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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 Screen Goddesses

The Essay: Five Screen Goddesses: Episode 3: Jean Harlow

Five Screen Goddesses

Episode 3

Episode 3: Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow

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Sarah Churchwell discusses the original 'blonde bombshell', actress Jean Harlow.

Author and broadcaster Sarah Churchwell describes the spell that female film stars of the 1930s and '40s have over her..

From Barbara Stanwyck, 'the tough broad', to a vision of modernity who is all 'satin' and 'chrome'. The author moves on to consider the original 'blonde bombshell' - Jean Harlow.

Producer Duncan Minshull.

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.

Sarah Churchwell describes the spell female film stars of the 1930s and 40s have over her.

Author and broadcaster Sarah Churchwell describes the spell that female film stars of the 1930s and 40s have over her

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