Podcast Episodes

Tamsin Edwards

In a special edition of Private Passions for COP26, Michael Berkeley talks to Dr Tamsin Edwards about her career as a climate scientist and her lifel…

4 years, 8 months ago

Matthew Walker

In this special programme for Radio 3’s Twilight Season, Michael Berkeley’s guest is the sleep scientist Professor Matthew Walker.

So many of us have …

4 years, 8 months ago

Rory Stewart

Diplomat, Soldier, Explorer, Politician, Academic – Rory Stewart defies easy labels. By his own admission, his identity is complicated: he describes …

4 years, 8 months ago

Mark Solms

Mark Solms is a neuroscientist who has spent his whole career investigating the mysteries of consciousness. His research throws light on some of the …

4 years, 8 months ago

Esther Freud

Esther Freud talks to Michael Berkeley about her extraordinary childhood and her passion for story telling in both words and music.

After attending d…

4 years, 9 months ago

Walter Iuzzolino

Walter Iuzzolino is an Italian television presenter who has become well known on our screens thanks to Walter Presents, Channel 4’s free streaming se…

4 years, 9 months ago

Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Francesca Stavrakopoulou is fascinated by the Bible, and she’s a leading scholar of those ancient texts which have so profoundly shaped how we see th…

4 years, 9 months ago

Helena Attlee

The writer Helena Attlee transports Michael Berkeley to the sounds, smells, tastes and music of Italy.

Helena has spent most of her life immersed in …

4 years, 10 months ago

Peggy Seeger

Peggy Seeger’s extraordinary musical career spans six and a half decades. Since the age of 17 she has been writing, performing and recording songs pr…

4 years, 10 months ago

Michio Kaku

Michael Berkeley’s guest is the theoretical physicist Dr Michio Kaku - without doubt the only guest ever to have built a particle accelerator in thei…

4 years, 11 months ago