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Supporting Content

• Five ways music and gardens can improve your wellbeing

  Katie Derham explores the links between two of her favourite things, music and gardens.

  

• Death in Trieste

  A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

  

• Watch: My Deaf World

  Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

  

• Rediscovering black portraiture through history

  Peter Brathwaite's amazing recreations of historical artworks featuring black characters.

  

• Tales of the riverbank – five powerful watery legends

  Rivers keep rolling along, but what secrets do they hold?

  

• How the Tsar's finest porcelain became a canvas for revolutionary slogans.

  

• Seven charming facts about flowers... and romance.

  

• Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

  

• Download The Essay

  Download all the episodes from the series and listen at your leisure.

  

• Watch: A different way to listen, with Elizabeth Elliott

  Elizabeth Elliott's Essay, with BSL interpretation and subtitles.

  Duration: 13:34

• Watch: A different way to listen, with Paul Whittaker

  Paul Whittaker's Essay, with BSL interpretation and subtitles. Image by PBG Studios.

  Duration: 13:42

• Watch: A different way to listen, with Chisato Minamimura

  Chisato Minamimura's Essay, with BSL interpretation and subtitles.

  Duration: 16:50

• Watch: A different way to listen, with Nigel Braithwaite

  Nigel Braithwaite's Essay, with BSL interpretation and subtitles.

  Duration: 13:36
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• From the Source: Inspiration from our rivers

• A walk through the literary forest with Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough

• Wisdom from fictional females - recorded at the Hay Festival 2018

• Hay Festival - The Art of Storytelling
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