The Essay Episodes Available now
Nicholas Shakespeare—Looking Good
3/5 Five writers consider the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely.
Lauren Elkin—Looking Good
2/5 Five writers consider the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely.
James Fox—Looking Good
1/5 Five writers consider the art of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely.
Pieces of You, Pieces of Me—Forgetting
5/5 Amanda Dalton explores the role of material objects in our quest to preserve our past.
Forgetting Ourselves—Forgetting
4/5 Francis O'Gorman wonders how much of what we think is remembering is actually forgetting.
The Missing Teenager—Forgetting
3/5 Writer Mark Illis explores why he has forgotten much of his teenage years.
The Pleasure of Forgetting—Forgetting
2/5 Rose Ruane asks can someone with the ability to remember everything ever learn to forget?
Modern Amnesia—Forgetting
1/5 Francis O'Gorman examines how the modern world makes forgetfulness a daily routine.
Philemon and Baucis—Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses
5/5 The fifth of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Byblis and Cannus—Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses
4/5 The fourth of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.