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Between the Essays Retrospective

Episode 1

Audio producers from around the world bring a touch of Between the Ears to The Essay.

• 14 mins

Between the Essays Retrospective

Episode 2

Audio producers from around the world bring a touch of Between the Ears to The Essay.

• 14 mins

Between the Essays Retrospective

Episode 3

Audio producers from around the world bring a touch of Between the Ears to The Essay.

• 14 mins

Between the Essays Retrospective

Episode 4

Audio producers from around the world bring a touch of Between the Ears to The Essay.

• 14 mins

Between the Essays Retrospective

Episode 5

Audio producers from around the world bring a touch of Between the Ears to The Essay.

• 14 mins

Between the Essays

How to Get Stuck in Traffic

Radio producers from around the world present miniature Between the Ears features.

• 14 mins

Between the Essays

Perfect Love

Radio producers from around the world present miniature Between the Ears features.

• 14 mins

Between the Essays

Baked Beans and Pigeon Feed

Radio producers from around the world present miniature Between the Ears features.

• 14 mins

Strange Strolls

Jenn Ashworth - The Abiding Mental Riches of Preston

Lancastrian writer Jenn Ashworth ponders the promises of Preston's Harris Library.

• 14 mins

Strange Strolls

Michael Donkor - On Wandsworth Bridge

Writer Michael Donkor crosses Wandsworth Bridge, from childhood memory to adulthood

• 14 mins

Strange Strolls

Stephanie Victoire - Dark Hollow Falls

Writer Stephanie Victoire has a haunting hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia.

• 14 mins

Strange Strolls

Nat Segnit - The Other Ibiza

Writer and walker Nat Segnit seeks recovery and retreat in the unseen mountains of Ibiza.

• 14 mins

Strange Strolls

Sophie Coulombeau - Walking Matilda

In York, author and academic Sophie Coulombeau finds a city and self changed by motherhood

• 14 mins

Top of the Bill

Adrian Edmondson on the pursuit of laughter

Adrian Edmondson remembers a riotous act from the early days of alternative comedy.

• 14 mins

Top of the Bill

Susan Calman on Victoria Wood

Susan Calman recalls how first seeing Victoria Wood helped shape her own career.

• 14 mins

Top of the Bill

Mark Watson on The Simpsons

Comedian Mark Watson on The Simpsons and the show's impact on his own work.

• 14 mins

Top of the Bill

Deborah Frances-White on Fleabag

Deborah Frances-White remembers the very first appearance of Fleabag.

• 14 mins

Top of the Bill

Stephen K Amos on Redd Foxx

Comedian Stephen K Amos on American performer Redd Foxx and his impact on his own career.

• 14 mins

The Art of Apology

Episode 1

Poet Helen Mort reflects that saying sorry is often not just about contrition.

• 14 mins

The Art of Apology

Episode 2

Poet Helen Mort explores non-apology through some of the poems that have shaped her.

• 14 mins

The Art of Apology

Episode 3

Poet Helen Mort explores whether apologies sometimes stand in for a failure to understand.

• 14 mins

The Art of Apology

Episode 4

Poet Helen Mort explores over-apologising through some of the poems that have shaped her.

• 14 mins

The Art of Apology

Episode 5

Poet Helen Mort reflects on when apology stands in for a sense of sorrow and guilt.

• 14 mins

Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf

Charlotte Turner Smith

The Romantic poet who inspired Wordsworth is profiled by Sophie Coulombeau.

• 14 mins

Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf

Lady Mary Wroth

The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing.

• 14 mins

Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf

Margaret Oliphant

The Scottish writer whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th-century conventions.

• 14 mins

Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf

Storm Jameson

A Yorkshire-born writer with a European outlook who campaigned for World War II refugees.

• 14 mins

Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf

Yolande Mukagasana

Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor.

• 14 mins

91Èȱ¬ Sweet 91Èȱ¬

Episode 1

Madeleine Bunting begins a new series examining the many dimensions of what we call home.

• 14 mins

91Èȱ¬ Sweet 91Èȱ¬

Episode 2

Writer Madeleine Bunting reflects on some astonishing instances of homesickness.

• 14 mins