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Proms Extra: Cuneiform 07082017

Irving Finkel and Shahidha Bari on Mesopotamian writing, jokes and boat building specs

• 40 mins

Proms Extra: Sleep and Insomnia

Sports sleep coach Nick Littlehales & novelist A. L. Kennedy discuss sleep & insomnia.

• 22 mins

Proms Extra: Djinn

Elif Shafak and Shahidha Bari tell Ian McMillan why humans need the genie

• 31 mins

Proms Extra: Unfinished Art and Literature

Ian McMillan on the appeal and arts of the Unfinished

• 32 mins

Proms Extra: Ancient Rome

Matthew Sweet talks to Natalie Haynes about the glory that was Rome.

• 39 mins

Proms Extra: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Rana Mitter is joined by Kathleen Burk & Joanna Cohen to discuss the Gettysburg Address.

• 27 mins

Proms Extra: Lenin

Anne McElvoy discusses Lenin with historians Helen Rappaport and Victor Sebestyen.

• 40 mins

Proms Extra: Alan Hollinghurst

Booker Prize winner, Alan Hollinghurst, discusses his new book, The Sparsholt Affair.

• 19 mins

Free Thinking: Washing in public. Sir Peter Hall (1930 - 2017)

Public pools, the "steamie" and the Turkish bath are explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking: Social Conservatism, Kathe Kollwitz and John Ashbery

Art and irony - Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna on the K盲the Kollwitz show in Birmingham

• 45 mins

Free Thinking: Russian Nationalism. Scythians. Hull and Port Talbot on stage.

Anne McElvoy talks to Anne Applebaum about Russian and Ukrainian history.

• 39 mins

Diplomacy: Sir John Jenkins, Gabrielle Rifkind, Michael Burleigh, Dr Beyza Unal.

Philip Dodd and guests explore the art of negotiation and discuss JT Rogers' play Oslo.

• 45 mins

Testosterone. The grey zone. Indian science.

Jahnavi Phalkey, Matt Kimberley, Richard Fortey, Adrian Owen & Cordelia Fine.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking. Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World

The Northern Irish author of Cal talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel Midwinter Break

• 43 mins

Kamila Shamsie: John Kasmin. Dido

Philip Dodd looks at postcards of beggars, the love and scorn of Dido and radicalisation.

• 44 mins

Simon Heffer. Social Conservatism. Sibelius. D'Oyly Carte.

Rana Mitter and guests look back to Edwardian England and at conservative thinking now.

• 43 mins

Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress

Michael Symmons Roberts, Helen Mort and Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull.

• 43 mins

Free Thinking: The importance of networks; the art of dance.

Niall Ferguson argues for a less hierarchical history. Degas' images of the human body.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking - Alan Hollinghurst

The former Booker Prize winner talks to Anne McElvoy and a Proms Extra audience.

• 44 mins

Free Thinking - Blade Runner. Ghost Stories

Matthew Sweet watches a vision of Los Angeles 2049 & visits haunted places in Portsmouth

• 41 mins

Salman Rushdie. Uncertainty

Novelists Salman Rushdie and Lionel Shriver plus Marcus Chown and Rachel Hewitt.

• 44 mins

Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity. Michael Longley

Simon Schama and Devorah Baum discuss Jewishness

• 43 mins

Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

Rana Mitter hosts a debate on relations between Japan, US and China.

• 44 mins

The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?

Dr Foster writer Mike Bartlett on his new play Albion plus the rise of small nations.

• 45 mins

Free Thinking: Landmark: Marnie

Matthew Sweet with an exploration of memory and Winston Graham's novel/Hitchcock's film

• 44 mins

Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

Web guru Tim O'Reilly; the magical worlds of Harry Potter, Philip Pullman, Tove Jansson

• 44 mins

Free Thinking: Young Marx, Yanis Varoufakis and Ruth Lea and Tara Bergin

Yanis Varoufakis with Philip Dodd. Plus the new play from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman

• 44 mins

Forgotten authors, cult fiction and The Prisoner

Director Alex Cox, Christopher Fowler, Clare Walker Gore & Lynda Nead with Matthew Sweet

• 44 mins

Jonathan Swift at 350. Black and White Art. History of British nature writing.

Anne McElvoy on art from monochrome religious painting to a yellow light filled room...

• 43 mins

Benjamin Britten and Radio

David Hendy, Glyn Maxwell, Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker with an audience at Aldeburgh.

• 44 mins