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Proms Plus Literary - Craig Raine
Tue 5 Aug 2014
The poet Craig Raine discusses the ways in which borrowing and reshaping existing is a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Poetry from WW1
Mon 4 Aug 2014
On the centenary of Britain's entry into the First World War Dame Shirley Williams and...
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Proms Plus Literary - The Taming of the Shrew
Sat 2 Aug 2014
Rana Mitter talks to the actors Janet Suzman and Alexandra Gilbreath about The Taming...
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Proms Plus Literary - John Tavener
Wed 23 Jul 2014
Poet and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts and broadcaster Reverend Richard Coles on...
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Proms Plus Literary - Responses to War
Sun 20 Jul 2014
The Booker prize winning novelist Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy on of...
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Proms Plus Literary - Chinese Culture Today
Sat 19 Jul 2014
Professor Rana Mitter discusses contemporary Chinese culture with a novelist and film...
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Night Waves - Tokyo Story
Wed 18 Dec 2013
50 years ago this month director Yasujiro Ozu died after making 53 films.
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Proms Plus Literary - Proms Poetry Competition
Fri 6 Sep 2013
Ian McMillan, Judith Palmer and Don Paterson introduce the winning entries in this -...
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Proms Plus Literary - Louis MacNeice
Mon 2 Sep 2013
Former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and poet Paul Farley on the work of one of the most...
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Proms Plus Literary - The Sound of Outer Space
Sat 31 Aug 2013
Capturing the sound of dark matter, comets and distant planets is one of the toughest...
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Proms Plus Literary - Billy Budd
Tue 27 Aug 2013
D.H. Lawrence hailed Herman Melville's novella, Billy Budd, a masterpiece when it was...
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Proms Plus Literary - Music & Cinema
Mon 26 Aug 2013
From the very first days of silent film to the contemporary CGI blockbuster, music has...
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Proms Plus Literary - Britten & Poetry
Wed 21 Aug 2013
Benjamin Britten's compositions were inspired by the work of many poets and novelists,...
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Proms Plus Literary - Rudolf Nureyev
Thu 15 Aug 2013
Rudolf Nureyev was one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century. His charisma and a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Sylvia Plath
Thu 8 Aug 2013
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Sylvia Plath and the publication of her a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Romanticism
Sat 3 Aug 2013
Robert Crawford and Fiona Stafford discuss how the Romantic movement linked Beethoven...
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Proms Plus Literary - Michael Tippett
Thu 1 Aug 2013
Rana Mitter introduces an anthology of unexpected readings from the letters and of the...
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Proms Plus Literary - Light Music
Wed 31 Jul 2013
The writers Simon Heffer and Andrew O'Hagan discuss the halcyon days of light music at...
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Proms Plus Literary - John le Carré
Mon 29 Jul 2013
In a special event John le Carré celebrates the 50th anniversary of his Cold War The...
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Proms Plus Literary - Staging Wagner
Sat 27 Jul 2013
Wagner's stage directions are notorious: giant dragons; underwater singing; horses on...
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Proms Plus Literary - Playing Falstaff
Wed 24 Jul 2013
What makes Falstaff, Prince Hal's fat, boastful and cowardly companion so irresistible...
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Proms Plus Literary - Poles in Britain
Wed 17 Jul 2013
Polish is the third most spoken language in the UK, after English and Welsh, and the a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Mahler
Mon 15 Jul 2013
Rana Mitter talks to conductor and music blogger Kenneth Woods to bust some popular...
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Night Waves - Weekly highlights: 7
Thu 10 Jan 2013
In this edition of weekly highlights, David Benedict reviews the New Year Blockbuster...
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Free Thinking 2012 - Martin Goodman
Mon 12 Nov 2012
Martin Goodman, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the perils...
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Proms Plus Literary - Proms Poetry Competition
Mon 10 Sep 2012
Ian McMillan is joined by poet Wendy Cope and actor Juliet Stevenson as he announces...
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Proms Plus Literary - Desert Island
Mon 3 Sep 2012
Which literary works make the most entries into celebrity choices on Radio 4’s is by...
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Proms Plus Literary - Mendelssohn
Sat 1 Sep 2012
Musicologist John Deathridge, introduces an anthology of unexpected readings about...
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Proms Plus Literary - Edward Elgar
Wed 29 Aug 2012
Award-winning film-maker John Bridcut introduces a selection of fascinating and about...
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Proms Plus Literary - Lyrics
Mon 27 Aug 2012
Tell Me on a Sunday lyricist Don Black and singer-songwriter Barb Jungr discuss the as...
