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The Essay Minds at War: Series 2 Episodes

    Akhmatova's July 1914

    5/5 Sasha Dugdale explores the impact of World War I on the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.

    Parade

    4/5 Richard Cork discusses Pablo Picasso's designs for the Ballets Russes production Parade.

    Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

    3/5 How Virginia Woolf and her great novel Mrs Dalloway were shaped by the 1914-18 conflict.

    Tzara's Dada Manifesto

    2/5 Comedian Arthur Smith presents a dadaesque account of Tristan Tzara's Dada Manifesto.

    Tagore's Nobel Lectures

    1/5 Santanu Das discusses the Nobel lectures of the great Indian thinker Rabindranath Tagore.