Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Proms Plus Literary - Proms Poetry Competition
Ian McMillan is joined by poet Wendy Cope and actor Juliet Stevenson as he announces...
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Proms Plus Literary - Proms Poetry Competition
Ian McMillan, Judith Palmer and Don Paterson introduce the winning entries in this -...
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Proms Plus Literary - Poles in Britain
Polish is the third most spoken language in the UK, after English and Welsh, and the a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Poetry from WW1
On the centenary of Britain's entry into the First World War Dame Shirley Williams and...
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Proms Plus Literary - Playing Falstaff
What makes Falstaff, Prince Hal's fat, boastful and cowardly companion so irresistible...
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Proms Plus Literary - Music & Cinema
From the very first days of silent film to the contemporary CGI blockbuster, music has...
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Proms Plus Literary - Michael Tippett
Rana Mitter introduces an anthology of unexpected readings from the letters and of the...
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Proms Plus Literary - Mendelssohn
Musicologist John Deathridge, introduces an anthology of unexpected readings about...
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Proms Plus Literary - Melbourne
Melbourne prides itself on being the 'cultural and sporting capital of Australia'.co.
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Proms Plus Literary - Mahler
Rana Mitter talks to conductor and music blogger Kenneth Woods to bust some popular...
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Proms Plus Literary - Lyrics
Tell Me on a Sunday lyricist Don Black and singer-songwriter Barb Jungr discuss the as...
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Proms Plus Literary - Louis MacNeice
Former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and poet Paul Farley on the work of one of the most...
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Proms Plus Literary - Light Music
The writers Simon Heffer and Andrew O'Hagan discuss the halcyon days of light music at...
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Proms Plus Literary - Ken Russell
Glenda Jackson MP and film critic Mark Kermode celebrate the work of the late Ken the...
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Proms Plus Literary - John Tavener
Poet and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts and broadcaster Reverend Richard Coles on...
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Proms Plus Literary - John le Carr茅
In a special event John le Carr茅 celebrates the 50th anniversary of his Cold War The...
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Proms Plus Literary - Jane Glover
Conductor Jane Glover begins a new four part series in which musicians from this Proms...
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PROMS PLUS LITERARY - Gavin Maxwell
Nature writers Miriam Darlington and Horatio Clare join Rana Mitter to discuss the of...
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Proms Plus Literary - Edward Gardner
The Music Director of the ENO Edward Gardner, who will be conducting a concert of in...
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Proms Plus Literary - Edward Elgar
Award-winning film-maker John Bridcut introduces a selection of fascinating and about...
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Proms Plus Literary - Dylan Thomas
The current National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke and the painter Peter Blake the of...
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Proms Plus Literary - Desert Island
Which literary works make the most entries into celebrity choices on Radio 4鈥檚 is by...
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Proms Plus Literary - David Hill
Conductor David Hill continues the series in which leading musicians from this Proms...
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Proms Plus Literary - Craig Raine
The poet Craig Raine discusses the ways in which borrowing and reshaping existing is a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Christine Rice
Christine Rice with presenter Matthew Sweet, conclude the series of events in which of...
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Proms Plus Literary - Chinese Culture Today
Professor Rana Mitter discusses contemporary Chinese culture with a novelist and film...
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Proms Plus Literary - Britten & Poetry
Benjamin Britten's compositions were inspired by the work of many poets and novelists,...
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Proms Plus Literary - Billy Budd
D.H. Lawrence hailed Herman Melville's novella, Billy Budd, a masterpiece when it was...
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Proms Plus Literary - Arab Spring
蜜芽传媒 correspondent Ed Stourton is joined by Ahdaf Soueif & Karl Sharro to explore the...
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Proms Plus Literary
Playwright Mark Ravenhill and actor and writer Simon Callow discuss Faust with Matthew...
