The Essay Episodes Available now
Lady Maud Warrender—Classical Music's Unsung Heroines
2/5 Kate Kennedy tells the story of Lady Maud Warrender, an aristocrat and patron of music.
Nadezhda von Meck—Classical Music's Unsung Heroines
1/5 Vanora Bennett on Tchaikovsky's generous benefactor, who refused to ever meet the composer
Raymond Tallis—Fear Itself
5/5 Raymond Tallis explains how human fear is often led by thought and imagination.
Temple Grandin—Fear Itself
4/5 Temple Grandin considers the role fear and anxiety plays in autistic people's lives.
Quentin Skinner—Fear Itself
3/5 How Thomas Hobbes came to argue that fear underpinned all human motivation and action.
Kier-La Janisse—Fear Itself
2/5 Kier-La Janisse on how educational films scared more children than any horror movie.
Matthew Sweet—Fear Itself
1/5 Matthew Sweet reflects on an experiment designed to induce fear in a toddler.
The Tichborne Claimant—The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything
5/5 Exploring how an 1866 photograph of a butcher taken in Australia changed British law.
The Broom Cottages—The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything
4/5 Elizabeth Edwards on W Jerome Harrison's photo of the Broom cottages in Warwickshire.
The Dogon—The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything
3/5 Jeanne Haffner discusses how aerial photography changed the spaces we live in.
