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Proms Plus: Kipling's Jungle Books
Anindya Raychaudhuri discusses Kipling's Jungle Books with children's novelist Frances Hardinge and academic Sue Walsh, recorded in front of an audie…
6 years, 8 months ago
Proms Plus: Russian Folktales
Enter a world where huts walk on chicken legs, fish grant wishes and Baba Yaga sharpens her iron tooth with writers Marina Warner and Sophie Anderson…
6 years, 8 months ago
Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan
New research on slavery with historians Christienna Fryar, Kevin Waite, and Andrea Livesey. A Different Drummer was the debut novel of Kelley - firs…
6 years, 8 months ago
Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun
Historians Lee Jackson and Kathryn Hughes discuss what kept Queen Victoria's subjects amused indoors and outdoors. Presenter: Rana Mitter
Kathryn Hugh…
6 years, 8 months ago
Proms Plus: Literary Hoaxes
Berlioz originally presented an early version of The Shepherd's Farewell - part of The Childhood of Christ, at this year's Proms - as the work of ‘Du…
6 years, 8 months ago
Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction
From Napoleon impersonators, caricature and ballads, to a play which asks what if he didn't die in exile - presenter Anne McElvoy is joined by actor …
6 years, 8 months ago
Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.
Recorded as his film Peterloo opened in cinemas and repeated now to mark this week's 200th anniversary of the Manchester massacre
6 years, 8 months ago
Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience
The award-winning author of young adult novels, Patrice Lawrence and historian Emma Butcher - who specialises in 19th century child soldiers - discu…
6 years, 8 months ago
Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky’s letters to his brothers and to his nephew - to whom his final Symphony, the Pathétique, is dedicated - are fascinating insights into th…
6 years, 8 months ago
Proms Plus: Edgar Allan Poe
Novelist and Gothic literature specialist Elizabeth Lowry joins the writer, documentarist, film-maker and psycho-geographer Iain Sinclair to discuss …
6 years, 8 months ago