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  1. Revisit: Shakespeare's Bookshelf

    Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books Shakespeare would have read.

  2. Religion and Politics, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Fawzia Koofi

    With Anne McElvoy. We discuss the fraught relationship between religion and politics.

  3. Rehabilitating the Rev John Trusler

    Sophie Coulombeau on the life of a C18 cleric and entrepreneur & the idea of failure

  4. Rattigan, Arab world, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mark Malloch-Brown

    Trevor Nunn on reviving Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path. What does it mean to be an...

  5. Radio 3 Proms Poetry Competition 2017

    2017 Proms Poetry Competition: Ian McMillan is joined by Jason Polley & Judith Palmer...

  6. R3Arts: Play Schubert for Me - Episode 5

    Jenny Uglow concentrates on Schubert and Scotland exploring his settings of Ossian and...

  7. R3 Arts: Night Waves: Nadine Gordimer

    Anne McElvoy talks to Nobel laureate and Booker Prize winner Nadine Gordimer.

  8. Proms Poetry Competition - 08 September 15

    The winning entries in this year's Proms Poetry Competition

  9. Proms Poetry Competition

    Judges Ian McMillan, Jackie Kay & Judith Palmer are joined on stage by the winning poets.

  10. Proms Poetry Competition

    The poet Daljit Nagra and Radio 3 presenter Ian McMillan introduce the winning entries...

  11. Proms Plus: Witches & Witchcraft

    Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Dr Thomas Waters in discussion with Dr Fern Riddell

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

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

  13. Proms Plus: Tragedy

    Tragedy ancient and modern with Clare Pollard and Jennifer Wallace

  14. Proms Plus: The Weeping Prophet and Visions of Chaos

    With the novelist Salley Vickers and literary historian Joe Moshenska

  15. Proms Plus: The Wanderer

    Lauren Elkin & Seán Williams discuss why walking is an inspiration for writers.

  16. Proms Plus: Swans

    Sacha Dench & Sarah Crompton discuss swans in the natural world & on the ballet stage.

  17. Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania

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

  18. Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature

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

  19. Proms Plus: Sacrifice

    Why the bible story of Jephtha caused more controversy than your average burnt offering.

  20. Proms Plus: Russian Folktales

    Marina Warner & Sophie Anderson enter a world of walking huts and fish that grant wishes

  21. Proms Plus: Retelling Troy

    Bettany Hughes and Alex Clark discuss feminist retellings of The Iliad.

  22. Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry

    Faithful but dull or unfaithful and interesting that is the question

  23. Proms Plus: Northern Lights

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

  24. Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark

    The legends and landscapes that inspire composers from Finland and Russia

  25. Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy

    Nina Simone’s achievement with Kevin Legendre, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Zena Edwards

  26. Proms Plus: Music and Health

    Naomi Paxton discusses the latest science and clinical practice

  27. Proms Plus: Mountains

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

  28. Proms Plus: Moon Landing

    Richard Wiseman and Melanie Vandenbrouck discuss the impact of the first Moon landing

  29. Proms Plus: London in Fact & Fiction

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

  30. Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes

    Shahidha Bari and Nick Groom on invented monks, fake Shakespeare and a "discovered" diary

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