Podcast Episodes

Miranda Hart

Miranda Hart burst into our living rooms in 2009 with her semi-autobiographical, multi-award winning TV sit-com Miranda. Her irrepressible physical c…

1 year, 6 months ago

Sister Mary Joy Langdon

In the hot, dry summer of 1976, Mary Joy Langdon made a very bold decision: she joined the fire service. She was the first woman in the UK to work as…

1 year, 6 months ago

Christmas Collection

Michael Berkeley shares festive music choices from Private Passions over the years. We’ll hear how Handel can evoke memories of roast potatoes in the…

1 year, 6 months ago

Nick Mohammed

The actor, comedian and writer Nick Mohammed hasn’t followed an obvious career path. His youthful obsessions included performing magic and playing th…

1 year, 7 months ago

Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey

Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, grew up in care, and when she left school, she worked first for the gas board, then as a social worker and as …

1 year, 7 months ago

Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett left school at 16 to train as an actor and first shot to wider fame in 1984 as a dashing public schoolboy in the film Another Country.…

1 year, 7 months ago

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock readily admits that her childhood television viewing played a vital role in her eventual choice of career: she loved Star T…

1 year, 8 months ago

Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry has been a very familiar voice for more than 50 years, as the co-founder of Roxy Music and as a solo artist and songwriter.

When Roxy Mus…

1 year, 8 months ago

Brian Cox

Brian Cox has enjoyed a prolific career in theatre, film and television over the last 60 years.

Born in Dundee, he was obsessed by film from an early …

1 year, 8 months ago

Garth Greenwell

The American writer Garth Greenwell won widespread acclaim for his first novel, What Belongs to You, including the British Book Award for the Debut o…

1 year, 8 months ago