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The Escape Artist
The extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan and his influence on modern art.
7: The Love Story
8: The Echo
9: The Missing
10: The Resurrection
Between the Essays Retrospective
Episode 1
Audio producers from around the world bring a touch of Between the Ears to The Essay.
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Between the Essays
How to Get Stuck in Traffic
Radio producers from around the world present miniature Between the Ears features.
Perfect Love
Baked Beans and Pigeon Feed
Strange Strolls
Jenn Ashworth - The Abiding Mental Riches of Preston
Lancastrian writer Jenn Ashworth ponders the promises of Preston's Harris Library.
Michael Donkor - On Wandsworth Bridge
Writer Michael Donkor crosses Wandsworth Bridge, from childhood memory to adulthood
Stephanie Victoire - Dark Hollow Falls
Writer Stephanie Victoire has a haunting hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia.
Nat Segnit - The Other Ibiza
Writer and walker Nat Segnit seeks recovery and retreat in the unseen mountains of Ibiza.
Sophie Coulombeau - Walking Matilda
In York, author and academic Sophie Coulombeau finds a city and self changed by motherhood
Top of the Bill
Adrian Edmondson on the pursuit of laughter
Adrian Edmondson re a riotous act from the early days of alternative comedy.
Susan Calman on Victoria Wood
Susan Calman recalls how first seeing Victoria Wood helped shape her own career.
Mark Watson on The Simpsons
Comedian Mark Watson on The Simpsons and the show's impact on his own work.
Deborah s-White on Fleabag
Deborah s-White re the very first appearance of Fleabag.
Stephen K Amos on Redd Foxx
Comedian Stephen K Amos on American performer Redd Foxx and his impact on his own career.
The Art of Apology
Poet Helen Mort reflects that saying sorry is often not just about contrition.
Poet Helen Mort explores non-apology through some of the poems that have shaped her.
Poet Helen Mort explores whether apologies sometimes stand in for a failure to understand.
Poet Helen Mort explores over-apologising through some of the poems that have shaped her.
Poet Helen Mort reflects on when apology stands in for a sense of sorrow and guilt.
Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf
Charlotte Turner Smith
The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau.
Lady Mary Wroth
The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing.
Margaret Oliphant
The Scottish writer whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th-century conventions.
