Night Waves - Simon Schama, Beeban Kidron, End of Human Rights
Historian Simon Schama joins Philip Dodd to discuss his book and TV series The Story of the Jews. Stephen Hopgood and Clive Stafford Smith debate the pros and cons of the human rights industry, and wh...
17 Sep 201345min
Night Waves - John le Carre special
In a special event recorded in front of an audience at London's Royal College of Music Anne McElvoy talks to John le Carré to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his groundbreaking Cold War espionage no...
13 Sep 201343min
Night Waves - Richard Dawkins & Tacita Dean
Philip Dodd is joined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins speaking about his new memoir - An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist. Plus Tacita Dean speaks about about her new film 'JG'...
12 Sep 201345min
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
