Sebastian Faulks
The author of Birdsong talks to Anne McElvoy in one of the first conversations about his new novel. Sebastian Faulks discusses depicting France past and present from World War I to Algeria and immigra...
13 Sep 201844min
Women Finding a Voice
Deborah Frances-White host of podcast The Guilty Feminist joins Catherine Fletcher. Novelist Michèle Roberts reviews a portrait of artist Louise Bourgeois woven from conversations, and comedian and cl...
12 Sep 201845min
Design
A silent room and a design to encourage disobedience are amongst the exhibits that Matthew Sweet and Laurence Scott visit at the London Design Biennale as they consider the role of Design in the week ...
11 Sep 201845min
Proms Plus: Sex and Death in Literature
The Booker long-listed crime writer, Belinda Bauer and the novelist, Patricia Duncker, join Matthew Sweet to discuss sex and death in literature. Embracing everything from Emily Bronte to Margaret A...
3 Sep 201836min
Proms Plus: Northern Lights
The appearance of the aurora borealis has entranced and intrigued people from cultures across the world, inspiring art, music and stories, including tonight's Proms world premiere of Iain Bell's Auror...
29 Aug 201820min
Proms Plus: W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety
W H Auden called his longest poem, The Age of Anxiety a baroque eclogue - a description which hints at its rich complexity. Its account of a meeting between four strangers in a New York bar inspired ...
29 Aug 201831min
Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Culture
Novelist Louise Doughty, author of Apple Tree Yard and Stone Cradle, talks to writer Damian Le Bas, author of The Stopping Places, about their shared Romany heritage and the culture of the wider Roman...
23 Aug 201837min
Proms Plus: FAIRY TALES
Fairy tales are not just familiar stories told to children but are also a means of conveying dark truths about morality and behaviour to adults. There are similarities between stories shared in diffe...
21 Aug 201831min
