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Poet Daljit Nagra selects two editions of The Essay with Neel Mukherjee and Ian Sansom.

The Essay: The Love that Wrote Its Name - The Loves of Elizabeth Bishop
Novelist Neel Mukherjee on the abiding reticence that characterises the work and the life of American poet Elizabeth Bishop, particularly in relation to her sexuality. Mukherjee explores the two great loves of Bishop's life: the Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares and American student Alice Methfessel, who was 32 years her junior. Originally part of Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexual acts that took place in private between two men over the age of 21.

Writer and reader - Neel Mukherjee

Producer - Simon Richardson.

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 3 in 2017

The Essay: More Letters to Writers - Dear Marianne

Continuing his imaginary correspondences with some of the world's great writers, Ian Sansom feels he must finally ask poet Marianne Moore about that cape and tricorn hat.

Producer - Conor Garrett

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 3 in 2017.

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