Podcast Episodes

Nadifa Mohamed

Since the publication of her first novel while she was still in her twenties, Nadifa Mohamed has been a writer to watch. Her second novel, The Orchar…

5 years, 5 months ago

David 'Kid' Jensen

Michael Berkeley talks to disc jockey David ‘Kid’ Jensen about his career in pop music and his lifelong love of classical music.

In 1968 David Jensen…

5 years, 6 months ago

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason

Anyone who saw Sheku Kanneh-Mason play the cello at the Royal Wedding, or win BBC Young Musician of the Year at the age of only 17, will realise that…

5 years, 6 months ago

Judith Herrin

On this darkest day of the year, Judith Herrin brings to Private Passions the dazzling gold of medieval icons and mosaics: she has spent a lifetime e…

5 years, 6 months ago

Alexandra Harris

Michael Berkeley talks to Alexandra Harris, one of the very first Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers, about her passions for landscape, weather and musi…

5 years, 7 months ago

Mike Brearley

Mike Brearley, the former England cricket captain, talks to Michael Berkeley about the wide range of classical music that inspires him.

Mike is one of…

5 years, 7 months ago

Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry’s novels are like extraordinary highly coloured dreams - or nightmares. Her bestseller The Essex Serpent features a mythical sea-creature…

5 years, 8 months ago

Johny Pitts

Michael Berkeley talks to writer, photographer and broadcaster Johny Pitts about the music from his European and American heritage that inspires him.…

5 years, 8 months ago

Gretchen Gerzina

Gretchen Gerzina says that she’s drawn to writing about those who cross boundaries of time, place, and race. During a distinguished academic career, …

5 years, 8 months ago

Jack Klaff

Jack Klaff’s first movie was Star Wars: a two-day booking for which he was paid £250. Star Wars fans still write to ask him for his autograph. But to…

5 years, 9 months ago