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Back to SearchHelen Cammock
Helen Cammock grew up wanting to be a singer, and performed on the folk circuit as a teenager. But then she stopped, and became a social worker for m…
6 years, 6 months ago
Carlo Rovelli
As we start a new year, our thoughts turn towards the year ahead with all its plans and resolutions. And yet of course it is irrational to make this …
6 years, 6 months ago
Darcey Bussell
Darcey Bussell became principal dancer of the Royal Ballet at the age of only twenty; she went on to become a household name thanks to her seven year…
6 years, 6 months ago
Matthew Bourne
As a small child, Matthew Bourne used to put on shows in his parents’ living room in East London; by the age of eight or nine, he was staging musical…
6 years, 6 months ago
David Nott
David Nott is a Welsh consultant surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Imperial College London; for more than twenty-five years he has volunteered as a…
6 years, 7 months ago
Hannah Rankin
Hannah Rankin grew up on a sheep farm near Loch Lomond. Earlier this year she made history by becoming the first Scottish woman to win a boxing world…
6 years, 7 months ago
YolanDa Brown
In a special programme to coincide with the London Jazz Festival the outstanding saxophonist YolanDa Brown talks to Michael Berkeley about her passio…
6 years, 7 months ago
Ken Loach
The film director Ken Loach talks to Michael Berkeley about the classical music he’s loved throughout his life and the dangerous power of music in fi…
6 years, 8 months ago
Philippa Perry
Psychotherapist and author Philippa Perry talks to Michael Berkeley about the power of music to shape our emotions and tell the stories of our lives.…
6 years, 8 months ago
Venki Ramakrishnan
Sir Venki Ramakrishnan is President of the Royal Society and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009 for his research into the ribosome – the mysterious …
6 years, 8 months ago