Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

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 6: The Smoking Diaries

The Smoking Diaries

Episode 6

Episode 6: The Smoking Diaries

The Book that Changed Me

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Book that Changed Me, The Smoking DiariesClose menu

Ed Smith explains how Simon Gray's The Smoking Diaries liberated him as a wordsmith.

Former England cricketer and now writer for The Times Ed Smith explains how Simon Gray's The Smoking Diaries liberated him as a wordsmith.

Former England cricketer and now writer for the Times, Ed Smith tells us how Simon Gray's The Smoking Diaries liberated him as a wordsmith. Throwing away the rulebook of formal writing, he was inspired to have the confidence to use words in a completely new way.
Producer: Smita Patel

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

Accessibility links

Programme Index

The Essay

The Book that Changed Me

Episode 6: The Smoking Diaries

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3