Podcast Episodes

Vesna Goldsworthy

Thirty years ago, Vesna Goldsworthy fell in love with a young Englishman she met at a summer school in Bulgaria; she moved to England to be with him,…

9 years, 4 months ago

Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah grew up in Zimbabwe during segregation, when black girls were not thought worthy of education. Despite this, she became a lawyer and wa…

9 years, 4 months ago

Peter Robinson

Crime-writer Peter Robinson tops the best-seller lists year after year, across the world; in fact his detective, DI Banks, is probably even better kn…

9 years, 5 months ago

Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas burst onto the art scene in the early 1990s, one of the wildest and most provocative of the Young British Artists. Her work was challengi…

9 years, 5 months ago

Stephanie Flanders

Stephanie Flanders is familiar to most of us from the years she spent as the BBC's Economics Editor, untangling graphs and statistics and treasury po…

9 years, 5 months ago

Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands is a human rights lawyer who recently won the biggest non-fiction prize in the UK, the £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize, for his book "Ea…

9 years, 5 months ago

Archbishop John Sentamu

Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, is a special guest for Christmas Day.

In Private Passions, he talks to Michael Berkeley about being the middle ch…

9 years, 6 months ago

Edward Watson

Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson talks to Michael Berkeley about his life in dance and shares the music that has inspired him both professionally…

9 years, 6 months ago

Chris Hadfield

Chris Hadfield has described going into space as 'strapping yourself on top of what is essentially a large bomb'. He is one of the world's most respe…

9 years, 7 months ago

Charlie Phillips

Charlie Phillips is a Jamaican-born photographer whose work has been exhibited across the world, and is part of the permanent collections of The Tate…

9 years, 7 months ago