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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: Listener, They Wore It

The Essay: Listener, They Wore It: Episode 1: Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Chevalier

Episode 1

Episode 1: Tracy Chevalier

Listener, They Wore It

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Tracy Chevalier on the fate of some sparkling stones in de Maupassant's The Necklace.

Novelist Tracy Chevalier considers the fate of some sparkling stones in Guy de Maupassant's famous story The Necklace.

Five writers were invited to explore the meaning of clothes and accessories in a particular work of art, be it a story, novel, film, painting or song lyric. How does the clothing resonate? What is the tale behind its depiction? Would the writer wear the garment themselves? Suits and dresses, coats and jewels, and even rags, all feature in accounts by a variety of commentators...

1. Novelist Tracy Chevalier considers how a set of sparkling stones tease in Guy de Maupassant's famous story - The Necklace.

Producer Duncan Minshull.

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 explore the meaning of clothes and accessories in a particular work of art

Writers explore the meaning of clothes and accessories in a particular work of art. How does the clothing resonate? What is the tale behind its depiction and would they wear the garment themselves

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