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The Essay

Series of programmes debating and exploring arts and cultural topics.

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Programmes:
on BBC iPlayer (10)
coming up (5)
Previous programmes:
by series (87)
by year (383)

Available now on BBC iPlayer

  1. Listen to the latest programme

    The World Turned Upside Down Episode 5

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    Available since Friday with 6 days left.

    5/5. Essayists from former Warsaw Pact nations reflect on an apparently banal object.

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    1. The World Turned Upside Down Episode 4

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      Available since Thursday with 5 days left.

      4/5. Essayists from former Warsaw Pact nations reflect on an apparently banal object.

    2. The World Turned Upside Down Episode 3

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      Available since Wednesday with 4 days left.

      3/5. Essayists from former Warsaw Pact nations reflect on an apparently banal object.

    3. The World Turned Upside Down Jana Scholze

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      Available since Tuesday with 3 days left.

      2/5. Furniture curator Jana Scholze on life in communist East Germany and a garden chair.

    4. The World Turned Upside Down Valeria Toth

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      Available since Monday with 2 days left.

      1/5. Hungarian journalist Valeria Toth measures out her life in passports.

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Tomorrow, 23:00 on Radio 3

1/5. Jonathan Keates on Purcell and the different monarchs for whom he worked.

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