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The Essay Podcast

The Essay

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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: Let There Be Dark

The Essay: Let There Be Dark: Episode 1: Let There Be Dark

Let There Be Dark

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Episode 1: Let There Be Dark

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Rupert Goodwins on what going blind suddenly taught him about science, culture and life.

Technology journalist Rupert Goodwins reflects on what going blind suddenly taught him about science, culture and life.

When journalist Rupert Goodwins started losing his sight, he wasn't expecting a journey to the back of his eyeballs that would take him 500 million years through time with stops for the evolution of modern philosophy, the nature of experience and the curious nature of sight itself. The surprise began in the night sky when the stars started going out...

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Technology journalist Rupert Goodwins reflects on what it means to lose one's sight

Technology journalist Rupert Goodwins presents a series of reflections on what it means to lose one's sight

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