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Michael Berkeley's guest today is the sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar, one of the stars of world music today. She studied exclusively with…
9 years, 10 months ago
Private Passions: John Peel
Broadcaster, John Peel discusses his personal music choices with Michael Berkeley in 1996 - drawn from the archive to mark 20 years of Private Passio…
9 years, 10 months ago
Private Passions: Sir Isaiah Berlin
Philosopher, Isaiah Berlin discusses his personal music choices with Michael Berkeley in 1996 - drawn from the archive to mark 20 years of Private Pa…
9 years, 10 months ago
Anna Pavord
Michael Berkeley's guest is Anna Pavord, the distinguished writer about gardens and landscape. Her best-known book is The Tulip, a biography of the b…
9 years, 10 months ago
Stephen Hugh-Jones
Stephen Hugh-Jones is a fellow of King's College Cambridge and has spent 45 years researching - and living among - the Amazonian Indians who live on …
9 years, 10 months ago
Janine di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni has spent more than two decades reporting from some of the most dangerous places on earth: Sarajevo, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Iraq, a…
9 years, 11 months ago
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Timberlake Wertenbaker is one of our leading playwrights, adapters and translators. Her parents were American, but she was brought up in Basque count…
9 years, 11 months ago
Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Desplat is one of the world's leading composers of film music, with more than 120 scores to his name. His big breakthrough came in 2007 wit…
9 years, 11 months ago
Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson began her working life busking and writing songs, and when one of her songs became a children’s book, her phenomenally successful car…
10 years ago
Glenda Jackson
For three decades Glenda Jackson was one of our most acclaimed actors, winning BAFTAs, Golden Globes and Emmys, and two Oscars - for Women in Love an…
10 years ago