Arts & Ideas Episodes Available now
Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Culture
Writers Louise Doughty and Damian Le Bas discuss Gypsy, Roma & Traveller culture.
Proms Plus: FAIRY TALES
with Kerry Andrew and Katherine Langrish
Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania
Historians Laura Rowe and Saul David on the controversial torpedoing of an ocean liner
Proms Plus: Ecstatic States
Christopher Harding, philosopher Mark Vernon & Hetta Howes discuss ecstatic states.
Proms Plus: The Weeping Prophet and Visions of Chaos
With the novelist Salley Vickers and literary historian Joe Moshenska
Proms Plus: Re-working a Classic in Poetry
Faithful but dull or unfaithful and interesting that is the question
Proms Plus: Folklore of Britain and Ireland
Poets Gillian Clarke and Peter Mackay discuss the folktales of the islands of the UK
Proms Plus: London in Fact & Fiction
Novelists John Lanchester & Diana Evans discuss depicting London in their fiction.
Proms Plus: Mountains
Abbie Garrington, Dan Richards discuss how mountains & wild landscapes inspire creativity
Proms Plus: Funny Fiction
Inspired by Beethoven's musical jokes, Meg Rosoff selects an array of comic fiction
