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Back to SearchChristopher Ricks
Michael Berkeley's guest is the distinguished scholar Sir Christopher Ricks, who was described by W.H. Auden as 'the kind of critic every poet dreams…
10 years, 7 months ago
Christina Lamb
Christina Lamb is one of Britain's leading foreign correspondents. As a young journalist barely into her twenties, she went to live with the Afghan M…
10 years, 7 months ago
Free Thinking: Sugata Mitra
As part of Radio 3's Free Thinking weekend, Michael Berkeley talks to Sugata Mitra, who has started a revolution in education. He believes schools as…
10 years, 8 months ago
Kim Brandstrup
Kim Brandstrup is one of the leading choreographers of his generation. He talks to Michael Berkeley about his passion for telling stories through mus…
10 years, 8 months ago
Owen Sheers
Owen Sheers' career as a poet began aged 10, when he won a competition at Abergavenny Show for a poem in which he found a rhyme for "orange" - a moun…
10 years, 8 months ago
David Tang
David Tang arrived in Britain from Hong Kong aged 13 and not speaking a word of English. Since then he has thoroughly embraced Britishness, and the B…
10 years, 9 months ago
Athene Donald
Dame Athene Donald is one of our leading physicists, and an outstanding role model and campaigner for women in science. She is Master of Churchill Co…
10 years, 9 months ago
Why Music? Weekend: Frank Wilczek
As part of Radio 3's Why Music? weekend, Michael Berkeley talks to the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek. Frank Wilczek was brought up in Q…
10 years, 9 months ago
Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is a writer with a worldwide reach. Born in Calcutta, educated in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria, he lives now between New York and Goa; h…
10 years, 9 months ago
Val McDermid
Val McDermid is one of the biggest names in crime writing. Her novels - 30 so far - have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and have been translat…
10 years, 10 months ago