Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLady Brenda Hale
Lady Hale is a trailblazer. 30 years ago, she was the first woman to be appointed to the Law Commission (and the youngest person there); 10 years ago…
12 years, 2 months ago
Jonathan Meades
Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades's fascination with architecture began on a school trip to Marsh Court in Stockbridge, Hampshire - designed by …
12 years, 2 months ago
Nicholas Penny
For this special Easter edition of Private Passions, Michael Berkeley is given a backstage tour of the National Gallery by its Director, the distingu…
12 years, 2 months ago
Charlotte Mendelson
Charlotte Mendelson's novels are in danger of making you laugh out loud: the absurdities of family life, the excruciating embarrassment of being youn…
12 years, 2 months ago
Theo Fennell
There's a huge revival in British craftsmanship going on at the moment, with a new generation keen to learn how to make beautiful things. For 40 year…
12 years, 3 months ago
Craig Brown at Southbank Centre
Craig Brown has been described by The Sunday Times as "our greatest living satirist". He invented the conservative Spectator columnist Wallace Arnold…
12 years, 3 months ago
John Finnemore
John Finnemore is one of our most successful comedy writers and performers. A star turn in Miranda as the doting husband Chris, he writes and stars i…
12 years, 4 months ago
Kwasi Kwarteng
If you should happen to be walking through the House of Commons, and hear loud Wagner blasting out along those corridors of power ? you know you're h…
12 years, 4 months ago
Joan Armatrading
When Joan Armatrading's mother bought a piano 'as a piece of furniture' little did she know what she was starting. The fourteen-year-old Joan taught …
12 years, 4 months ago
Michael Horovitz
Michael Horovitz is one of the last surviving Beatniks, 'the big daddy of the British Beat Movement'. In the 1950s, he founded a ground-breaking maga…
12 years, 5 months ago