Radio 3 Essay

The Lives of Others

Joanna Robertson believes it's the everyday moments that shape, frame and colour our lives. That...

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Going for a Walk

'It's only the minutiae of life that are important,' wrote the Austro-Hungarian author Joseph...

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Windows

The minutiae of the everyday frame, shape and colour our lives. Joanna Robertson lives in Paris,...

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Moments of Being

The minutiae of life have always fascinated Joanna Robertson. Moments like opening the curtains...

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Paterson Joseph on Ignatius Sancho

Five writers go on five reflective, restorative and often playful journeys in search of the final...

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Anita Sethi on Anne Brontë

Five writers go on five reflective, restorative and often playful journeys in search of the final...

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Diana Souhami on Radclyffe Hall

Five writers go on five reflective, restorative and often playful journeys in search of the final...

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Paul Muldoon on WB Yeats

Five writers go on five reflective, restorative and often playful journeys in search of the final...

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Lauren Elkin on Oscar Wilde

Five writers go on five reflective, restorative and often playful journeys in search of the final...

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Pause for Thought

From full stops to emojis, a Tudor letter to texting - how has the use of punctuation marks...

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A Brazilian Soprano in Jazz-Age Paris

Xangô (the god of thunder) and Paso Ñañigo’, composed by the Cuban Moises Simons, were two of the...

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Ruffs in Jamestown

The discovery of goffering irons, the tools used to shape ruffs, by an archaeological dig in...

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John Baptist Dasalu and Fighting for Freedom

An 1856 portrait shows a 40-year-old man from Benin who managed to secure his freedom after being...

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The Paradox of Ecological Art

Sculptures like mouldy fruit, sea creatures that look like oil, blocks of ice carved from a...

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Alexander and the Persians

What made him great? Celebrated as a military leader, Alexander took over an empire created by...

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Opium Tales

In 1821, Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater paved the way for drug memoirs, but...

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African Cinema, Nationhood and Liberation

Africa's first film-makers boldly revealed how, and why, colonialism lived on after the...

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Contesting an Alphabet

Images of Cyril and Methodios adorn libraries, universities, cathedrals and passport pages in...

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Walking with the Ghosts of the Durham Coalfield

Comrade or "marra" in north east dialect, and the "dharma" or the way - were put together in a...

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The Swing Bridge

An immersive audio experience from Radio 3's After Dark festival at Sage Gateshead. Five...

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