BBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas

Proms Plus: British Countryside real & imagined

Writer Melissa Harrison, archaeologist Francis Pryor on British countryside & rural life

Tim Birkhead and Helen Macdonald on humanity's long relationship with birds

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

Sarah Dillon and novelist Richard Beard on narrative voices in literature

Prof. Tim Whitmarsh & dance critic Judith Mackrell discuss Longus's Daphnis & Chloe.

Booker Prize winner, Alan Hollinghurst, discusses his new book, The Sparsholt Affair.

Anne McElvoy discusses Lenin with historians Helen Rappaport and Victor Sebestyen.

Rana Mitter is joined by Kathleen Burk & Joanna Cohen to discuss the Gettysburg Address.

Matthew Sweet talks to Natalie Haynes about the glory that was Rome.

Ian McMillan on the appeal and arts of the Unfinished