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The Essay, 1,000 episodes. Page 7 of 10.

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Educating Ida

602

Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?

603

Art for Health's Sake

604

Welling Up: Women and Water in the Middle Ages

605

The Last Wolf

606

The Great Glen

607

The Moss Lairds

608

The Dark Years

609

Louise Welsh

610

Val McDermid

611

Janice Galloway

612

Kate Clanchy

613

Ali Smith

614

Lavinia Greenlaw

615

Rachel Cooke

616

Nicholas Shakespeare

617

Lauren Elkin

618

James Fox

619

Clay Bricks

620

Gypsum and Alabaster

621

North Sea Oil and Gas

622

Lewisian Gneiss

623

Flint

624

Watershed

625

Hafod Eryri

626

Chingle Hall

627

Gladstone's Library

628

Wigmore Hall

629

Dear William Trevor

630

Dear Oscar Wilde

631

Dear Mary Shelley

632

Dear Dante

633

Dear Marianne Moore

634

10 Eisenstein

635

9 Moisei Ginzburg

636

8 The State Porcelain Factory

637

7 Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva

638

6 Mosolov

639

5 Tatlin

640

4 Meyerhold

641

3 Nijinsky

642

2 John Reed, Eye-Witness

643

1 Choices

644

Memory and the landscape

645

The Tricks of Memory

646

The Fallibility of Memory

647

False Memories

648

Touching the Void

649

My Mother's House

650

Books and Letters

651

Decluttering

652

Tidy Home, Tidy Mind

653

Moving House

654

Robert Frost's 'Design'

655

Sylvia Plath's 'Cut'

656

Elizabeth Bishop's 'Large Bad Picture'

657

Michael Donaghy's 'The Hunter's Purse'

658

Seamus Heaney's 'The Underground'

659

John Siddique

660

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

661

Dining with the Nightmare

662

A Tale of Restoration Murder, Barbarous and Inhumane

663

Resisting Tyranny

664

A Focus on Fasting

665

A Romanticist Reflects on Breastfeeding

666

Isaac Rosenberg's Dead Man's Dump

667

Mata Hari's Final Performance

668

Siegfried Sassoon's Letter to The Times

669

Gertrude Bell

670

Marcel Duchamp

671

Philip Melanchthon

672

Johann Walther

673

Katharina von Bora

674

Thomas Muntzer

675

Martin Luther

676

Late Style: Penelope Lively

677

Sex Shops

678

Late Style: Douglas Dunn

679

Late Style: Diana Hendry

680

Vicki Feaver

681

Late Style: Paul Bailey

682

The Milkman

683

The Telephone

684

The Ventriloquist Doll

685

The Boating Pond

686

Killing Time in Imperial Japan

687

England's First European

688

Russia's Sacred Ruins

689

Creating Modern India

690

The Magic Years

691

Faith, Fire and the Family

692

The British Writer and the Refugee

693

Alexander the Great's Lost City

694

In the Shadows of Biafra

695

Monks, Models and Medieval Time

696

Bette Davis

697

Naomi Alderman

698

John Walsh

699

Philip Hoare

700

Rachel Cooke