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Proms Plus: Tragedy
One way that people deal with grief and suffering is to turn to tragic stories for example and catharsis. Rana Mitter discusses tragedy, ancient and…
6 years, 8 months ago
Proms Plus: Swans
In 2017, Sacha Dench, founder of Conservation Without Borders, flew the 4,000 mile migration route of Bewick swans from Arctic Russia to the UK in a …
6 years, 8 months ago
Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking
Since 1983, Spike Lee's production company has produced over 35 films. His 1989 film Do The Right Thing was nominated for Best Original Screenplay i…
6 years, 8 months ago
Proms Plus: Nordic Summers Light and Dark
Taking their inspiration from the Russian and Finnish composers of 2019 Prom 22, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and an audience at Imperial College Lon…
6 years, 8 months ago
Proms Plus: 1969 The Sound of a Summer
1996 was the summer of Woodstock, the moon landing, the Beatles’ Abbey Road and a gathering of beat poets at the Royal Albert Hall. Author and New G…
6 years, 8 months ago
Proms Plus: Music and Health
Naomi Paxton discusses the latest science and clinical practice with psychologist Dr Daisy Fancourt, a psychologist and epidemiologist who studies th…
6 years, 9 months ago
Proms Plus: Moon Landing
As the Proms marks the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landings, Professor Richard Wiseman, author of ‘Shoot For The Moon’ and Melanie Vandenbrouc…
6 years, 9 months ago
Book Parts and Difficulty
Matthew Sweet looks at book frontispieces, dust jackets, footnotes, indexes and marginalia with Dennis Duncan, and explores a research project invest…
6 years, 9 months ago
New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
Anne McElvoy and new ways of understanding post-war Germany and Austria through history, film and literature with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam…
6 years, 9 months ago
New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations
Hetta Howes learns that the absence of dental floss in the Neolithic era has left archaeologists with invaluable information about how our ancestors …
6 years, 9 months ago