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The Essay Odes to Essex Episodes

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  1. The Essex Way

    5/5 Writer Gillian Darley celebrates the unsung and lesser-known delights of mid-Essex.

  2. Brightening from the East

    4/5 Writer and social historian Ken Worpole introduces us to Essex's radical past.

  3. The Refusal of Place

    3/5 Writer Lavinia Greenlaw takes us back to the formative landscape of her childhood.

  4. Washed Up in Essex

    2/5 Writer AL Kennedy takes us on a watery journey through the county she now calls home.

  5. Metropolitan Essex

    1/5 Billy Bragg explores the London-Essex borderland that fuelled his childhood imagination.