Private Passions

Professor Sue Black

Professor Lady Sue Black is one of the world’s leading forensic scientists. She says “I have...

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David Mitchell

David Mitchell is the author of nine time-traversing, genre-bending novels. His first,...

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• 13 días

John Krebs

John Krebs is a zoologist who has specialised in the behaviour of birds. Although he was the son...

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• 20 días

Helena Newman

Helena Newman has many strings to her bow, She is the Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and the...

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Mark Cousins - Sound of Cinema Sunday

Michael Berkeley’s guest is the film-maker, producer and writer Mark Cousins. His documentary...

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Michael Winterbottom

Michael Winterbottom is one of Britain’s most prolific and eclectic film directors: his work...

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Ray Cooper

The percussionist Ray Cooper is often referred to as the ‘father of rock and roll percussion’. He...

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Raymond Blanc

Raymond Blanc is one of the finest chefs in the world and he is completely self-taught. He grew...

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Louise Welsh

Louise Welsh worked in a second-hand bookshop in Glasgow before she took the plunge to become a...

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Lorna Dawson

Professor Lorna Dawson is one of the UK’s leading forensic scientists. She examines soil in order...

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• 3 meses

Merlin Sheldrake

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and writer with a mission: to make us look at and understand...

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• 3 meses

Nina Stibbe

Nina Stibbe was fifty when she first became a published writer with Love Nina, a collection of...

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• 3 meses

Johnny Flynn

Johnny Flynn is a polymath – as comfortable as an actor on stage and screen as he is writing and...

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Dame Ottoline Leyser

Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser first realised plants are extraordinary and astonishing at school,...

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• 4 meses

Walter Murch

Walter Murch is a Hollywood legend. He’s won three Oscars for his sound and editing work on...

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• 4 meses

Kevin O'Hare

Kevin O’Hare is the director of the Royal Ballet and he probably finds it hard to remember a time...

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• 5 meses

Daniel Handler

The best-selling American writer Daniel Handler is perhaps better known by his pen name, Lemony...

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• 5 meses

Mali Morris

The abstract painter Mali Morris is fascinated by colour and light, and has been exploring their...

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• 5 meses

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021, honouring a career in which he’s...

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• 5 meses

Chris Addison

Chris Addison has built his career on laughter, as a stand-up comedian, a panellist on shows such...

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