The Essay Episodes Available now
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort—Minds at War: Series 1
8/10 BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet discusses Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France.
Battleship Potemkin—Minds at War: Series 1
7/10 Ian Christie discusses Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin as a response to World War I.
Le Feu—Minds at War: Series 1
6/10 Heather Jones on Henri Barbusse's Le Feu, the first explicit account of WWI conditions.
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death—Minds at War: Series 1
5/10 Michal Shapira explores Sigmund Freud's Thoughts for the Times on War and Death.
The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science—Minds at War: Series 1
4/10 Prof David Edgerton discusses the 1916 Memorandum on the Neglect of Science.
Der Krieg—Minds at War: Series 1
3/10 Cartoonist Martin Rowson on Otto Dix's Der Krieg, a cycle of prints of wartime experience.
Non-Combatants and Others—Minds at War: Series 1
2/10 Author Sara LeFanu reflects on Rose Macaulay's 1916 novel Non-Combatants and Others.
Paths of Glory—Minds at War: Series 1
1/10 BBC correspondent Allan Little reflects on CRW Nevinson's 1917 painting Paths of Glory.
The Meaning of Trees: Poplar—The Meaning of Trees, Series 2
4/5 Fiona Stafford on the poplar, the most modern tree and the first to have its DNA sequenced
The Meaning of Trees: Apple—The Meaning of Trees, Series 2
3/5 Fiona Stafford discusses the apple tree, which has been loved and hated for centuries.
