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Proms Plus: Retelling Troy
Bettany Hughes and Alex Clark discuss feminist retellings of The Iliad.
Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature
Writers Belinda Bauer and Patricia Duncker discuss sex and death in literature
Proms Plus: Northern Lights
Physicists Nathan Case & Melanie Windridge discuss the the aurora borealis.
Proms Plus: W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety
Writers Glyn Maxwell and Polly Clark discuss Auden’s The Age of Anxiety
Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Culture
Writers Louise Doughty and Damian Le Bas discuss Gypsy, Roma & Traveller culture.
Proms Plus: Fairy Tales
A composer and a writer use the world of fairy and folk to explore the world as it is.
Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania
Historians Laura Rowe and Saul David on the controversial torpedoing of an ocean liner
Proms Plus: Ecstatic States
Christopher Harding, philosopher Mark Vernon & Hetta Howes discuss ecstatic states.
Proms Plus: The Weeping Prophet and Visions of Chaos
With the novelist Salley Vickers and literary historian Joe Moshenska
Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry
Faithful but dull or unfaithful and interesting that is the question
