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Proms Extra: Ella Fitzgerald
Kevin LeGendre and Claire Martin discuss Ella Fitzgerald

Proms Extra: Sentimentality
Anne McElvoy, Dr. Seán Williams & writer Rachel Hewitt discuss sentimentality.

Proms Extra: Happiness
Literature & unhappy people with Will Abberley, Charlotte Mendelson & Claudia Hammond.

Proms Extra: Sea Journeys and Voyages
Rana Mitter considers epic sea journeys in history with Barry Cunliffe & Edith Hall.

Proms Extra: Europe in Writing
Nandini Das & novelist Lawrence Norfolk discuss European writers & the idea of ‘Europe’.

Proms Extra: Opium and Creativity in the 19th c.
Matthew Sweet, Daisy Hay, Richard Davenport-Hines at Imperial College, London

Proms Extra: Music and Moods
Thomas Dixon and musicologist Wiebke Thormählen discuss music, literature and emotion.

Proms Extra - Deep Time
Geologist Iain Stewart and geographer Nicholas Crane consider the concept of "Deep Time"

Free Thinking: Landmark: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy
Simon Heffer and Tiffany Jenkins join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Sussex University.

Free Thinking: Art in the Age of Black Power; History of Racist Ideas in US
Rana Mitter and Linton Kwesi Johnson and Ibram X Kendi