Proms Plus Literary - Craig Raine
The poet Craig Raine discusses the ways in which borrowing and reshaping existing phrases is a feature of music and literature and why writers adopt a magpie approach to language. This programme, pres...
5 Aug 201419min
Proms Plus Literary - Poetry from WW1
On the centenary of Britain's entry into the First World War Dame Shirley Williams and Colonel Tim Collins introduce an anthology of poetry from the war. Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal ...
4 Aug 201444min
Proms Plus Literary - The Taming of the Shrew
Rana Mitter talks to the actors Janet Suzman and Alexandra Gilbreath about Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Both women have played the part of Kate -- both in acclaimed RSC productions and both ...
2 Aug 201421min
Proms Plus Literary - John Tavener
Poet and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts and broadcaster Reverend Richard Coles on the literature which inspired John Tavener from George Herbert and John Donne to Blake. This programme presented ...
23 Jul 201420min
Proms Plus Literary - Responses to War
The Booker prize winning novelist Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy on the subject of the First World War, and the poet Owen Sheers discuss writers', musicians' and painters' responses to...
21 Jul 201420min
Proms Plus Literary - Chinese Culture Today
Professor Rana Mitter discusses contemporary Chinese culture with a novelist and film maker Xiaolu Guo and Dr Katie Hill, an expert on Chinese Modern Art. The event was recorded in front of an audienc...
19 Jul 201419min
Free Thinking - Decision Making in the Money Markets
Does emotion or reason dictate the financial markets? Anne McElvoy is joined by Frances Hudson, Global Thematic Strategist at Standard Life Investments; Daniel Ben Ami, financial journalist, author of...
17 Jul 201443min
Free Thinking - Politics and writing in Kenya
Billy Kahora, one of the writers nominated for this year's Caine Prize for African writing joins Philip Dodd to reflect on the way artists in Kenya respond to the political and religious unrest in the...
16 Jul 201443min
