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John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet

Curing lovesickness or learning alchemy's secrets. Seb Falk on Chaucer's friend John Gower

• 18 mins

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Woman鈥檚 Rights

Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence

• 17 mins

The Working Lunch and Food in History

How the Victorians changed lunch, Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.

• 44 mins

The body, past and present

Beauty - Renaissance to the present. Chantal Joffe & Heather Widdows with Anne McElvoy

• 44 mins

Fun 91热爆, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, The Deer Hunter

Alison Bechdel's memoir on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker, Oscar Wilde in the USA

• 45 mins

What do you call a stranger? The Caine Prize. NHS ideals.

Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.

• 44 mins

Renzo Piano

The Italian architect talks to Philip Dodd about his career from the Pompidou to the Shard

• 44 mins

From C18 automata to Superheroes and Digital Living

Matthew Sweet visits The Marvellous Mechanical Museum at Compton Verney.

• 45 mins

Philosophical tennis, hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx.

Matthew Sweet takes a walk around Eleanor Marx's old neighborhood.

• 45 mins

Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard

Anne McElvoy and sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld, artist Dale Harding, writer Stella Tillyard

• 48 mins

Howard Jacobson

Writer Howard Jacobson with a keynote lecture on why we need the novel.

• 50 mins

Proms Plus: Daphnis & Chloe

Prof. Tim Whitmarsh & dance critic Judith Mackrell discuss Longus's Daphnis & Chloe.

• 21 mins

Proms Plus 鈥� exploring the narrative voice in literature

Sarah Dillon and novelist Richard Beard on narrative voices in literature

• 20 mins

Proms Plus: The Wanderer

Lauren Elkin & Se谩n Williams discuss why walking is an inspiration for writers.

• 21 mins

Proms Plus: Birds and Humans

Tim Birkhead and Helen Macdonald on humanity's long relationship with birds

• 33 mins

Proms Plus: British Countryside real & imagined

Writer Melissa Harrison, archaeologist Francis Pryor on British countryside & rural life

• 36 mins

Proms Plus: Funny Fiction

Inspired by Beethoven's musical jokes, Meg Rosoff selects an array of comic fiction

• 20 mins

Proms Plus: Mountains

Abbie Garrington, Dan Richards discuss how mountains & wild landscapes inspire creativity

• 33 mins

Proms Plus: London in Fact & Fiction

Novelists John Lanchester & Diana Evans discuss depicting London in their fiction.

• 36 mins

Proms Plus: Folklore of Britain and Ireland

Poets Gillian Clarke and Peter Mackay discuss the folktales of the islands of the UK

• 21 mins

Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry

Faithful but dull or unfaithful and interesting that is the question

• 34 mins

Proms Plus: The Weeping Prophet and Visions of Chaos

With the novelist Salley Vickers and literary historian Joe Moshenska

• 32 mins

Proms Plus: Ecstatic States

Christopher Harding, philosopher Mark Vernon & Hetta Howes discuss ecstatic states.

• 21 mins

Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania

Historians Laura Rowe and Saul David on the controversial torpedoing of an ocean liner

• 26 mins

Landmark Jaws: Sharks and Whales

Matthew Sweet talks Jaws with shark expert Gareth Fraser and novelist Will Self.

• 44 mins

Proms Plus: FAIRY TALES

with Kerry Andrew and Katherine Langrish

• 31 mins

Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Culture

Writers Louise Doughty and Damian Le Bas discuss Gypsy, Roma & Traveller culture.

• 37 mins

Proms Plus: W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety

Writers Glyn Maxwell and Polly Clark discuss Auden鈥檚 The Age of Anxiety

• 31 mins

Proms Plus: Northern Lights

Physicists Nathan Case & Melanie Windridge discuss the the aurora borealis.

• 20 mins

Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature

Writers Belinda Bauer and Patricia Duncker discuss sex and death in literature

• 36 mins