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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: Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse

Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse

Listener, They Wore It

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Rachel Cooke on a famous pair of 'peddle pushers' in the novel Bonjour Tristesse.

Journalist Rachel Cooke on a famous pair of 'peddle pushers' in the novel Bonjour Tristesse, and how she attempted to pull off the same style.

Five writers recall clothes and accessories that resonate vividly in works of art:
 
Journalist Rachel Cooke remembers reading the best-seller Bonjour Tristesse as a teenager, in which a character's memorable slacks, or 'pedal pushers', said everything about French chic. Or so she thought.

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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