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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: Five Imaginary Scottish Places

The Essay: Five Imaginary Scottish Places: Episode 2: Thrums

Five Imaginary Scottish Places

Episode 2

Episode 2: Thrums

Thrums

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Five Imaginary Scottish Places, Thrums

Literary critic Stuart Kelly discusses JM Barrie's fictional Scottish town called Thrums.

Literary critic Stuart Kelly discusses author JM Barrie's fictional Scottish town called Thrums.

Brigadoon, Unthank, Thrums. There are places in Scottish literature which are missing from gazetteers or GPS. Literary critic Stuart Kelly explores the imaginary places where Scotland's finest writing is set. Today he travels to JM Barrie's imaginary "Thrums.".

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Stuart Kelly on imaginary locations that have provided settings for great Scottish novels.

Literary critic Stuart Kelly explores imaginary locations that have provided the settings for some of Scotland's greatest novels

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