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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: Being Orson

The Essay: Being Orson: Episode 4: F for Fake

Factual: Life Stories

Being Orson

Episode 4

Episode 4: F for Fake

F for Fake

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Sarah Churchwell discusses film-maker Orson Welles's capacity for self-mythologising.

Academic Sarah Churchwell discusses film-maker Orson Welles's capacity for self-mythologising and how he compares with fiction's great dissembler, Jay Gatsby.

Five essays by five enthusiasts that follow the rise and fall of controversial Renaissance man, Orson Welles. 

Gatsby expert, Sarah Churchwell on Welles's talent for self-mythologizing and how he compares with fiction's great dissembler, Jay Gatsby.

Produced by Gemma Jenkins.

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.

Discussing actor, film director, radio producer and theatre impresario Orson Welles

Series of commentaries about the life of Orson Welles, who was an actor, film director, radio producer and theatre impresario

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