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The Essay Podcast

The Essay

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Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

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

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

The Essay: The Scientist and the Romantic

The Essay: The Scientist and the Romantic: Episode 2: The Lens and the Lichen

The Lens and the Lichen

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Episode 2: The Lens and the Lichen

The Scientist and the Romantic

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Scientist and the Romantic, The Lens and the Lichen

Richard Mabey discusses how a lens can enhance or distort our view of the natural world.

Nature writer Richard Mabey discusses how a lens can enhance or distort our view of the natural world.

Nature writer Richard Mabey reflects on his lifelong relationship with science and the natural world.

He explores how a lens can enhance and at times distort our view of nature. He discusses how the late 18th-century Claude glass influenced the Picturesque movement in art and the excitement of looking at lichens through a microscope.

As our understanding of science has developed, Richard also points out how our understanding of the way we 'view' nature has changed - whether it's a new way of looking at the canopy of the rainforest or the first photo taken from space which shows us planet earth.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Nature writer Richard Mabey on his relationship with science and the natural world

Nature writer Richard Mabey discusses on his lifelong relationship with science and the natural environment

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