The Essay

No Particular Place to Go

Thursday 6 December 2007 23:00-23:15 (Radio 3)

A series of radio essays in which acclaimed travel writers examine four great works of British travel literature, books that changed the way we saw the world and the art of writing about it.

Duration:

15 minutes

Playlist:

4/4. Joanna Kavenna discusses the significance of Louis MacNeice and WH Auden's Letters from Iceland (1937), a ground-breaking mixture of travelogue, poetry and prose.

The Essay

Episode and Playlist Information

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