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The Essay Episodes

    Sign Language through the Ages (Robert Adam)Sign Language Is My Language

    Personal essays exploring the history, layers and nuances of British Sign Language.

    GoingLarkin and Believing

    Helen Mort explores questions of faith and belief in response to Larkin's poem 'Going'

    AmbulancesLarkin and Believing

    Vidyan Ravinthiran explores questions of belief in response to Larkin's poem 'Ambulances'.

    WaterLarkin and Believing

    Jean Sprackland explores her own faith in response to Philip Larkin's poem 'Water'.

    AbsencesLarkin and Believing

    Sinead Morrissey explores questions of faith in response to Larkin's poem 'Absences'

    The MowerLarkin and Believing

    Raymond Antrobus explores faith and belief in response to Philip Larkin's 'The Mower'.

    BeatsBohemians in T-Shirts

    The influence of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg on postwar US non-conformists.

    MusiciansBohemians in T-Shirts

    Michael Goldfarb, in his study of US bohemians, turns to Charlie Parker and Miles Davis.

    ArtistsBohemians in T-Shirts

    Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Jackson Pollock, another T-shirt-wearing bohemian.

    WritersBohemians in T-Shirts

    Michael Goldfarb explores why black US writer James Baldwin took to wearing T-shirts.

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