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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: Forests

The Essay: Forests: Brothers Grimm

Forests

Brothers Grimm

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Dare to enter the dark Germanic forest of the Brothers Grimm.

Join Chris Riddell and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough in the dark Germanic forest of the Brothers Grimm. Don't forget the breadcrumbs.

Walk through a dark forest and you can't escape the brooding presence of the Brothers Grimm.  Unwilling to stray from the path?  A glimmer of sharp, white teeth behind that tree?  It’s the Brothers Grimm to blame. 

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is joined by the writer and illustrator Chris Riddell for a walk through the deep, dark Germanic forest of the Grimms' imagination.  The company may be agreeable and the conversation fascinating but be sure to leave a trail of breadcrumbs behind.

Producer: Alasdair Cross

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.

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough examines the great fictional forests of art and literature.

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