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Proms Plus Literary - Ken Russell
Thu 23 Aug 2012
Glenda Jackson MP and film critic Mark Kermode celebrate the work of the late Ken the...
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Proms Plus Literary - Russian Classics
Tue 21 Aug 2012
Novelist Pat Barker and Revd Giles Fraser discuss with presenter Ian McMillan what can...
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Proms Plus Literary: Vaughan Williams
Thu 16 Aug 2012
Composer Anthony Payne introduces readings about and by one of the great composers in...
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Proms Plus Literary - Edward Gardner
Wed 8 Aug 2012
The Music Director of the ENO Edward Gardner, who will be conducting a concert of in...
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Proms Plus Literary - The Handmaid's Tale
Mon 6 Aug 2012
Veteran war reporter Kate Adie and novelist Aminatta Forna discuss Margaret Atwood's a...
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Proms Plus Literary - Sunset Song
Fri 3 Aug 2012
Poet Jackie Kay and novelist Ali Smith discuss one of the great Scottish novels, Song...
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Proms Plus Literary - David Hill
Mon 30 Jul 2012
Conductor David Hill continues the series in which leading musicians from this Proms...
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Proms Plus Literary - Arab Spring
Tue 24 Jul 2012
BBC correspondent Ed Stourton is joined by Ahdaf Soueif & Karl Sharro to explore the...
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Proms Plus Literary - Jane Glover
Wed 18 Jul 2012
Conductor Jane Glover begins a new four part series in which musicians from this Proms...
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Proms Plus Literary - Christine Rice
Wed 18 Jul 2012
Christine Rice with presenter Matthew Sweet, conclude the series of events in which of...
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Proms Plus Literary - Pygmalion
Sat 14 Jul 2012
George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, the inspiration for My Fair Lady, is discussed...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 8
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Romance proved difficult for Schubert - he stood barely five feet tall, with a long a...
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R3Arts: Play Schubert for Me - Episode 5
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Jenny Uglow concentrates on Schubert and Scotland exploring his settings of Ossian and...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 7
Fri 30 Mar 2012
During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional.
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 6
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Night Waves' Philip Dodd reflects on the paradoxes on snow in music and literature and...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 4
Wed 28 Mar 2012
The novelist Clare Morrall imagines what may have happened during one of Schubert’s...
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Play Schubert for Me - Episode 3
Wed 28 Mar 2012
Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry.
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Play Schubert For Me - Episode 2
Mon 26 Mar 2012
Attempts to explain both Schubert's achievements and mood swings through theory, often...
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Play Schubert For Me - Episode 1
Mon 26 Mar 2012
The journey Sir George Grove made to Vienna by train was one of vision and passion.
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Night Waves - Opium & TV Dramas
Tue 13 Mar 2012
Matthew Sweet on 'Opium: Reality's Dark Dream. ' Corruption and pain relief, war and in...
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Elif Safak at Free Thinking Festival
Wed 15 Feb 2012
The Turkish novelist Elif Shafak talks to Rana Mitter in an interview recorded at last...
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Lawrence Durrell, Kate Grenville, Cullen Murphy, Gene Sharp
Tue 7 Feb 2012
Philip Dodd talks to Cullen Murphy about his new book, God's Jury. Matthew Sweet takes...
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The Trial of Ubu, David Scheffer & The Hajj
Wed 1 Feb 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to David Scheffer, architect of the Modern War Crimes Tribunal and...
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Coriolanus,WG Sebald,Protests, Environmental Politics
Wed 25 Jan 2012
Matthew Sweet talks to philosopher Roger Scruton about environmental politics and also...
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Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens
Mon 19 Dec 2011
In a special edition of the podcast, we mark the passing of both Christopher Hitchens...
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David Attenborough, golden age of science, Soviet art
Tue 1 Nov 2011
David Attenborough talks to Matthew Sweet about his new TV series Frozen Planet.
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Cultivating Civility, the Village, the Lives of Novelists
Tue 25 Oct 2011
Philip Dodd looks at the state of English civility. Anne McElvoy delves into the world...
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Robert Trivers, Quentin Blake, Carol Ann Duffy
Mon 17 Oct 2011
This week in the face of a deepening economic crisis Rana Mitter asks should we save...
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Woody Allen, Charles Dickens biography and what it means to be human
Tue 11 Oct 2011
Juiet Gardner talks to Woody Allen about his latest comedy Midnight in Paris.
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Robert Harris, King Lear, The British Empire
Mon 3 Oct 2011
Anne McElvoy talks to writer Robert Harris about his new novel set amidst the current...
