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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 2: Justin Cartwright

Justin Cartwright

Episode 2

Episode 2: Justin Cartwright

Listener, They Wore It

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Justin Cartwright on corporate America and the novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit.

Novelist Justin Cartwright thinks about corporate America and how it is vividly caught in Sloan Wilson's novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit.

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...

2. Novelist Justin Cartwright thinks about corporate America, and how it is vividly caught in the novel, The Man in The Grey Flannel Suit.

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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