The Essay Episodes Available now
Alcools—Paris 1913
3/5 Martin Sorrell explores on Apollinaire's ground-breaking volume of poetry, Alcools.
The Rite of Spring—Paris 1913
2/5 Richard Witts focuses on the notorious opening of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
Swann's Way—Paris 1913
1/5 Why Marcel Proust's Swann's Way was among highlights of a great year for Parisian culture.
Mark Adkin—Napoleon and Me
5/5 Mark Adkin discusses being a military historian in the footsteps of Napoleon.
Kirsteen McCue—Napoleon and Me
4/5 Kirsteen McCue discusses singing and interpreting James Hogg's Scottish Napoleonic songs.
Adam Nicolson—Napoleon and Me
3/5 Writer Adam Nicolson recalls being a teenager as father wrote about Napoleon and 1812.
Andrea Stuart—Napoleon and Me
2/5 Writer Andrea Stuart celebrates Napoleon's first wife, Josephine de Beauharnais.
Julia Blackburn—Napoleon and Me
1/5 Julia Blackburn looks for the ghost of Napoleon on St Helena, where he died in exile.
Clare Lockhart—Why Poverty?
5/5 Development expert Clare Lockhart says private capital must be used to combat poverty.
Lawrence Haddad—Why Poverty?
4/5 Lawrence Haddad reflects on the causes of continuing widespread malnutrition.
