Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.
The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about depicting history and politics on film.
Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience
Books for children and children in books from Romanticism via the Victorians to now.
Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky
Shahidha Bari and Rolf Hind discuss Tchaikovsky鈥檚 letters, with readings from Tom Stuart
Proms Plus: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe and the gothic
Proms Plus: Tragedy
Tragedy ancient and modern with Clare Pollard and Jennifer Wallace
Proms Plus: Swans
Sacha Dench & Sarah Crompton discuss swans in the natural world & on the ballet stage.
Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking
The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about BlacKkKlansman & his 2000 film Bamboozled
Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark
The legends and landscapes that inspire composers from Finland and Russia
Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer
Poets Rachael Allen & Jacob Polley join Preti Taneja to reflect on the summer of 1969.
Proms Plus: Music and Health
Naomi Paxton discusses the latest science and clinical practice
