Podcast Episodes

Jonathan Romain

Rabbi, writer and broadcaster Jonathan Romain is minister of Maidenhead Synagogue and one of Britain's leading rabbis in Reform Judaism. He’s the aut…

3 years, 7 months ago

Roma Agrawal

The structural engineer and author Roma Agrawal tells Michael Berkeley about her passions for tall buildings, bridges, concrete and Indian classical …

3 years, 7 months ago

Adam Rutherford

The geneticist and broadcaster Adam Rutherford tells Michael Berkeley how his passion for music allows him to escape the rigours of science and enjoy…

3 years, 7 months ago

Simon Warrack

Simon Warrack travels the world restoring the most sacred and beautiful buildings. As a stonemason he’s worked on the Rose Window of Canterbury Cathe…

3 years, 7 months ago

Julia Blackburn

The writer Julia Blackburn talks to Michael Berkeley about how music helped her through her traumatic childhood and about the joy of late-flowering l…

3 years, 7 months ago

Stuart MacBride

Stuart MacBride was born in Dumbarton and raised in Aberdeen; abandoning his studies to become an architect, he went to work on the oil rigs, scrubbi…

3 years, 8 months ago

William Kentridge

It’s hard to think of an artist with a more striking and ambitious range than William Kentridge; his work spans etching, drawing, collage, huge tapes…

3 years, 8 months ago

Arifa Akbar

Arifa Akbar tells Michael Berkeley about her nocturnal life as a theatre critic and her desire to tell the story of her sister's death from tuberculo…

3 years, 8 months ago

Ronnie Archer-Morgan

Ronnie Archer-Morgan, from The Antiques Roadshow, tells Michael Berkeley about his tumultuous life and the music that has accompanied it.

Ronnie had a…

3 years, 9 months ago

Jules Montague

Jules Montague trained as a doctor in Dublin before moving to London and becoming a consultant neurologist, specialising in treating people with deme…

3 years, 9 months ago