Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction
From Napoleon impersonators, caricature and ballads, to a play which asks what if he didn't die in exile - presenter Anne McElvoy is joined by actor and director Kathryn Hunter, biographer Michael Bro...
15 Aug 201942min
Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.
Recorded as his film Peterloo opened in cinemas and repeated now to mark this week's 200th anniversary of the Manchester massacre
14 Aug 201945min
Proms Plus: Childhood, innocence and experience
The award-winning author of young adult novels, Patrice Lawrence and historian Emma Butcher - who specialises in 19th century child soldiers - discuss the construction of childhood past and present w...
13 Aug 201936min
Proms Plus: 'Queering' Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky’s letters to his brothers and to his nephew - to whom his final Symphony, the Pathétique, is dedicated - are fascinating insights into the composer’s turbulent life and work. Though his se...
12 Aug 201925min
Proms Plus: Edgar Allan Poe
Novelist and Gothic literature specialist Elizabeth Lowry joins the writer, documentarist, film-maker and psycho-geographer Iain Sinclair to discuss the dark glitter of the Gothic and the work of the ...
8 Aug 201921min
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 modern with the award-winning poet Clare Pollard, ...
8 Aug 201933min
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 paraglider. Drawing on her experience, the ‘Human S...
5 Aug 201921min
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 in the Academy Awards. Best Picture that year went t...
5 Aug 201945min
