Main content
This episode will be available soon

Episode 1

The EssayWhen Writers Play
Episode 1 of 3

Series in which writers are invited to muse on their alternative talents as musicians.

Novelist and journalist Terence Blacker discusses the guitar. His playing took him everywhere. He sees his strumming life appear before him...

15 minutes

Last on

Mon 17 Aug 200923:00
BBC Radio 3

More episodes

Previous

You are at the first episode

Next

Episode 2When Writers Play

See all episodes from The Essay

Broadcasts

  • Mon 21 Jul 200823:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Mon 17 Aug 200923:00
    BBC Radio 3

Death in Trieste

Death in Trieste

A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

Watch: My Deaf World

Watch: My Deaf World

Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

The Book that Changed Me

The Book that Changed Me

Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

Podcast

  • The Essay

    Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.