The Essay Episodes Available now
Brigadoon—Five Imaginary Scottish Places
5/5 Stuart Kelly discusses Brigadoon, the village of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
Unthank—Five Imaginary Scottish Places
4/5 Stuart Kelly explores the fictional city Unthank, from Alasdair Gray's 1981 novel Lanark.
Duncairn—Five Imaginary Scottish Places
3/5 Stuart Kelly discusses author Lewis Grassic Gibbon's fictional Scottish town Duncairn.
Thrums—Five Imaginary Scottish Places
2/5 Literary critic Stuart Kelly discusses JM Barrie's fictional Scottish town called Thrums.
Show Me the Way to Tillietudlem—Five Imaginary Scottish Places
1/5 Literary critic Stuart Kelly explores the fictional locations of novelist John Galt.
Hay Festival: Gillian Clarke—Why I Write
5/5 At the 2015 Hay Festival, Welsh poet laureate Gillian Clarke explains why she writes.
Hay Festival: Frank Cottrell Boyce—Why I Write
4/5 At the 2015 Hay Festival, novelist Frank Cottrell Boyce explains why he writes.
Hay Festival: Horatio Clare—Why I Write
3/5 At the 2015 Hay Festival, author and journalist Horatio Clare explains why he writes.
Hay Festival: Alex Clark—Why I Write
2/5 Literary journalist and writer Alex Clark explains why she writes.
Hay Festival: Daniel Hahn—Why I Write
1/5 Editor and translator Daniel Hahn explains why he writes.
