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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 5: The Map and the Word

The Map and the Word

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Episode 5: The Map and the Word

The Scientist and the Romantic

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Richard Mabey asks whether a sense of direction should be seen as a sixth sense.

Nature writer Richard Mabey asks whether a sense of direction should be considered a sixth sense.

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

He considers how maps are not just a tool from getting from A to B; for him, they are a kind of 'cryptogram'. A mapworm all his life, Richard considers every little nuance on the page as a clue to a new landscape. They are 'paper dreams'.

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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