This week's very disappointing and irritating I thought, what I heard of it which was the beginning of two episodes, or was it three. Anyway, the essayist, Michael Rosen, seems to me to be not writing an essay at all. This does not seem to be anything like what I understood the essay programme to be. I thought it was supposed to be a serious essay presenting a point of view by means of a developed argument over a one hour slot, in the essayist's own voice, albeit in four sections of fifteen minutes each. We seem to have dumbed down already, not three months into this new intellectual programme.
Perhaps no one was listening. Well, I'm not surprised given the time. I would dearly love to listen, but it's past my bedtime.