The Essay

BBC

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

Episodes

Digging for Words

Workplace performance

The crime of creation

Mothers on trial

Land Cinema

The intimacy of radio

Birth Stories

Losing Yourself in Books

A Philosophical Forgery?

Technicolor Wars

Poems of Love and Ageing

Poems of Mayo

Poems of the Troubles

Poems of World War 1

The Early Years

Indonesia's Tin Pan Alley - Tihingan in Bali

Spain's Tin Pan Alley - Centro, Madrid

Japan's Tin Pan Alley - Ochanomizu in Tokyo

Türkiye's Tin Pan Alley - Galip Dede Street in Istanbul

China's Tin Pan Alley - Xinjiekou Street in Beijing