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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 5: Patti Smith's Shirt

Listener, They Wore It

Episode 5

Episode 5: Patti Smith's Shirt

Patti Smith's Shirt

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Listener, They Wore It, Patti Smith's Shirt

Susanna Frankel recalls a brilliant white shirt on the cover of an LP by Patti Smith.

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.

Susannah Frankel liked wearing men's shirts, white and often handed down from her father. She was influenced by that classic record cover for Horses, where Patti Smith made such a garment look beyond cool ...

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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