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With Shahidha Bari and guests
Philosophical tennis, hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx.
Matthew Sweet takes a walk around Eleanor Marx's old neighborhood.
Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard
Anne McElvoy and sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld, artist Dale Harding, writer Stella Tillyard
Howard Jacobson
Writer Howard Jacobson with a keynote lecture on why we need the novel.
Proms Plus: Daphnis & Chloe
Prof. Tim Whitmarsh & dance critic Judith Mackrell discuss Longus's Daphnis & Chloe.
Proms Plus 鈥 exploring the narrative voice in literature
Sarah Dillon and novelist Richard Beard on narrative voices in literature
Proms Plus: The Wanderer
Lauren Elkin & Se谩n Williams discuss why walking is an inspiration for writers.
Proms Plus: Birds and Humans
Tim Birkhead and Helen Macdonald on humanity's long relationship with birds
Proms Plus: British Countryside real & imagined
Writer Melissa Harrison, archaeologist Francis Pryor on British countryside & rural life
Proms Plus: Funny Fiction
Inspired by Beethoven's musical jokes, Meg Rosoff selects an array of comic fiction
Proms Plus: Mountains
Abbie Garrington, Dan Richards discuss how mountains & wild landscapes inspire creativity
Proms Plus: London in Fact & Fiction
Novelists John Lanchester & Diana Evans discuss depicting London in their fiction.
Proms Plus: Folklore of Britain and Ireland
Poets Gillian Clarke and Peter Mackay discuss the folktales of the islands of the UK
Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry
Faithful but dull or unfaithful and interesting that is the question
Proms Plus: The Weeping Prophet and Visions of Chaos
With the novelist Salley Vickers and literary historian Joe Moshenska
Proms Plus: Ecstatic States
Christopher Harding, philosopher Mark Vernon & Hetta Howes discuss ecstatic states.
Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania
Historians Laura Rowe and Saul David on the controversial torpedoing of an ocean liner
Landmark Jaws: Sharks and Whales
Matthew Sweet talks Jaws with shark expert Gareth Fraser and novelist Will Self.
Proms Plus: FAIRY TALES
with Kerry Andrew and Katherine Langrish
Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Culture
Writers Louise Doughty and Damian Le Bas discuss Gypsy, Roma & Traveller culture.
Proms Plus: W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety
Writers Glyn Maxwell and Polly Clark discuss Auden鈥檚 The Age of Anxiety
Proms Plus: Northern Lights
Physicists Nathan Case & Melanie Windridge discuss the the aurora borealis.
Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature
Writers Belinda Bauer and Patricia Duncker discuss sex and death in literature
Design
Including a report from the London Design Biennale and film historian Peter Biskind.
Women Finding a Voice
Deborah Frances-White host of The Guilty Feminist pod, Natalie Haynes, Mich猫le Roberts
Sebastian Faulks
The author of Birdsong in conversation with Anne McElvoy about his new novel Paris Echo.
Proms Plus: Retelling Troy
Bettany Hughes and Alex Clark discuss feminist retellings of The Iliad.
What St Augustine teaches us
Anne McElvoy and guests explore ideas of tyranny, martyrdom, sin and grace
What Camus and Claude L茅vi-Strauss teach us
Being an outsider and learning to think like an outsider
What Nietzsche teaches us
Biographer Sue Prideaux and others discuss Nietzsche's relevance today
The Goodies
Matthew Sweet meets the trio behind the '70s and early '80s TV comedy show