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The Essay Podcast

The Essay

Discussion & Talk

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: Wild Things

The Essay: Wild Things: Episode 5: The Fox

The Fox

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Episode 5: The Fox

Wild Things

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Ruth Padel explores how our attitudes to the fox have been changed and developed.

Writer and poet Ruth Padel explores how our attitudes to the fox have been changed and developed through history, science and literature.

In the last of her series of Essays considering our responses to creatures in the British landscape, the poet and writer Ruth Padel turns her attention to the fox. Drawing on a range of literary and historical examples, she charts the way in which our attitudes to it have changed and developed through the centuries and she asks what it means to us now.

Producer: Emma Kingsley.

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.

Poet and writer Ruth Padel explores our reactions to five British wild animals

Series in which poet and writer Ruth Padel explores our reactions to five British wild animals, through history, literature, folklore, science and cinema

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