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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: Before 'Silent Spring'

The Essay: Before 'Silent Spring': Episode 3: Alfred Russel Wallace

Before 'Silent Spring'

Episode 3

Episode 3: Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Before 'Silent Spring', Alfred Russel Wallace

Botanist Sandy Knapp on Alfred Russel Wallace and his radical views on the environment.

Botanist Sandy Knapp considers 19th-century naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace's surprisingly radical views about our relationship with nature.

Nineteenth century naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace is best known for co-proposing the theory of natural selection with Charles Darwin. But his extensive travels in South America and South East Asia taught him to appreciate the beauty of the natural environment and to understand the impact of human beings on wild places. Botanist Sandy Knapp has followed in Wallace's footsteps across the world and reflects on his surprisingly radical views about our relationship with nature.

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.

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Factual: Science & Nature: Nature & Environment

Writers, scientists and environmental campaigners trace the roots of the green movement

Writers, scientists and environmental campaigners reflect on the figures whose ideas preceded the influential 1962 book Silent Spring and laid the foundations of the contemporary green movement

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