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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 4: Alec Leamas's coat (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)

Listener, They Wore It

Episode 4

Episode 4: Alec Leamas's coat (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)

Alec Leamas's coat (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Listener, They Wore It, Alec Leamas's coat (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)

Antonia Quirke on the coat worn by Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

Antonia Quirke discusses the coat worn by Richard Burton in the film The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

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. 

Antonia Quirke on a damp yet durable coat that appears in the film The Spy Who Came in From The Cold - which was made more significant when worn by a certain Richard Burton ...

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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