大象传媒 Radio 3 - The Essay

Black and White: Words on the Page

Writer Glyn Maxwell on whether we have become too black and white, and too binary.

Farrah Jarral talks about what it means to be fluent in something one doesn't understand

Heather Jones explores the deadly symbolism of the Howth Mauser

Nicholas Rankin explores the emergence of the deadly 'force reducer' that is the sniper

John Gallagher duels with the noisy story of guns 300 years ago

Brian DeLay reveals the life & arms deals of the most dangerous man you've never heard of

Catherine Fletcher unveils handguns' explosive Renaissance origin

Poet Alyson Hallett is drawn to chalk landscapes and the large horse at Westbury in Wilts

Novelist Sarah Moss discusses basalt and dolerite, the fire rocks that underpin castles.

Writer Paul Evans traces a family line back through Shropshire's seams of coal.