Episodes to download
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Proms Lecture - Daniel Levitin: Music and Our Brains
Wed 22 Jul 2020
Daniel Levitin explores new thinking about the relationship between music and memory
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New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality
Thu 5 Mar 2020
Hetta Howes learns how Sylvia Xueni Pan and Sarah Ellis are pushing the VR envelope
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New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories
Fri 13 Dec 2019
A look at changing attitudes about sportswomen, once dubbed unfeminine, & LGBT athletes
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New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019
Sat 16 Nov 2019
Hetta Howes talks to winners of this year's AHRC Research in Film Awards
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New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany
Fri 1 Nov 2019
Forgotten stories from cultural diplomats, British army bases and Berlin dancefloors
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New Thinking: Places of Poetry & The Colonial Countryside Project
Thu 3 Oct 2019
Incl a Welsh castle w/ more Mughal Art than India's National Museum - a new UK poem map
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New Thinking: Fashion, AI and Sustainability
Mon 16 Sep 2019
The Future Fashion Factory and changing our attitude to #fastfashion. Plus AI and colours
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Proms Plus: Witches & Witchcraft
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Dr Thomas Waters in discussion with Dr Fern Riddell
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Proms Plus: Letters
Wed 11 Sep 2019
Ruth Ware and Shaun Usher discuss letter writing in the 21st century
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Proms Plus: Sacrifice
Mon 2 Sep 2019
Why the bible story of Jephtha caused more controversy than your average burnt offering.
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Proms Plus: Landscape
Tue 27 Aug 2019
Horatio Clare and Testament discuss landscape’s power to inspire writers
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Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Nina Simone’s achievement with Kevin Legendre, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Zena Edwards
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Proms Plus: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Seán Williams explores Beethoven’s 9th and Schiller’s accompanying text, An Ode to Joy.
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Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Anindya Raychaudhuri discusses Kipling's Jungle Books with Frances Hardinge and Sue Walsh
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Proms Plus: Russian Folktales
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Marina Warner & Sophie Anderson enter a world of walking huts and fish that grant wishes
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Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun
Fri 16 Aug 2019
Historians Kathryn Hughes & Lee Jackson discuss 19th century entertainment.
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Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes
Fri 16 Aug 2019
Shahidha Bari and Nick Groom on invented monks, fake Shakespeare and a "discovered" diary
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Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience
Tue 13 Aug 2019
Books for children and children in books from Romanticism via the Victorians to now.
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Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky
Mon 12 Aug 2019
Shahidha Bari and Rolf Hind discuss Tchaikovsky’s letters, with readings from Tom Stuart
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Proms Plus: Tragedy
Thu 8 Aug 2019
Tragedy ancient and modern with Clare Pollard and Jennifer Wallace
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Proms Plus: Swans
Mon 5 Aug 2019
Sacha Dench & Sarah Crompton discuss swans in the natural world & on the ballet stage.
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Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark
Sun 4 Aug 2019
The legends and landscapes that inspire composers from Finland and Russia
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Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer
Fri 26 Jul 2019
Poets Rachael Allen & Jacob Polley join Preti Taneja to reflect on the summer of 1969.
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Proms Plus: Music and Health
Wed 24 Jul 2019
Naomi Paxton discusses the latest science and clinical practice
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Proms Plus: Moon Landing
Mon 22 Jul 2019
Richard Wiseman and Melanie Vandenbrouck discuss the impact of the first Moon landing
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New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language
Wed 17 Jul 2019
From Juliet's uncertainty, to finding a phrase for descending the stairs
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New Thinking: City Talk
Wed 17 Jul 2019
Mapping the accents of Greater Manchester with a camper van and a laptop
