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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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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: F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night

F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night

Listener, They Wore It

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Justine Picardie, editor of Harper's Bazaar, celebrates Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night.

Justine Picardie, editor of Harper's Bazaar, celebrates a whole wardrobe of clothes that shimmers in F Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender Is the Night.

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

Justine Picardie, author and editor of Harper's Bazaar, considers a whole pile of dresses and jewellery worn by Nicole Diver in Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender Is The Night. And how Nicole's passion for clothes is mirrored by the author's wife, Zelda.
 
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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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