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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 4: Aldo Leopold

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Before 'Silent Spring'

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Episode 4: Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Before 'Silent Spring', Aldo Leopold

Curt Meine on forester Aldo Leopold, author of a classic in American nature writing.

Curt Meine considers the ideas of outdoorsman, forester and philosopher Aldo Leopold, whose book A Sand County Almanac became a classic in American nature writing.

Aldo Leopold was an outdoorsman, forester and philosopher and his 'A Sand County Almanac', published posthumously in 1949 has become both a classic of American nature writing and a cornerstone of environmental ethics. Leopold's biographer, Curt Meine, explores how a shack and an abandoned farm in Wisconsin became the inspiration for Leopold's environmental manifesto.

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.

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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