Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books
Anindya Raychaudhuri discusses Kipling's Jungle Books with Frances Hardinge and Sue Walsh
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Proms Plus: Funny Fiction
Inspired by Beethoven's musical jokes, Meg Rosoff selects an array of comic fiction
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Proms Plus: Folklore of Britain and Ireland
Poets Gillian Clarke and Peter Mackay discuss the folktales of the islands of the UK
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Proms Plus: FAIRY TALES
with Kerry Andrew and Katherine Langrish
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Proms Plus: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe and the gothic
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Proms Plus: Ecstatic States
Christopher Harding, philosopher Mark Vernon & Hetta Howes discuss ecstatic states.
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Proms Plus: Daphnis & Chloe
Prof. Tim Whitmarsh & dance critic Judith Mackrell discuss Longus's Daphnis & Chloe.
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Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience
Books for children and children in books from Romanticism via the Victorians to now.
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Proms Plus: British Countryside real & imagined
Writer Melissa Harrison, archaeologist Francis Pryor on British countryside & rural life
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Proms Plus: Birds and Humans
Tim Birkhead and Helen Macdonald on humanity's long relationship with birds
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Proms Plus: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Se谩n Williams explores Beethoven鈥檚 9th and Schiller鈥檚 accompanying text, An Ode to Joy.
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Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer
Poets Rachael Allen & Jacob Polley join Preti Taneja to reflect on the summer of 1969.
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Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky
Shahidha Bari and Rolf Hind discuss Tchaikovsky鈥檚 letters, with readings from Tom Stuart
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Proms Plus Literary: Vaughan Williams
Composer Anthony Payne introduces readings about and by one of the great composers in...
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Proms Plus Literary: Martin Amis
Novelist Martin Amis discusses 'The Zone of Interest', his 14th novel, in which he the...
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Proms Plus Literary: Dante and Andrew Litton
Historical novelist Sarah Dunant and Margaret Keane, author of 鈥業nferno鈥�, discuss...
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Proms Plus Literary - WW1's Lost Generation
Award-winning novelist and poet Helen Dunmore and the writer Simon Heffer discuss the...
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Proms Plus Literary - Tony Harrison
The poet and playwright Tony Harrison talks to Matthew Sweet about his passionate to...
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Proms Plus Literary - The Taming of the Shrew
Rana Mitter talks to the actors Janet Suzman and Alexandra Gilbreath about The Taming...
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Proms Plus Literary - The Sound of Outer Space
Capturing the sound of dark matter, comets and distant planets is one of the toughest...
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Proms Plus Literary - The Handmaid's Tale
Veteran war reporter Kate Adie and novelist Aminatta Forna discuss Margaret Atwood's a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Sylvia Plath
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Sylvia Plath and the publication of her a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Sunset Song
Poet Jackie Kay and novelist Ali Smith discuss one of the great Scottish novels, Song...
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Proms Plus Literary - Staging Wagner
Wagner's stage directions are notorious: giant dragons; underwater singing; horses on...
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Proms Plus Literary - Russian Classics
Novelist Pat Barker and Revd Giles Fraser discuss with presenter Ian McMillan what can...
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Proms Plus Literary - Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev was one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century. His charisma and a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Romanticism
Robert Crawford and Fiona Stafford discuss how the Romantic movement linked Beethoven...
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Proms Plus Literary - Robert Frost
In 1914 the American poet Robert Frost published his collection 'North of Boston'.co.
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Proms Plus Literary - Responses to War
The Booker prize winning novelist Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy on of...
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Proms Plus Literary - Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw鈥檚 play Pygmalion, the inspiration for My Fair Lady, is discussed...
