Over the past few months, she has broadcast extended essays on cultural touchstones like the Mamas and the Papas' hit "California Dreamin' " and a famous 1941 Rita Hayworth pinup as part of NPR's Present at the Creation series.
A version of DJ Taylor's essay, broadcast this week on BBC Radio 4, can be downloaded here.
In radio, he has written essays broadcast on NPR Weekend Edition and KQED San Francisco.
Within months of the broadcast, Sedaris's essays began to appear in such magazines as Harper's, The New Yorker, and Esquire.
The Times of London has reported that his ashes were scattered in Central Park, though Ms. Kittredge declined to confirm those reports, saying, "That would be illegal". Though he was best known in his adopted country for the PBS television series "Masterpiece Theater," Mr. Cooke was renowned in England for the "Letter From America," a series of 13-minute essays broadcast weekly on BBC radio.
Another colleague, the "CBS Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley, spoke of the void that Mr. Rooney had left at "60 Minutes," which had ended every broadcast since 1978 with an essay by him.
Sarah Connolly's The Essay is broadcast on Radio 3 on 7 March at 10.45pm, in a series looking at inspiring women in music as part of Radio 3's celebration of International Women's Day on 8 March.
After hearing the broadcast of a radio essay about the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles in 1943, Mr. Davidson asked Mr. Valdez to write a show about the event that sparked the unrest, the killing of a 21-year-old man, Jose Diaz, in what was known as the Sleepy Lagoon murder case.
Music on the Brink: The Essay is broadcast Monday to Friday this week at 22 45 GMT , Radio3. From England came the heavy-drinking Mancunian Joseph Blackburne (nickname "The Black Death").
