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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: The Book that Changed Me

The Essay: The Book that Changed Me: Episode 9: The Silent Spring

The Silent Spring

Episode 9

Episode 9: The Silent Spring

The Book that Changed Me

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Journalist Julian Pettifer on how Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring inspired him.

Journalist Julian Pettifer explains how Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring turned him into an environmentalist.

Veteran journalist Julian Pettifer on how Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring turned him into an environmentalist and how her grave warnings about the use of chemicals turned deadly while he was reporting the Vietnam War.
Producer: Smita Patel

First broadcast in October 2011

First broadcast in October 2011.

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, academics and journalists discuss the books that inspired them in their careers

Series in which writers, academics and journalists discuss the books that inspired them in their careers

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