Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Queen Charlotte, fashion and music
Shahidha Bari and guests on a Royal Collection exhibition and the new Bridgerton spin off
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Quatermass
Matthew Sweet celebrates the classic TV sci-fi series with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
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Punk
Shahidha Bari digs into the filth and the fury to see what resonates today
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Psychohistory: Isaac Asimov and guiding the future
Matthew Sweet asks if the fictional science of psychohistory changed the future of humans
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Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
Jane Smiley, Christopher Prendergast, Jayne Haynes, Marie Darrieussecq with Matthew Sweet
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Proms Poetry Competition - 08 September 15
The winning entries in this year's Proms Poetry Competition
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Proms Poetry Competition
Judges Ian McMillan, Jackie Kay & Judith Palmer are joined on stage by the winning poets.
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Proms Poetry Competition
The poet Daljit Nagra and Radio 3 presenter Ian McMillan introduce the winning entries...
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Proms Plus: Witches & Witchcraft
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Dr Thomas Waters in discussion with Dr Fern Riddell
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Proms Plus: W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety
Writers Glyn Maxwell and Polly Clark discuss Auden鈥檚 The Age of Anxiety
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Proms Plus: Tragedy
Tragedy ancient and modern with Clare Pollard and Jennifer Wallace
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Proms Plus: The Weeping Prophet and Visions of Chaos
With the novelist Salley Vickers and literary historian Joe Moshenska
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Proms Plus: The Wanderer
Lauren Elkin & Se谩n Williams discuss why walking is an inspiration for writers.
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Proms Plus: Swans
Sacha Dench & Sarah Crompton discuss swans in the natural world & on the ballet stage.
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Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania
Historians Laura Rowe and Saul David on the controversial torpedoing of an ocean liner
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Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature
Writers Belinda Bauer and Patricia Duncker discuss sex and death in literature
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Proms Plus: Sacrifice
Why the bible story of Jephtha caused more controversy than your average burnt offering.
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Proms Plus: Russian Folktales
Marina Warner & Sophie Anderson enter a world of walking huts and fish that grant wishes
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Proms Plus: Retelling Troy
Bettany Hughes and Alex Clark discuss feminist retellings of The Iliad.
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Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry
Faithful but dull or unfaithful and interesting that is the question
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Proms Plus: Northern Lights
Physicists Nathan Case & Melanie Windridge discuss the the aurora borealis.
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Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark
The legends and landscapes that inspire composers from Finland and Russia
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Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy
Nina Simone鈥檚 achievement with Kevin Legendre, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Zena Edwards
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Proms Plus: Music and Health
Naomi Paxton discusses the latest science and clinical practice
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Proms Plus: Mountains
Abbie Garrington, Dan Richards discuss how mountains & wild landscapes inspire creativity
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Proms Plus: Moon Landing
Richard Wiseman and Melanie Vandenbrouck discuss the impact of the first Moon landing
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Proms Plus: London in Fact & Fiction
Novelists John Lanchester & Diana Evans discuss depicting London in their fiction.
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Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes
Shahidha Bari and Nick Groom on invented monks, fake Shakespeare and a "discovered" diary
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Proms Plus: Letters
Ruth Ware and Shaun Usher discuss letter writing in the 21st century
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Proms Plus: Landscape
Horatio Clare and Testament discuss landscape鈥檚 power to inspire writers
