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Proms Plus: Sacrifice
Why the bible story of Jephtha caused more controversy than your average burnt offering.
Proms Plus: Landscape
Horatio Clare and Testament discuss landscape鈥檚 power to inspire writers
Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy
Nina Simone鈥檚 achievement with Kevin Legendre, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Zena Edwards
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.
Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books
Anindya Raychaudhuri discusses Kipling's Jungle Books with Frances Hardinge and Sue Walsh
Proms Plus: Russian Folktales
Marina Warner & Sophie Anderson enter a world of walking huts and fish that grant wishes
Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan
Laurence Scott meets the family of a rediscovered African American writer & 3 historians
Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun
Historians Kathryn Hughes & Lee Jackson discuss 19th century entertainment.
Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes
Shahidha Bari and Nick Groom on invented monks, fake Shakespeare and a "discovered" diary
Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction
Anne McElvoy looks at Napoleon's biography, caricatures and professional impersonators.
