Podcast Episodes

Gwen Adshead

The Broadmoor psychiatrist and psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead shares her passion for choral music with Michael Berkeley.

When people ask Gwen Adshead…

3 years, 9 months ago

James Runcie

Sometimes a musical work of art is so perfect, so magnificent, that it’s almost impossible to remember the work that’s gone on, behind the scenes, fr…

3 years, 9 months ago

Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell started writing for children at the age of only 21; in little more than a decade she’s become one of our leading children’s writers…

4 years ago

Francesca Simon

Anyone who’s spent any time with children in the last thirty years will know Horrid Henry and his brother, Perfect Peter. They’re the creations of Fr…

4 years, 1 month ago

Anne Glenconner

In this special programme for the Queen’s platinum jubilee, Michael Berkeley’s guest is the author and former lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret, A…

4 years, 1 month ago

Jarvis Cocker

In a wide-ranging and engaging interview, musician Jarvis Cocker tells Michael Berkeley about the role classical music plays in his life and relation…

4 years, 1 month ago

Kat Arney

The science writer and broadcaster Dr Kat Arney shares with Michael Berkeley her passion for the harp and her revelatory new research into the causes…

4 years, 1 month ago

Waheed Arian

As we’ve watched the war in Ukraine unfold, we’ve seen huge crowds of people queuing at the border, dragging small suitcases, carrying babies and chi…

4 years, 1 month ago

Osman Yousefzada

The fashion designer and artist Osman Yousefzada tells Michael Berkeley about his childhood in a strictly religious Pashtun community in Birmingham. …

4 years, 2 months ago

Clare Marx

Looking ahead to International Women’s Day, this is a second chance to hear Michael Berkeley’s interview with the trailblazing surgeon Dame Clare Mar…

4 years, 2 months ago