The Essay Episodes Available now
Spain—Living Abroad
3/5 Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in Franco's Spain during the late 1950s.
France—Living Abroad
2/5 Frederic Raphael recalls his life as a young writer in the post-war Paris of Sartre.
England—Living Abroad
1/5 Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in wartime Britain as a boy.
Holguin—Unknown Cities
5/5 Travel editor Simon Calder recalls the small-scale delights of Holguin in Cuba.
Asmara—Unknown Cities
4/5 Michela Wrong on the Italianate buildings and futurist constructions in Asmara, Eritrea.
Makhachkala—Unknown Cities
3/5 Vanora Bennett on Makhachkala in Russia, which she describes as 'beyond the mountains'.
Kunming—Unknown Cities
2/5 Romesh Gunesekera on Kunming, considered to be unlike any other modern Chinese city.
Hobart—Unknown Cities
1/5 Nicholas Shakespeare on Hobart's convict and whaling past, and the story of a monkey.
The Makers of the Bayeux Tapestry—Anglo-Saxon Portraits
30/30 Gale Owen-Crocker explores the making of the Bayeux Tapestry.
Harold Godwinson—Anglo-Saxon Portraits
29/30 Clive Anderson discusses the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson.
