Letters
The Essay. Dear Marianne Moore. Audio, 14 minutes
Ian Sansom writes to poet Marianne Moore and asks her about that tricorn hat
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The Essay. Dear Oscar Wilde. Audio, 14 minutes
Ian Sansom is in the gutter looking at the stars as he writes to Oscar Wilde
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The Essay. Dear Mary Shelley. Audio, 14 minutes
Ian Sansom writes to Frankenstein author, Mary Shelley, to ask her how on earth she coped
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The Essay. Dear Dante. Audio, 14 minutes
Ian Sansom drops a quick line to Dante
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The Essay. More Letters to Writers, Dear Dante... Audio, 14 minutes
Ian Sansom drops a quick line to Dante.
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The Essay. Stuff Happens, Books and Letters. Audio, 14 minutes
Getting rid of stuff is hard at the best of times, but books and personal letters?
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The Essay. Minds at War: Series 4, Siegfried Sassoon's Letter to The Times. Audio, 15 minutes
Joanna Bourke on Siegfried Sassoon and his celebrated protest against the conflict.
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The Essay. Minds at War: Series 4, Gertrude Bell. Audio, 15 minutes
Tarek Osman considers the writing of Gertrude Bell.
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The Essay. Between the Essays, Prelude. Audio, 15 minutes
Sophie Townsend explores what beginnings might be found when everything has ended.
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The Essay. Letters to Writers, Dear Agatha Christie... Audio, 15 minutes
Novelist Ian Sansom has a theory to put to the Queen of Crime.
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The Essay. Letters to Writers, Dear Virginia Woolf... Audio, 15 minutes
A letter of apology to Virginia Woolf from novelist Ian Sansom.
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The Essay. Letters to Writers, Dear George Eliot... Audio, 15 minutes
Novelist Ian Sansom pens a missive to George Eliot...
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The Essay. Letters to Writers, Dear Jonathan Swift... Audio, 15 minutes
Ian Sansom writes an imaginary letter to Jonathan Swift and interrogates him about his art
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The Essay. Letters to Writers, Dear Geoffrey Chaucer... Audio, 15 minutes
Novelist Ian Sansom fires off a letter to Geoffrey Chaucer...
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The Why Factor. Farewell Letters. Audio, 18 minutes
Why do we write farewell letters? And how do we find the words to say goodbye?
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The Perfect Strangers. Audio, 30 minutes
Meet 80 year olds Mo and Jo, who recently became honorary Gurkhas.
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The Essay. I Am, Yours Sincerely, C Bronte, Rachel Joyce on Bronte as a Literary Star. Audio, 15 minutes
Novelist Rachel Joyce on how Charlotte Bronte reacted to becoming a literary sensation.
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The Essay. I Am, Yours Sincerely, C Bronte, Jane Shilling on I Shall Soon Be Thirty. Audio, 15 minutes
Jane Shilling explores a letter Charlotte Bronte wrote shortly before beginning Jane Eyre.
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The Essay. I Am, Yours Sincerely, C Bronte, I Am, Yours Sincerely, C Bronte: Lyndall Gordon on Charlotte Bronte and Robert Southey. Audio, 15 minutes
Lyndall Gordon examines Charlotte Bronte's response to advice from poet Robert Southey.
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The Essay. I Am, Yours Sincerely, C Bronte, Claire Harman on Charlotte Bronte in Belgium. Audio, 15 minutes
Claire Harman on the two years Charlotte Bronte spent as a mature student in Belgium.
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The Essay. I Am, Yours Sincerely, C Bronte, Claire Harman on Charlotte Bronte, Governess. Audio, 15 minutes
Biographer Claire Harman discusses Charlotte Bronte's experience as a governess.
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The Long View. John Thurloe, Cromwell's postmaster, and the interception of mail. Audio, 28 minutes
Today's debates about online privacy have 17th-century precedents. With Jonathan Freedland
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The Secretaries of Juliet. Audio, 30 minutes
Jolyon Jenkins meets the women of Verona who answer letters sent to Shakespeare's Juliet
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The Essay. I've Never Told Anyone This Before, 5. Suzanne Joinson - 'Somebody Else's Story' Audio, 15 minutes
Novelist and market enthusiast Suzanne Joinson shares a story she has never told before.
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