Radio 3 Essay
Summary: Authored essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week. Each episode is full of insight, opinion and intellectual surprise from one expert voice. The Essay is broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Monday to Friday 10.45pm. We aim to include as many episodes of The Essay in the podcast as we can but you'll find that some aren't included for rights reasons.
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Lesley Chamberlain investigates how Brahms was influenced by the natural world
Natasha Loges looks beyond the Brahms' gruff public face and offers an invitation into his inner circle.
Stephen Johnson explores the impact of musical works on their original audiences. He examines the lives of those first listeners to reveal what our modern ears might be missing.
Stephen Johnson explores the impact of Bach's St Matthew Passion on its first audiences in Leipzig. He examines their lives to reveal what our modern ears might be missing.
Stephen Johnson explores how Schumann's Scenes from Childhood were listened to by their first audiences. He examines their lives to reveal what our modern ears might be missing.
Stephen Johnson explores the impact of Victoria's Lamentations on listeners in Counter-Reformation Rome. He examines their lives to reveal what our modern ears might be missing.
Stephen Johnson considers how five seminal pieces of music would have been appreciated by the audiences who heard them first. He probes the societies and cultures that shaped the experience of those original listeners to reveal what our modern ears might be missing.
Photographer John Minihan on taking some of the best-known photographs of Samuel Beckett. Recorded in front of an audience at the 2014 Happy Days International Beckett Festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Written and performed by John Minihan.
Opera director Netia Jones on the relationship between words and music in Samuel Beckett's work. Recorded in front of an audience at the 2014 Happy Days International Beckett Festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Written and performed by Netia Jones
Samuel Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon on editing Echo's Bones, the Beckett short story recently published some 80 years after it was written. Recorded in front of an audience at the 2014 Happy Days International Beckett Festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Written and performed by Mark Nixon.
Fintan O'Toole reflects on themes of mortality and death in Samuel Beckett's work. Recorded in front of an audience at the 2014 Happy Days International Beckett Festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Written and performed by Fintan O'Toole
Irish actor Lisa Dwan describes the demands of performing Samuel Beckett's plays and her encounters with some of the other actors most closely associated with his work, including Billie Whitelaw. Recorded in front of an audience at the 2014 Happy Days International Beckett Festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Written and performed by Lisa Dwan.
The poet Gillian Clarke speaks about slate and the human cost of quarrying it in Snowdonia.
Sculptor Peter Randall-Page on Dartmoor's obdurate and unforgiving granite boulders.
How sandstone shapes the walker, writer and geologist Ronald Turnbull's favourite landscapes.
