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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

Proms Plus: Letters

Ruth Ware and Shaun Usher discuss letter writing in the 21st century

• 37 mins

Revisit Anxiety, Teenagers, University and Leaving ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½

Psychologist Stephen Briers, student Ceyda Uzun and Durham Univeristy's Caroline Dower

• 44 mins

Proms Plus: Witches & Witchcraft

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Dr Thomas Waters in discussion with Dr Fern Riddell

• 21 mins

New Thinking: Fashion, AI and Sustainability

The Future Fashion Factory and changing our attitude to #fastfashion. Plus AI and colours

• 51 mins

Tolerance, censorship and free speech.

Susan Neiman, Ursula Owen & Christopher Hampton join Anne McElvoy.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation

Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and Ben Moser on Susan Sontag's 1966 essay collection.

• 51 mins

Back to the '80s

Alexei Sayle and Adam Mars Jones join Matthew Sweet to revisit '80s film, tv and music

• 44 mins

Anxiety

Comedian Sofie Hagen, Colombian novelist Héctor Abad & Isabel Hardman join Shahidha Bari.

• 45 mins

Surveillance, Conspiracy, and Secrets from the Archives

Matthew Sweet on surveillance capitalism, The Third Man, and Stieg Larsson's obsessions

• 45 mins