Night Waves - Women on stage, Wilkie Collins, A.I.
Actor Diana Quick, playwright Jessica Swale and critic Susannah Clapp join Matthew Sweet to discuss the changing role of women, as reflected in the theatre. The works of Henry Moore and Francis Bacon ...
10 Sep 201345min
Night Waves - Booker Prize 2013 & Patrick Leigh Fermor
Rana Mitter assesses the shortlist for this year's Booker prize and speaks to nominee Jhumpa Lahiri. Joanna Bourke and Paul Schulte examines the history of chemical warfare and our ambivalence to it. ...
10 Sep 201345min
Proms Plus Literary - Proms Poetry Competition
Ian McMillan, Judith Palmer and Don Paterson introduce the winning entries in this year's Proms Poetry Competition - and welcome some of the winners on stage to read their poems. The reader is Samanth...
10 Sep 201321min
Proms Plus Literary - Louis MacNeice
Former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and poet Paul Farley on the work of one of the most popular and influential of the Thirties poets, Louis MacNeice, the BBC producer who worked with Benjamin Britten ...
5 Sep 201321min
Proms Plus Literary - The Sound of Outer Space
Capturing the sound of dark matter, comets and distant planets is one of the toughest tasks a film composer can face. Matthew Sweet talks to composers Anna Meredith and Miguel Mera about the ways in w...
5 Sep 201320min
Proms Plus Literary - Billy Budd
D.H. Lawrence hailed Herman Melville's novella, Billy Budd, a masterpiece when it was first published in 1924. Then, in 1951, came Britten's opera, adapted from the book. The writers Philip Hoare and ...
28 Aug 201320min
Proms Plus Literary - Music & Cinema
From the very first days of silent film to the contemporary CGI blockbuster, music has always played a crucial role in cinema, guiding the audience throught the story, keeping their attention, fixing ...
27 Aug 201320min
Proms Plus Literary - Britten & Poetry
Benjamin Britten's compositions were inspired by the work of many poets and novelists, including Wilfred Owen, W.H. Auden, Blake, Shakespeare, Henry James and Thomas Mann. The actor Samuel West, who h...
21 Aug 201321min
