/5 The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau.
Episode 5—The Art of Apology
5/5 Poet Helen Mort reflects on when apology stands in for a sense of sorrow and guilt.
Episode 4—The Art of Apology
4/5 Poet Helen Mort explores over-apologising through some of the poems that have shaped her.
