The Essay Episodes Available now
Ruffs in Jamestown—New Generation Thinkers 2021
Lauren Working on what fashion reveals about life for C16 English settlers in America.
African cinema, nationhood, and liberation—New Generation Thinkers 2021
Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Cissé.
Contesting an Alphabet—New Generation Thinkers 2021
Mirela Ivanova on the countries claiming to be the birthplace of the Cyrillic script.
Walking with the Ghosts of the Durham Coalfield—New Generation Thinkers 2021
Jake Morris-Campbell carries the ashes of poet Bill Martin from Sunderland to Durham.
Vasyl Makhno-My Personal History of War—Words 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 Explosions—Words for War
4/5 Oksana Lutsyshyna is an award-winning writer, translator and poet.
Lyuba Yakimchuk-Ruination of Cities & Words—Words 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 Khersonsky—Words for War
2/5 Boris and Ludmila Khersonsky recently fled Odesa. 'We have to write, to give witness.'
Oksana Maksymchuk-Hear Their Words—Words for War
1/5 War came to Ukraine in 2014. Its poets have been responding to it ever since.
Good Silence, Bad Silence—Talking about Silence
5/5 Diarmaid MacCulloch explores how Christianity contains silences that need ending.