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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 & Traveller Culture
Writers Louise Doughty and Damian Le Bas discuss Gypsy, Roma & Traveller culture.

Proms Plus: FAIRY TALES
with Kerry Andrew and Katherine Langrish

Landmark Jaws: Sharks and Whales
Matthew Sweet talks Jaws with shark expert Gareth Fraser and novelist Will Self.

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