Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Proms Plus: The Wanderer
Lauren Elkin & Se谩n Williams discuss why walking is an inspiration for writers.
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Proms Plus: Swans
Sacha Dench & Sarah Crompton discuss swans in the natural world & on the ballet stage.
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Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania
Historians Laura Rowe and Saul David on the controversial torpedoing of an ocean liner
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Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature
Writers Belinda Bauer and Patricia Duncker discuss sex and death in literature
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Proms Plus: Sacrifice
Why the bible story of Jephtha caused more controversy than your average burnt offering.
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Proms Plus: Russian Folktales
Marina Warner & Sophie Anderson enter a world of walking huts and fish that grant wishes
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Proms Plus: Retelling Troy
Bettany Hughes and Alex Clark discuss feminist retellings of The Iliad.
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Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry
Faithful but dull or unfaithful and interesting that is the question
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Proms Plus: Northern Lights
Physicists Nathan Case & Melanie Windridge discuss the the aurora borealis.
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Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark
The legends and landscapes that inspire composers from Finland and Russia
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Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy
Nina Simone鈥檚 achievement with Kevin Legendre, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Zena Edwards
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Proms Plus: Music and Health
Naomi Paxton discusses the latest science and clinical practice
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Proms Plus: Mountains
Abbie Garrington, Dan Richards discuss how mountains & wild landscapes inspire creativity
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Proms Plus: Moon Landing
Richard Wiseman and Melanie Vandenbrouck discuss the impact of the first Moon landing
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Proms Plus: London in Fact & Fiction
Novelists John Lanchester & Diana Evans discuss depicting London in their fiction.
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Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes
Shahidha Bari and Nick Groom on invented monks, fake Shakespeare and a "discovered" diary
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Proms Plus: Letters
Ruth Ware and Shaun Usher discuss letter writing in the 21st century
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Proms Plus: Landscape
Horatio Clare and Testament discuss landscape鈥檚 power to inspire writers
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Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books
Anindya Raychaudhuri discusses Kipling's Jungle Books with Frances Hardinge and Sue Walsh
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Proms Plus: Funny Fiction
Inspired by Beethoven's musical jokes, Meg Rosoff selects an array of comic fiction
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Proms Plus: Folklore of Britain and Ireland
Poets Gillian Clarke and Peter Mackay discuss the folktales of the islands of the UK
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Proms Plus: FAIRY TALES
with Kerry Andrew and Katherine Langrish
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Proms Plus: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe and the gothic
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Proms Plus: Ecstatic States
Christopher Harding, philosopher Mark Vernon & Hetta Howes discuss ecstatic states.
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Proms Plus: Daphnis & Chloe
Prof. Tim Whitmarsh & dance critic Judith Mackrell discuss Longus's Daphnis & Chloe.
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Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience
Books for children and children in books from Romanticism via the Victorians to now.
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Proms Plus: British Countryside real & imagined
Writer Melissa Harrison, archaeologist Francis Pryor on British countryside & rural life
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Proms Plus: Birds and Humans
Tim Birkhead and Helen Macdonald on humanity's long relationship with birds
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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.
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Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer
Poets Rachael Allen & Jacob Polley join Preti Taneja to reflect on the summer of 1969.
