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Caine Prize. Ivo van Hove. Female Desire.

Shahidha Bari looks at staging Ayn Rand's ideas and meets the 2019 Caine Prize winner.

• 45 mins

An insider's view of war

Ex-Marine & journalist Elliot Ackerman on Al Qaeda and the Iraq War. Rana Mitter presents

• 58 mins

Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia in conversation with Philip Dodd about free speech and feminism

• 45 mins

New Thinking: City Talk

Mapping the accents of Greater Manchester with a camper van and a laptop

• 39 mins

New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles

What happens when one becomes two?

• 48 mins

New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language

From Juliet's uncertainty, to finding a phrase for descending the stairs

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations

A lack of Neolithic dental floss proves to be a boon for archaeologists,

• 40 mins

New angles on post-war Germany and Austria

Anne McElvoy with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell, Tom Smith

• 45 mins

Book Parts and Difficulty

Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.

• 46 mins

Proms Plus: Moon Landing

Richard Wiseman and Melanie Vandenbrouck discuss the impact of the first Moon landing

• 37 mins

Proms Plus: Music and Health

Naomi Paxton discusses the latest science and clinical practice

• 34 mins

Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer

Poets Rachael Allen & Jacob Polley join Preti Taneja to reflect on the summer of 1969.

• 32 mins

Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark

The legends and landscapes that inspire composers from Finland and Russia

• 25 mins

Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking

The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about BlacKkKlansman & his 2000 film Bamboozled

• 45 mins

Proms Plus: Swans

Sacha Dench & Sarah Crompton discuss swans in the natural world & on the ballet stage.

• 21 mins

Proms Plus: Tragedy

Tragedy ancient and modern with Clare Pollard and Jennifer Wallace

• 33 mins

Proms Plus: Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe and the gothic

• 21 mins

Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky

Shahidha Bari and Rolf Hind discuss Tchaikovsky’s letters, with readings from Tom Stuart

• 25 mins

Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience

Books for children and children in books from Romanticism via the Victorians to now.

• 36 mins

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.

• 45 mins

Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction

Anne McElvoy looks at Napoleon's biography, caricatures and professional impersonators.

• 42 mins

Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes

Shahidha Bari and Nick Groom on invented monks, fake Shakespeare and a "discovered" diary

• 28 mins

Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun

Historians Kathryn Hughes & Lee Jackson discuss 19th century entertainment.

• 21 mins

Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan

Laurence Scott meets the family of a rediscovered African American writer & 3 historians

• 43 mins

Proms Plus: Russian Folktales

Marina Warner & Sophie Anderson enter a world of walking huts and fish that grant wishes

• 21 mins

Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books

Anindya Raychaudhuri discusses Kipling's Jungle Books with Frances Hardinge and Sue Walsh

• 34 mins

Proms Plus: Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Seán Williams explores Beethoven’s 9th and Schiller’s accompanying text, An Ode to Joy.

• 25 mins

Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy

Nina Simone’s achievement with Kevin Legendre, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Zena Edwards

• 34 mins

Proms Plus: Landscape

Horatio Clare and Testament discuss landscape’s power to inspire writers

• 34 mins

Proms Plus: Sacrifice

Why the bible story of Jephtha caused more controversy than your average burnt offering.

• 20 mins