Letters
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 Essential. The Why Factor: Farewell Letters. Audio, 6 minutes
Why do we write farewell letters? And how to find the words to say goodbye?
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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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1916: A Letter from Ireland. Audio, 30 minutes
Fintan O'Toole looks at letters written at the time of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.
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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 Pope's Letters. Audio, 45 minutes
Extracts from letters charting a friendship between Pope John Paul II and a married woman.
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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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The Why Factor. Letters. Audio, 18 minutes
The disappearing art of the hand-written letter and three stories of love
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The Essay. Minds at War: Series 1, The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science. Audio, 15 minutes
Prof David Edgerton discusses the 1916 Memorandum on the Neglect of Science.
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Short Cuts. Series 5, Mystery. Audio, 30 minutes
Josie Long explores the disappointment of banal family secrets.
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Dinosaurs in the Drawing Room. Audio, 30 minutes
How the Natural History Museum packed its collections off to country houses during WWII.
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The Unsent Letters of Erik Satie. Audio, 30 minutes
Alistair McGowan tells the story of the love letters that composer Erik Satie never sent.
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Valentine's Day. Audio, 30 minutes
Another beautiful story of everyday life from John Osborne, creator of John Peel's Shed.
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Letters to the Russian Front. Audio, 28 minutes
A story of Austrian siblings told in their wartime letters to and from the Russian front.
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The Brotherton Archive and Me. Audio, 30 minutes
Julia Blackburn meets writers whose private papers reside in Leeds University Library.
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Dipdap. Letter. Video, 3 minutes
The Line draws Dipdap a letter. He goes to post it, but strong winds get in the way.
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Mandela in His Own Words. Audio, 30 minutes
Fergal Keane takes a journey through the private notebooks and letters of Nelson Mandela.
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