Podcast Episodes

James Shapiro

James Shapiro is one of the world’s great Shakespeare scholars. A professor of English at Columbia University in New York, he is the author of seven …

5 years, 2 months ago

Kieran Hodgson

Kieran Hodgson tells Michael Berkeley how he turned his lifelong obsession with Mahler, and his own struggle to write a symphony, into comedy gold.

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5 years, 3 months ago

Sister Teresa Keswick

Some 40 years ago, Teresa Keswick exchanged her career as a London lawyer for life as a nun in an enclosed and largely silent Carmelite monastery in …

5 years, 3 months ago

Bill Browder

Bill Browder describes himself as Vladimir Putin’s number one enemy. When Putin came to power, Browder was the most successful international business…

5 years, 3 months ago

James Rebanks

The shepherd and writer James Rebanks shares his favourite music with Michael Berkeley and describes how he is restoring the balance of nature on his…

5 years, 3 months ago

Sean Scully

Dublin-born artist Sean Scully is known worldwide for his abstract paintings of blocks and stripes of bold colour. You can see his work in the Tate, …

5 years, 3 months ago

Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird was only fifteen when she had her first collection of poems published; she’s been writing since she was eight, hiding in the corner beh…

5 years, 4 months ago

Tim Harford

The economist Tim Harford shares his passion for contemporary classical music with Michael Berkeley.

Tim Harford has for many years been the Undercove…

5 years, 4 months ago

Rachel Clarke

Rachel Clarke is a doctor who specialises in palliative care. She’s now on the Covid frontline; in March 2020 she moved to Horton General Hospital ou…

5 years, 5 months ago

Jamie Parker

Jamie Parker shot to fame as one of Alan Bennett’s original History Boys – he was the one who played the piano. In this week’s Private Passions he te…

5 years, 5 months ago