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A special edition for Black History Month celebrating the lives and music of black women. Michael Berkeley revisits some of the many inspiring guests…
2 years, 8 months ago
Fay Dowker
Professor Fay Dowker is a theoretical physicist fascinated by space and time. She was obsessed with maths from a young age and went on to study at Ca…
2 years, 9 months ago
Olivia Harrison
Olivia Harrison is a prizewinning film producer and charity director. Last year she published Came the Lightening, a poignant collection of twenty po…
2 years, 9 months ago
Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan is a historian who likes to take on big ideas, sweeping across many centuries and national boundaries.
In his acclaimed book The Silk…
2 years, 9 months ago
Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens has won two Grammy awards for her folk music albums, and a Pulitzer Prize for her opera, Omar, proving that she’s a musician who can…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller is a difficult artist to pin down. He’s won the Turner Prize and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, but you’re just as likely …
2 years, 10 months ago
Raynor Winn
Raynor Winn is a writer whose first book, The Salt Path, followed the remarkable 630-mile journey she and her husband Moth made around the South West…
2 years, 10 months ago
György Ligeti
2023 marks the centenary of the composer György Ligeti's birth, and in this programme, first broadcast in 1997, he joined Michael Berkeley to share s…
2 years, 10 months ago
Isabella Tree
Isabella Tree is an author and travel writer. Her award-winning book Wilding: the Return of Nature to a British Farm, describes how she and her conse…
3 years ago
Alexander Polzin
Alexander Polzin is a German sculptor, painter, costume and set designer. He began his career as a stonemason, but is now well known for his collabor…
3 years ago