Podcast Episodes

Jancis Robinson

In her forty-year career writing and broadcasting about wine, Jancis Robinson has probably done more than anyone else to make wine an accessible and …

10 years, 10 months ago

Virginia Ironside

Agony aunt, novelist and stand-up Virginia Ironside talks to Michael Berkeley about her favourite music, the Swinging Sixties, ukuleles, and growing …

10 years, 10 months ago

Faramerz Dabhoiwala

Faramerz Dabhoiwala, who is Professor of History at Exeter College, Oxford, has proved that what people got up to in the past is a serious and neglec…

10 years, 11 months ago

John Lahr

John Lahr talks to Michael Berkeley about his passion for the American Songbook, his award-winning biographies of Tennessee Williams and Joe Orton, a…

10 years, 11 months ago

Mona Siddiqui

Muslim theologian Mona Siddiqui talks to Michael Berkeley about her passion for piano music, how she came to love classical music through the cinema,…

10 years, 11 months ago

Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh is one of the country's leading neurosurgeons: as a senior consultant at St George's University Hospital in South London, he has pioneere…

11 years ago

Rachel Nicholson

Rachel Nicholson has an extraordinary artistic background: her mother was Barbara Hepworth, her father Ben Nicholson. Yet despite, perhaps because of…

11 years ago

Alison Goldfrapp

As part of the BBC's Classical Voice season, Michael Berkeley's guest is singer Alison Goldfrapp.

Alison Goldfrapp burst onto the music scene fifteen …

11 years ago

Jung Chang

It's impossible to imagine what it must have been like to live in a society where Western Classical music was forbidden on pain of severe punishment,…

11 years ago

Christopher Le Brun

The President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, gives Michael Berkeley a tour of this year's Summer Exhibition and shares his musica…

11 years, 1 month ago