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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

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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: In the Shadow of Kafka

The Essay: In the Shadow of Kafka: Episode 2: His Father's Excrement - Franz Kafka and the Power of the Insect

In the Shadow of Kafka

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Episode 2: His Father's Excrement - Franz Kafka and the Power of the Insect

His Father's Excrement - Franz Kafka and the Power of the Insect

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, In the Shadow of Kafka, His Father's Excrement - Franz Kafka and the Power of the Insect

Hanif Kureishi on Franz Kafka's personal and artistic fascination with the body and food.

Playwright, film-maker and novelist Hanif Kureishi explores Franz Kafka's personal and artistic fascination with the body and food.

Franz Kafka means many things to many people. Five leading writers explore the breadth of his thinking, his world and how his writing still resonates for them as contemporary writers.

Part of In the Shadow of Kafka, Radio 3's series exploring the work and influence of Franz Kafka.

2. His Father's Excrement: Franz Kafka and the Power of the Insect - Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi explores Kafka's personal and artistic fascination with the body and food. A lifelong vegetarian, Kafka was tormented by his delicate digestion and his father's blustering, carnivorous robustness. His characters use their bodies as weapons to attack others and ultimately destroy themselves.

Hanif Kureishi is a playwright, film maker and novelist. 


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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.

Leading writers explore the breadth of Czech author Franz Kafka's thinking

Series in which leading writers explore the breadth of Czech author Franz Kafka's thinking, his world and how his writing still resonates for them

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