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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: Brick, Stone, Glass, Steel

The Essay: Brick, Stone, Glass, Steel: Episode 2: Impington College, Cambridge

Brick, Stone, Glass, Steel

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Episode 2: Impington College, Cambridge

Impington College, Cambridge

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Painter Humphrey Ocean introduces Impington College, built by architect Walter Gropius.

Painter Humphrey Ocean discusses Impington College, Cambridge, the only building Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius built in Britain.

British Painter Humphrey Ocean RA introduces us to Impington College, the only building the Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius built in Britain. Humphrey believes it accidentally became the template for the proliferation of the kind of brave, new, post-war architecture he grew up with. 

This week's Essays are part of the 70th birthday celebrations of the Third Programme: the network discussed architecture from its earliest days, covering both new initiatives and historic buildings, most notably in talks by Nikolaus Pevsner. 

Producer Clare Walker.

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.

Series about architecture, marking 70 years of Radio 3 and the Third Programme

Series about architecture, marking 70 years of Radio 3 and the Third Programme, a network which discussed the subject from its earliest days, covering both new initiatives and historic buildings

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