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Michael Sheen is famous for playing real people on screen - from Tony Blair and Kenneth Williams to Brian Clough and David Frost. And it was playing …
12 years, 5 months ago
Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert is a distinguished scientist -and a familiar lanky figure on his bicycle, cycling through the Bloomsbury traffic to University College …
12 years, 5 months ago
Music in the Great War: Pat Barker
Writer Pat Barker is fascinated by the First World War; for twenty years now, her award-winning novels have returned again and again to the trauma an…
12 years, 6 months ago
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela is a jazz legend. Brought up in South Africa during Apartheid, he left the country at 21, and spent the next 30 years in exile, releasi…
12 years, 6 months ago
Justin Welby
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, talks to Michael Berkeley about his favourite music and the meaning of Christmas. His choices include Chr…
12 years, 6 months ago
Tom Hooper
Somehow Tom Hooper has cracked the secret of making films which audiences really love. Whether you count Oscars and Baftas or box office takings he i…
12 years, 7 months ago
Laura Mvula
Laura Mvula is more than just a pop star; before she had a best-selling album and industry awards she studied composition at the Birmingham Conservat…
12 years, 7 months ago
Private Passions: Maggi Hambling
As part of Radio 3's Britten Centenary weekend, Michael Berkeley travels to Aldeburgh beach to meet the artist Maggi Hambling at her controversial me…
12 years, 7 months ago
Martin Gayford
Martin Gayford has a passion for painting and music, and has spent his career writing about artists - Constable, Van Gogh, David Hockney, Lucian Freu…
12 years, 8 months ago
Roddy Doyle
It was a band called The Commitments that first brought Roddy Doyle fame 25 years ago - not a real group of musicians, but a comic novel about a grou…
12 years, 8 months ago