Arts & Ideas Episodes Episode guide
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Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky
Shahidha Bari and Rolf Hind discuss Tchaikovsky鈥檚 letters, with readings from Tom Stuart
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Proms Plus Literary: Vaughan Williams
Composer Anthony Payne introduces readings about and by one of the great composers in...
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Proms Plus Literary: Martin Amis
Novelist Martin Amis discusses 'The Zone of Interest', his 14th novel, in which he the...
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Proms Plus Literary: Dante and Andrew Litton
Historical novelist Sarah Dunant and Margaret Keane, author of 鈥業nferno鈥�, discuss...
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Proms Plus Literary - WW1's Lost Generation
Award-winning novelist and poet Helen Dunmore and the writer Simon Heffer discuss the...
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Proms Plus Literary - Tony Harrison
The poet and playwright Tony Harrison talks to Matthew Sweet about his passionate to...
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Proms Plus Literary - The Taming of the Shrew
Rana Mitter talks to the actors Janet Suzman and Alexandra Gilbreath about The Taming...
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Proms Plus Literary - The Sound of Outer Space
Capturing the sound of dark matter, comets and distant planets is one of the toughest...
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Proms Plus Literary - The Handmaid's Tale
Veteran war reporter Kate Adie and novelist Aminatta Forna discuss Margaret Atwood's a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Sylvia Plath
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Sylvia Plath and the publication of her a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Sunset Song
Poet Jackie Kay and novelist Ali Smith discuss one of the great Scottish novels, Song...
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Proms Plus Literary - Staging Wagner
Wagner's stage directions are notorious: giant dragons; underwater singing; horses on...
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Proms Plus Literary - Russian Classics
Novelist Pat Barker and Revd Giles Fraser discuss with presenter Ian McMillan what can...
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Proms Plus Literary - Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev was one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century. His charisma and a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Romanticism
Robert Crawford and Fiona Stafford discuss how the Romantic movement linked Beethoven...
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Proms Plus Literary - Robert Frost
In 1914 the American poet Robert Frost published his collection 'North of Boston'.co.
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Proms Plus Literary - Responses to War
The Booker prize winning novelist Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy on of...
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Proms Plus Literary - Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw鈥檚 play Pygmalion, the inspiration for My Fair Lady, is discussed...
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Proms Plus Literary - Proms Poetry Competition
Ian McMillan is joined by poet Wendy Cope and actor Juliet Stevenson as he announces...
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Proms Plus Literary - Proms Poetry Competition
Ian McMillan, Judith Palmer and Don Paterson introduce the winning entries in this -...
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Proms Plus Literary - Poles in Britain
Polish is the third most spoken language in the UK, after English and Welsh, and the a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Poetry from WW1
On the centenary of Britain's entry into the First World War Dame Shirley Williams and...
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Proms Plus Literary - Playing Falstaff
What makes Falstaff, Prince Hal's fat, boastful and cowardly companion so irresistible...
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Proms Plus Literary - Music & Cinema
From the very first days of silent film to the contemporary CGI blockbuster, music has...
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Proms Plus Literary - Michael Tippett
Rana Mitter introduces an anthology of unexpected readings from the letters and of the...
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Proms Plus Literary - Mendelssohn
Musicologist John Deathridge, introduces an anthology of unexpected readings about...
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Proms Plus Literary - Melbourne
Melbourne prides itself on being the 'cultural and sporting capital of Australia'.co.
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Proms Plus Literary - Mahler
Rana Mitter talks to conductor and music blogger Kenneth Woods to bust some popular...
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Proms Plus Literary - Lyrics
Tell Me on a Sunday lyricist Don Black and singer-songwriter Barb Jungr discuss the as...
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Proms Plus Literary - Louis MacNeice
Former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and poet Paul Farley on the work of one of the most...
