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The Essay Podcast

The Essay

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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: Commonwealth Questions

The Essay: Commonwealth Questions: Episode 4: Farah Ghuznavi

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Episode 4: Farah Ghuznavi

Commonwealth Questions

Farah Ghuznavi

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Writer Farah Ghuznavi explains why she no longer sees the Commonwealth as an irrelevance.

Bangladeshi writer Farah Ghuznavi saw Commonwealth as an irrelevance in her early life. Here she explains what changed her mind.

A series of five essays from writers around the Commonwealth which start on Commonwealth Day 10th March and tackle the past, present and future of this unique international organisation.

Farah Ghuznavi from Bangladesh has been Writer in Residence for Commonwealth Writers. She saw the Commonwealth as an irrelevance in her early life. Here she explains what changed her mind.

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 around the Commonwealth scrutinise the destiny of this unique international body

Series of contributions for Commonwealth Day 2014 in which writers from around the Commonwealth scrutinise the destiny of this unique international body

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