A hundred years after it was written, Professor Roy Foster and biographer Michael Holroyd discuss George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the play which inspired My Fair Lady. Show more

Louise Fryer explores music and symbolism in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande with musicologist Richard Langham Smith and poet and French literature specialist Patrick McGuinness. Show more

Louise Fryer talks to guests from New York's Juilliard School of Music and London's Royal Academy of Music about their music colleges and transatlantic collaborations. Show more

Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim talks to Proms Director Roger Wright about his abiding passion for the music of Beethoven. Show more

Chief conductor of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop and Cathy Graham of the British Council discuss the orchestra and Brazilian musical life with Petroc Trelawny. Show more

Live from the Royal College of Music, London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an introduction to Prom 49 - Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard - with excerpts. Show more

Andrew McGregor is joined by musicians from the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester to give some musical insights into Prom 57's programme of Wagner, Berg, Richard Strauss and Ravel. Show more

Presented by Matthew Sweet. Leading mezzo-soprano Christine Rice reveals her literary passions and talks about what she is reading this summer. Show more

Louise Fryer hosts a discussion in which writer and broadcaster Rana Mitter and journalist Shuyun Sun debate the political context of John Adams' first opera Nixon in China. Show more

Live from the Royal College of Music, London, Stephen Johnson explores Mahler's Sixth Symphony with help from members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces Berlioz's Trojans with the help of musicians from tonight's Prom. Together they unpick Berlioz's music and how he tells the story in his opera. Show more

Stephen Johnson and musicians from the Aldeburgh World Orchestra, specially created for the London 2012 Festival, give an illustrated introduction to the music in Prom 21. Show more

BBC correspondent Ed Stourton is joined by a panel of guests to explore the influence of the social and political uprisings of last year's 'Arab Spring' on Arabic literature. Show more

Matthew Rowe explores the music in Prom 31, with live musical examples performed by members of the BBC SSO. Including an introduction to works by James MacMillan and Thea Musgrave. Show more

Presented by Anne McElvoy. Journalist Kate Adie and novelist Aminatta Forna discuss Margaret Atwood's celebrated novel The Handmaid's Tale, 25 years after its publication. Show more

Louise Fryer is joined by composer James MacMillan and Andrew Carwood, director of music at St Paul's Cathedral, to consider the relationship between religion and music. Show more

Proms Plus Intro: Live from the Royal College of Music, London, Andrew McGregor is joined by musicians of the BBC SO and BBC Singers to discuss Schoenberg's cantata Gurrelieder. Show more

Composer Anthony Payne introduces an anthology of unexpected readings about Ralph Vaughan Williams. Show more

Matthew Sweet is joined by Glenda Jackson MP and critic Mark Kermode to celebrate the work of the late Ken Russell, director of films about Delius, Tchaikovsky, Elgar and Strauss. Show more

Poet, essayist and lyricist Clive James and Don Black, Oscar-winning lyricist of Born Free and Tell Me on a Sunday, discuss the great songwriters and their personal favourites. Show more