Proms Extra: Unfinished Art and Literature
Michelangelo and Coleridge, Dickens and the Impressionists, all left work that they or others deemed unfinished, interrupted or incomplete. In front of a BBC R3 Proms audience at Imperial Collge in L...
23 Aug 201732min
Proms Extra: Djinn
Ian McMillan and a pre-Proms audience at Imperial College London have the smoky essence of Djinn conjured for them by literary scholar and New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari and novelist Elif Shafak...
18 Aug 201731min
Proms Extra: Sleep and Insomnia
Nick Littlehales, sports sleep coach and chair of the British Sleep Council, talks with novelist A. L. Kennedy about sleep and insomnia. The event is hosted by Rana Mitter.
16 Aug 201722min
Proms Extra: Cuneiform 07082017
A pre-Prom audience at Imperial College in London listens in as Shaidha Bari talks to Assyriologist Irving Finkel about cuneiform; how the script survived, what it tells us about life in the cities of...
8 Aug 201740min
Proms Extra: Ella Fitzgerald
Kevin LeGendre and Claire Martin discuss Ella Fitzgerald
7 Aug 201721min
Proms Extra: Sentimentality
Anne McElvoy is joined by New Generation Thinker Seán Williams and writer Rachel Hewitt to consider Friedrich Schiller’s essay On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry and what it means to be sentimental in th...
3 Aug 201720min
Proms Extra: Happiness
Will Abberley asks novelist Charlotte Mendelson why writers seem reluctant to engage with happiness and why so much literature is full of unhappy people; they are joined by psychologist and broadcaste...
2 Aug 201720min
Proms Extra: Sea Journeys and Voyages
Rana Mitter is joined by Sir Barry Cunliffe and Professor Edith Hall to consider epic sea journeys in history.
1 Aug 201721min
