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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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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: Dark Arcadias

The Essay: Dark Arcadias: Episode 1: Colin Burrow on Fantasies for Children

Colin Burrow on Fantasies for Children

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Episode 1: Colin Burrow on Fantasies for Children

Dark Arcadias

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Critic Colin Burrow discusses fantasies in the childrens' stories of Diana Wynne Jones.

Literary critic Colin Burrow discusses fantasies in the childrens' stories of his late mother Diana Wynne Jones.

In the first of five essays about the history of an idea, the literary critic Colin Burrow explores fantasies in the children's stories of his late mother Dianna Wynne Jones.

First broadcast in July 2011.

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