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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

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: Listener, They Wore It

The Essay: Listener, They Wore It: Episode 2: Empress Elizabeth's Diamonds

Listener, They Wore It

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Episode 2: Empress Elizabeth's Diamonds

Empress Elizabeth's Diamonds

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Listener, They Wore It, Empress Elizabeth's Diamonds

Daisy Goodwin on diamonds in a portrait of Empress Elizabeth of Austria by Winterhalter.

Writer Daisy Goodwin discusses a set of diamond that adorns Empress Elizabeth of Austria in a portrait by Winterhalter.

For a second time, five writers were invited to think about an item of clothing or an accessory that figures memorably in a work of art, be it in a book or film or painting. So Julian Barnes describes a particular hat, Daisy Goodwin thinks about diamonds, Michael Bracewell remembers a vivid suit. Then Antonia Quirke muses on a spy's coat and a white shirt sported by a rock-star is recalled by Susannah Frankel...

Daisy Goodwin is wowed by a set of stones that adorn
Empress Elizabeth of Austria, in a portrait by Winterhalter.
The portrait also has a tale to tell..

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 examine how an item of clothing or an accessory figures memorably in a work of art

Five writers examine how an item of clothing or an accessory figures memorably in a work of art, be it in a book or film or painting

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