The Essay Episodes Available now
David Threlfall—Stories That Sing
Actor David Threlfall ponders his ambivalent responses to opera.
Patricia Duncker: How I Fell in Love with Opera—Stories That Sing
Patricia Duncker on the dangerous and seductive ways opera can overwhelm the senses.
Julian Barnes: Opera - Coming to it Late—Stories That Sing
Opera used to baffle Julian Barnes, then something happened and everything changed.
The Fallibility of Memory—The Strangeness of Memory
3/5 Forensic psychologist Fiona Gabbert explores the strength and weaknesses of human memory.
Memory and the landscape—The Strangeness of Memory
5/5 Catherine Loveday explores the relationship between memory loss and landscape.
False Memories—The Strangeness of Memory
2/5 Psycologist Chris French looks at childhood memories and asks how reliable they are.
Touching the Void—The Strangeness of Memory
1/5 Adam Zeman on the void of amnesia and how it impacts identity and consciousness.
My Mother's House—Stuff Happens
How do you deal with the stuff from your late mother's house while in the depths of grief?
The Tricks of Memory—The Strangeness of Memory
4/5 How do we remember facts or details? Professor David Shanks tells us the secret techniques
Books and Letters—Stuff Happens
Getting rid of stuff is hard at the best of times, but books and personal letters?
