Pianist Lucy Parham talks with Sara Mohr-Pietsch about Schumann's life and works. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses treatments of Bach's music by other writers of music with conductor Andrew Litton and composers Tarik O'Regan and Alissa Firsova. Show more

In an audience discussion, Susan Hitch is joined by composer James MacMillan and religious poet Michael Symmons Roberts to explore the relationship between poetry and the divine. Show more

With Fiona Talkington. Norwegian Chamber Orchestra artistic directors Isabelle van Keulen and Terje Tonnesen discuss their work; composer Bent Sorensen discusses his new piano work. Show more

Ian McMillan is joined by former children's laureate Anne Fine and child psychotherapist Margaret Rustin to discuss interpretations of the Grimm brothers' Hansel and Gretel. Show more

Matthew Sweet explores the Edwardian cultural landscape in 1910, the backdrop to the last night of the Proms 100 years ago. Show more

Kevin Jackson and Nick Dear discuss romantic poet and political hero George Gordon Byron in the opening event of 2010's BBC Proms Literary Festival. Matthew Sweet hosts the debate. Show more

Rana Mitter discusses whether Beethoven embodies the romantic artist with a tortured soul with historian Tim Blanning and director of In Search of Beethoven Phil Grabsky. Show more

In a Proms Plus event at the Royal College of Music, Petroc Trelawny talks to composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim about his work and to conductor David Charles Abell. Show more

To mark 350 years since its inception, Max Hastings and Jenny Uglow join Ian McMillan for performed excerpts and discussion about Samuel Pepys' diary. What is its lasting appeal? Show more

Martin Handley is joined by Brian Newhouse, host of the Minnesota Orchestra's broadcasts, and viola player Sam Bergman as they discuss orchestral life in their home state. Show more

Rana Mitter discusses Friedrich Schiller's great work Ode to Joy, famously set to music by Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony, with Billy Bragg, Peter Oswald and David Constantine. Show more

In a programme recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music, Ian McMillan explores poetry about music. He is joined by poets David Harsent and Jo Shapcott. Show more

Anne McElvoy is joined by Philip Kerr, author of the Berlin Noir trilogy, to discuss writing inspired by the city of Berlin. Show more

Rana Mitter examines Czech genius, from Kafka and Capek to Hrabal and beyond. Rana is joined by guests Rajendra Chitnis and James Hawes to explode the stereotypes. Show more

Louise Fryer discusses The Mastersingers of Nuremberg with Patrick Carnegy, author of Wagner and the Art of the Theatre, and Anthony Negus of WNO's music staff.

Louise Fryer talks to opera specialists Alexandra Wilson and Roger Parker about the position of Simon Boccanegra in Verdi's career, placing the opera in its contemporary context. Show more

Petroc Trelawny talks to author and broadcaster John Suchet, a passionate devotee of Beethoven, who has written five books about the great composer. Show more

Russian specialist Rosamund Bartlett and nature writer William Fiennes discuss the life and work of Anton Chekhov, 150 years after his birth. Susan Hitch presents. Show more

Historian Tom Holland and novelist Ben Markovits join presenter Matthew Sweet to explore Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - the poem which overnight thrust Lord Byron into stardom. Show more