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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: Listener, They Wore It: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2

Federico Fellini's 8 1/2

Listener, They Wore It

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Stephen Bayley celebrates some timeless eyewear, carried off brilliantly in a famous film.

Author and critic Stephen Bayley celebrates some timeless eyewear, carried off brilliantly by an 'international sex god' in a famous film.

Five writers recall clothes and accessories that resonate vividly in works of art:

Author and critic Stephen Bayley on a pair of glasses sported brilliantly in the film 8 1/2 by Marcello Mastroianni. So classic and cool are the frames, that we desire them today.
 
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The Essay: Listener, They Wore It

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.

Five writers examine items of clothing that figure memorably in a work of art.

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