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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: Being Orson

The Essay: Being Orson: Episode 5: Some Kind of Genius

Factual: Life Stories

Being Orson

Episode 5

Episode 5: Some Kind of Genius

Some Kind of Genius

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Film critic David Thomson explores Orson Welles's complicated relationship with failure.

Critic David Thomson explores film-maker Orson Welles's complicated relationship with failure. His career was marked by many lost and half-finished projects.

Welles's career is littered with lost and half-finished projects. Film critic, David Thomson explores the man's complicated relationship with failure.

Five essays by five enthusiasts that follow the rise and fall of controversial Renaissance man, Orson Welles. 

Produced by Gemma Jenkins.

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.

Discussing actor, film director, radio producer and theatre impresario Orson Welles

Series of commentaries about the life of Orson Welles, who was an actor, film director, radio producer and theatre impresario

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