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The Essay Episodes

    A Brazilian Soprano in Jazz-Age ParisNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Adjoa Osei celebrates Elsie Houston, who mixed Afro-Brazilian folk with European opera.

    John Baptist Dasalu and Fighting for FreedomNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Jake Subryan Richards reads the letter sent by a captured man who arrived in Cuba in 1854.

    Ruffs in JamestownNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Lauren Working on what fashion reveals about life for C16 English settlers in America.

    African cinema, nationhood, and liberationNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Cissé.

    Contesting an AlphabetNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Mirela Ivanova on the countries claiming to be the birthplace of the Cyrillic script.

    Walking with the Ghosts of the Durham CoalfieldNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Jake Morris-Campbell carries the ashes of poet Bill Martin from Sunderland to Durham.

    Vasyl Makhno-My Personal History of WarWords for War

    5/5 Vasyl Makhno was born in 1964 and has written about war since the Afghan/Soviet conflict.

    Oksana Lutsyshyna - I Dream of ExplosionsWords for War

    4/5 Oksana Lutsyshyna is an award-winning writer, translator and poet.

    Lyuba Yakimchuk-Ruination of Cities & WordsWords for War

    3/5 Lyuba Yakimchuk was born in eastern Ukraine near Luhansk and has now fled Kyiv for Vienna.

    We Come from Odesa - Boris and Ludmila KhersonskyWords for War

    2/5 Boris and Ludmila Khersonsky recently fled Odesa. 'We have to write, to give witness.'

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