PROMS PLUS LITERARY - Gavin Maxwell
Nature writers Miriam Darlington and Horatio Clare join Rana Mitter to discuss the Scottish author of Ring of Bright Water Gavin Maxwell on his centenary. Readings by Scott Handy. This programme is p...
15 Aug 201422min
Proms Plus Literary - Dylan Thomas
The current National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke and the painter Peter Blake celebrate the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas. The reader is Trystan Gravelle. This programme, is presented by Shah...
11 Aug 201421min
Proms Plus Literary - Tony Harrison
The poet and playwright Tony Harrison talks to Matthew Sweet about his passionate commitment to the classics, poetic language and political writing over the last fifty years. This programme, presented...
7 Aug 201420min
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 Juli 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 Juli 201420min
