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The Essay

Masculinity

The Well-Groomed Georgian

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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To be clean-shaven was gentlemanly, so a new market emerged for shaving soaps, pastes and powders. But these products gave mixed messages on the essence of the ideal man. Show more

The Essay

Masculinity

'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The History of the Three-Piece Suit

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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An audience at York Festival of Ideas is introduced to Beau Brummel and others who have understood the mixed messages of suits through time. Show more

The Essay

Masculinity

Sword to Pen: Redcoat and the Rise of the Military Memoir

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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A long century of war culminating with British victory against Napoleon was marked by the emergence of a new kind of military memoir on the nature of war and its personal costs. Show more

The Essay

Masculinity

The Hard Man in the Call Centre

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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Glasgow's hardman - Alistair Fraser regales an audience at York Festival of Ideas with some of the highlights and lowlights of a story perhaps coming to an end. Show more