Episodes to download
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Proms Plus: Retelling Troy
Tue 18 Sep 2018
Bettany Hughes and Alex Clark discuss feminist retellings of The Iliad.
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Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature
Mon 3 Sep 2018
Writers Belinda Bauer and Patricia Duncker discuss sex and death in literature
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Proms Plus: Northern Lights
Wed 29 Aug 2018
Physicists Nathan Case & Melanie Windridge discuss the the aurora borealis.
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Proms Plus: W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety
Wed 29 Aug 2018
Writers Glyn Maxwell and Polly Clark discuss Auden’s The Age of Anxiety
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Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Culture
Thu 23 Aug 2018
Writers Louise Doughty and Damian Le Bas discuss Gypsy, Roma & Traveller culture.
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Proms Plus: Fairy Tales
Tue 21 Aug 2018
A composer and a writer use the world of fairy and folk to explore the world as it is.
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Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania
Wed 15 Aug 2018
Historians Laura Rowe and Saul David on the controversial torpedoing of an ocean liner
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Proms Plus: Ecstatic States
Tue 14 Aug 2018
Christopher Harding, philosopher Mark Vernon & Hetta Howes discuss ecstatic states.
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Proms Plus: The Weeping Prophet and Visions of Chaos
Mon 13 Aug 2018
With the novelist Salley Vickers and literary historian Joe Moshenska
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Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry
Mon 6 Aug 2018
Faithful but dull or unfaithful and interesting that is the question
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Proms Plus: Folklore of Britain and Ireland
Mon 6 Aug 2018
Poets Gillian Clarke and Peter Mackay discuss the folktales of the islands of the UK
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Proms Plus: London in Fact and Fiction
Tue 31 Jul 2018
Novelists John Lanchester & Diana Evans discuss depicting London in their fiction.
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Proms Plus: Mountains
Mon 30 Jul 2018
Abbie Garrington, Dan Richards discuss how mountains & wild landscapes inspire creativity
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Proms Plus: Funny Fiction
Sat 28 Jul 2018
Inspired by Beethoven's musical jokes, Meg Rosoff selects an array of comic fiction
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Proms Plus: British Countryside Real and Imagined
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Writer Melissa Harrison, archaeologist Francis Pryor on British countryside & rural life.
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Proms Plus: Birds and Humans
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Tim Birkhead and Helen Macdonald on humanity's long relationship with birds
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Proms Plus: The Wanderer
Wed 25 Jul 2018
Lauren Elkin & Seán Williams discuss why walking is an inspiration for writers.
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Proms Plus: Exploring the Narrative Voice in Literature
Sat 21 Jul 2018
Sarah Dillon and novelist Richard Beard on narrative voices in literature.
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Proms Plus: Daphnis & Chloe
Tue 17 Jul 2018
Prof. Tim Whitmarsh & dance critic Judith Mackrell discuss Longus's Daphnis & Chloe.
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Proms Extra: Alan Hollinghurst
Mon 4 Sep 2017
Booker Prize winner, Alan Hollinghurst, discusses his new book, The Sparsholt Affair.
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Proms Extra: Lenin
Fri 1 Sep 2017
Anne McElvoy discusses Lenin with historians Helen Rappaport and Victor Sebestyen.
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Proms Extra: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Tue 29 Aug 2017
Rana Mitter is joined by Kathleen Burk & Joanna Cohen to discuss the Gettysburg Address.
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Proms Extra: Ancient Rome
Tue 29 Aug 2017
Matthew Sweet talks to Natalie Haynes about the glory that was Rome.
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Proms Extra: Unfinished Art and Literature
Wed 23 Aug 2017
Ian McMillan on the appeal and arts of the Unfinished
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Proms Extra: Djinn
Fri 18 Aug 2017
Elif Shafak and Shahidha Bari tell Ian McMillan why humans need the genie
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Proms Extra: Sleep and Insomnia
Wed 16 Aug 2017
Sports sleep coach Nick Littlehales & novelist A. L. Kennedy discuss sleep & insomnia.
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Proms Extra: Cuneiform
Tue 8 Aug 2017
Irving Finkel and Shahidha Bari on Mesopotamian writing, jokes and boat building specs.
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Proms Extra: Ella Fitzgerald
Mon 7 Aug 2017
Kevin LeGendre and Claire Martin discuss Ella Fitzgerald
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Proms Extra: Sentimentality
Thu 3 Aug 2017
Anne McElvoy, Dr. Seán Williams & writer Rachel Hewitt discuss sentimentality.
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Proms Extra: Happiness
Wed 2 Aug 2017
Literature & unhappy people with Will Abberley, Charlotte Mendelson & Claudia Hammond.
