Private Passions
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Private Passions - 01/06/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is Maria Chevska, Head of Painting at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts at Oxford University, who chooses works by Bach as well as Polish jazz.
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Private Passions - 02/03/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is clinical psychologist and writer Dr Frank Tallis, whose musical choices include pieces by Mahler, Zemlinsky, Rachmaninov and a film score by Takemitsu.
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Private Passions - 02/12/2007
Michael Berkeley talks to John Nickson, Director of the Tate Foundation, whose musical choices include Wagner's Die Walkure and symphonies by Sibelius, Bruckner and Elgar.
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Private Passions - 03/02/2008
Michael Berkeley meets The Guardian's political cartoonist Martin Rowson, whose musical choices include Bach's St Matthew Passion and songs from The Sound of Music.
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Private Passions - 03/08/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is writer and commentator Bryan Appleyard, who chooses sacred works by Tallis and Bach, alongside music by Bob Dylan and classical string quartets.
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Private Passions - 04/05/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is physicist Prof Brian Foster, who chooses violin works by Brahms, Bruch, Mozart and Prokofiev as well as music by Palestrina, Shostakovich and Chet Baker.
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Private Passions - 04/11/2007
Michael Berkeley's guest is the English government historian and political journalist Peter Hennessy, whose musical choices include works by Bach, Pergolesi, Beethoven and Sibelius.
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Private Passions - 06/01/2008
Michael Berkeley talks to the controversial playwright Mark Ravenhill, whose musical choices include works by Offenbach, Beethoven, Verdi, Adams and Britten.
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Private Passions - 06/04/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Edward Fox, whose musical choices include performances from pianists including Josef Hofmann, Artur Schnabel, Edwin Fischer and Daniel Barenboim.
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Private Passions - 07/09/2008
Michael Berkeley meets folk singer-songwriter Judy Collins, whose choices include Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2, plus songs by Ned Rorem, Stephen Sondheim and Joni Mitchell.
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Private Passions - 08/06/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is biogeographer Professor Philip Stott, whose musical choices include works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Fanny Mendelssohn and Saint Saens.
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Private Passions - 09/11/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is writer David Almond, whose musical choices include works by Monteverdi, Mozart, Handel, Puccini and Bartok as well as traditional Japanese Noh music.
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Private Passions - 10/02/2008
Michael Berkeley talks to writer and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, whose tastes range from musical theatre to operas by Mozart, Bizet and Puccini to Haydn's Creation.
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Private Passions - 11/11/2007
Michael Berkeley talks to Scottish-born artist William Crozier, whose musical choices include works by Wagner, Charpentier, Mozart, Shostakovich and Charlie Parker.
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Private Passions - 13/01/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is documentary filmmaker Christopher Nupen, whose musical choices include performances by Lehmann, Tito Gobbi, the Budapest Quartet and Nathan Milstein.
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Private Passions - 13/04/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, who chooses music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin as well as Aretha Franklin, Eva Cassidy and traditional klezmer music.
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Private Passions - 16/03/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is abstract artist Ian McKeever, who chooses pieces by John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter and Keith Jarrett as well as Messaien, Szymanowski and Richard Strauss.
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Private Passions - 16/09/2007
Michael Berkeley talks to Indian-born author Kiran Desai whose musical choices include Bach played by Glenn Gould, three contrasting pieces of Indian music and Cesaria Evora.
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Private Passions - 17/02/2008
Michael Berkeley talks to academic and commentator on constitutional and political issues, Vernon Bogdanor, whose choices include Wagner's Parsifal and Prokofiev's 6th Symphony.
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Private Passions - 18/01/2009
Michael Berkeley talks to actress and author Carol Drinkwater, whose musical choices include Pablo Casals playing Bach, Spanish gypsy music, as well as Miles Davis and Nina Simone.
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Private Passions - 18/11/2007
Michael Berkeley's guest is Prof Chris Higgins, the new vice-chancellor of Durham University, whose musical choices include works by Wagner, Monteverdi, Beethoven and Britten.
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Private Passions - 20/01/2008
Michael Berkeley meets singer and songwriter Katie Melua, whose musical choices include works by Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Ravel.
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Private Passions - 20/04/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is singer and songwriter PJ Harvey, who chooses music by Part, Vaughan Williams, Nick Cave and Nina Simone.
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Private Passions - 21/09/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Dominic West, who chooses sacred music by Pergolesi, Handel and Mozart, plus songs by Schubert, Neil Young, Flanders and Swan and Jake Thackray.
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Private Passions - 21/10/2007
Michael Berkeley talks to physicist Sir John Enderby, whose musical choices include Wagner, Mascagni, Mahler, Mozart and Solomon playing Beethoven.
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Private Passions - 22/06/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, whose musical choices include sacred vocal music by Byrd and Britten, and Schumann's Piano Concerto.
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Private Passions - 23/03/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Vanessa Redgrave, whose musical choices range from Vaughan Williams to Daniel Barenboim directing his Arab-Israeli East West Divan orchestra.
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Private Passions - 23/09/2007
Michael Berkeley's guest is the satirist, cartoonist and jazz musician Barry Fantoni, whose musical choices include works by Scarlatti, Rameau, Grainger and Barber.
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Private Passions - 23/12/2007
Michael Berkeley meets Derren Brown, who thrills audiences with his famous experiments in 'Mind Control'. His musical choices include works by Bach, Tallis, Elgar and Beethoven.
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Private Passions - 24/02/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is the actress Maureen Lipman, whose musical choices include concertos by Bruch and Beethoven, arias by Bernstein and Rossini, and Glenn Gould playing Bach.
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Private Passions - 25/01/2009
Michael Berkeley's guest is writer and film-maker Tariq Ali, whose musical choices include Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit, plus Gluck, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.
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Private Passions - 25/11/2007
As Radio 3 celebrates the London Jazz Festival, Michael Berkeley meets jazz bassist Charlie Haden, whose musical interests embrace spirituals, film noir music and Cuban folk music.
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Private Passions - 27/01/2008
Michael Berkeley meets Bryan Appleyard, whose musical tastes range from sacred music by Tallis and Bach to Bob Dylan, as well as the classical string quartet.
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Private Passions - 27/04/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is Colin Low, Chairman of the RNIB, who chooses songs by Schumann and Wolf, piano music by Schumann and Messiaen and an excerpt from Wagner's Die Walkure.
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Private Passions - 28/09/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is former nurse and midwife Jennifer Worth, who chooses music from Maria Callas, Janet Baker and Edith Piaf as well as Russian Orthodox choral music.
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Private Passions - 28/10/2007
Michael Berkeley talks to American writer Joyce Carol Oates. Her choices include Claudio Arrau playing Chopin, Mozart's Requiem and Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust.
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Private Passions - 28/12/2008
Michael Berkeley talks to comedian Sue Perkins, whose musical choices include Britten, a Mozart aria, excerpts from Pergolesi's Stabat mater and the finale of Stravinsky's Firebird.
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Private Passions - 29/06/2008
Michael Berkeley talks to the BBC's Washington Correspondent Matt Frei, whose musical choices include Beethoven's Ode to Joy, Mozart's Flute Concerto in G and Puccini's La boheme.
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Private Passions - 30/03/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is former dancer Paul Old, who chooses pieces by Steve Reich, Gavin Bryars and John Cage as well as songs by Leonard Cohen and Nina Simone.
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Private Passions - 30/09/2007
Michael Berkeley talks to Tim Hely Hutchinson, one of Britain's most successful publishers, whose musical choices include works by Bellini, Donizetti and Gluck.
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Private Passions - 30/12/2007
Another chance to hear actor and comedian Lenny Henry revealing his musical passions to Michael Berkeley. His choices include works by Donizetti, Mozart and Ginastera.
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Private Passions - 31/08/2008
Michael Berkeley's guest is satirist, cartoonist and jazz musician Barry Fantoni, who chooses music by Scarlatti, Rameau and Grainger as well as Spike Milligan with George Martin.
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Private Passions - Adam Foulds
Michael Berkeley talks to novelist Adam Foulds. His selections include Schoenberg's Op 24 Serenade, plus Debussy, Oliver Knussen, Janacek, Nicholas Ludford and Neutral Milk Hotel.
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Private Passions - Alan Sillitoe
Another chance to hear a programme first broadcast in 2001. Michael Berkeley talks to Alan Sillitoe, author of 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning', who died earlier this year.
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Private Passions - Alex Ross
Michael Berkeley's guest is music critic Alex Ross, who choices include Purcell's Dido's Lament, part of Strauss' Salome and the Lacrimosa from Ligeti's Requiem.
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Private Passions - Alistair McGowan
With Michael Berkeley. Comedian Alistair McGowan's musical choices include piano works by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Marcel Zidani and Erik Satie, plus Grieg and Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Private Passions - Amit Chaudhuri
Michael Berkeley's guest is novelist and composer Amit Chaudhuri. His choices include Beethoven, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and Indian music, including a setting of a Tagore poem.
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Private Passions - Anthony Bolton
Anthony Bolton, one of Britain's most respected investment fund managers, is passionate about music and composes in his spare time, citing Benjamin Britten as a major influence.
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Private Passions - Anthony Horowitz
Michael Berkeley's guest is writer Anthony Horowitz, who musical selection includes Chopin piano works, opera by Mozart, Britten and Glass, as well as Maurice Jarre and Beethoven.
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Private Passions - Arabella Weir
Michael Berkeley's guest is comedian, actress and writer Arabella Weir. Her choices include music by Mozart, Schubert, Verdi and Beethoven, plus Kathleen Ferrier and Alfred Deller.
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Private Passions - Archbishop Bernard Longley
Michael Berkeley meets the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley. His choices include music by Borodin, Bax, Poulenc, Verdi, Messiaen and Vaughan Williams.
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Private Passions - Barbara Stocking
Michael Berkeley's guest is Barbara Stocking, CEO of Oxfam. Her choices include Bach's B minor Mass, two works by Mozart, a Borodin string quartet, plus music by Lara and Guerra.
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Private Passions - Bill Bailey
Michael Berkeley meets stand-up comedian, musician and actor Bill Bailey, star of the Channel 4 sitcom Black Books as well as TV shows such as Never Mind the Buzzcocks and QI.
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Private Passions - Cecil Balmond
Michael Berkeley is joined by structural engineer Cecil Balmond, who selects music by Bach, Chopin, Paganini, Benny Goodman's Quartet, Brahms, Beethoven and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
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Private Passions - Christopher Wynn Parry
Michael Berkeley's guest is consultant rheumatologist Christopher Wynn Parry. His musical choices include Monteverdi, Machaut, Byrd, Bach, Mozart, Handel and Stravinsky.
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Private Passions - Claire Bloom
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Claire Bloom, whose musical choices include opera, Alfred Brendel playing Schubert, and the radiant end of Schoenberg's Transfigured Night.
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Private Passions - Clive Stafford Smith
Michael Berkeley's guest is civil rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, who chooses gospel choir music, Peter Gabriel, as well as works by Rossini, Bach and Tallis.
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Private Passions - Colin Salmon
Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Colin Salmon, of the James Bond films, who chooses a song by Strauss, a piano piece by Bartok, and jazz pieces by Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.
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Private Passions - David Hyde Pierce
Michael Berkeley is joined by American actor David Hyde Pierce. He selects music from the English cathedral tradition, by Parry and Vierne, as well as Bach, Mendelssohn and Berlioz.
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Private Passions - Deborah Warner
Michael Berkeley's guest is award-winning theatre director Deborah Warner, who has brought a new stage production of Handel's Messiah to London's Coliseum.
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Private Passions - Derren Brown
Michael Berkeley's guest is illusionist Derren Brown, whose musical choices include Bach's Goldberg Variations and Cello Suites as well as works by Tallis and Elgar.
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Private Passions - Dominic West
Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Dominic West of The Wire. His musical choices range from sacred music by Pergolesi, Handel and Mozart, to songs by Schubert and Jake Thackray.
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Private Passions - Edmund de Waal
Michael Berkeley's guest is potter and writer Edmund de Waal, whose choices includes sacred music by Orlando Gibbons, Bach and Gesualdo, plus Adams, Eno, Mozart and Britten.
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Private Passions - Fiona Reynolds
Michael Berkeley talks to Fiona Reynolds, director of the National Trust. Her choices include Bach's 3rd Brandenburg Concerto, plus Elgar, Smetana, Mozart, Shostakovich and Janacek.
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Private Passions - Fleur Adcock
Michael Berkeley meets poet Fleur Adcock, whose musical choices include songs by Purcell, Britten, Weill and Bessie Smith, two pieces of choral music and Janacek's Sinfonietta.
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Private Passions - Frieda Hughes
Michael Berkeley's guest is poet and artist Frieda Hughes. Her musical choices range from piano music by Beethoven and Chopin to Vivaldi, John Tavener, Holst and AC/DC.
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Private Passions - Gareth Malone
Michael Berkeley's guest is choirmaster Gareth Malone, whose choices include Vaughan Williams, Bernstein, Byrd and Stravinsky as well as songs by Schumann and Finzi.
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Private Passions - Graham Vick
Graham Vick, one of the foremost opera directors of our time, talks to Michael Berkeley about his personal musical favourites, ranging from Machaut and Monteverdi to Bernstein.
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Private Passions - Hanan al-Shaykh
Michael Berkeley's guest is Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh, whose musical choices include Bach's Keyboard Concerto No 1, plus Schubert, Albinoni, Billie Holiday and Philip Glass.
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Private Passions - Handel Week - Tom Wright, David Almond
Michael Berkeley recalls previous guests who are passionate about aspects of Handel's music, including Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, and writers David Almond and Kirsty Gunn.
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Private Passions - Hisham Matar
Michael Berkeley is joined by is Libyan author Hisham Matar. His choices include Arabic music as well as Chopin, Sibelius, Ligeti, Schubert and Bob Dylan.
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Private Passions - Howard Jacobson
Michael Berkeley talks to author Howard Jacobson, winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. His musical choices include Bach, Schubert, a duet from Bless the Bride, Lehar and Grainger.
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Private Passions - Ian McDiarmid
Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Ian McDiarmid. His choices include two works by Britten, plus Schubert, MacMillan, Shostakovich and Bernstein. Plus poems by Wordsworth and Burns.
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Private Passions - Ian Rankin
Michael Berkeley talks to award-winning Scottish crime novelist Ian Rankin, whose choices include Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi as well as the sound of the Celtic harp.
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Private Passions - Imogen Stubbs
Michael Berkeley talks to actress Imogen Stubbs. Her musical choices include Brahms, Prokofiev and Shaun Davey, plus Jeff Buckley singing Britten and Alfred Deller singing Purcell.
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Private Passions - Jackie Kay
Prize-winning Scottish novelist and poet Jackie Kay talks to Michael Berkeley about her favourite music from Bach and Schubert to Janacek, Richard Strauss and Nina Simone.
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Private Passions - James Le Fanu
Michael Berkeley's guest is GP and journalist James Le Fanu, whose musical choices include a Byrd Mass, Haydn's The Creation, as well as Bach, Beethoven and Schumann.
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Private Passions - Jan Pienkowski
Michael Berkeley's guest is children's book illustrator Jan Pienkowski whose musical choices include works by Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Rachmaninov and The Beatles.
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Private Passions - Jane Asher
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress, writer and cake-maker Jane Asher, who chooses music by Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, plus Joan Sutherland in Donizetti.
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Private Passions - Janice Galloway
Michael Berkeley's guest is Scottish writer Janice Galloway, whose choices include pieces by both Schumanns as well as Handel, Chopin, Purcell, Mozart and Britten.
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Private Passions - Jason Rebello
Michael Berkeley meets British jazz pianist Jason Rebello, whose choices include Ivo Pogorelich playing Ravel, Alfred Brendel playing Beethoven as well as Durufle and Bartok.
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Private Passions - Jasper Conran
Michael Berkeley's guest is fashion designer Jasper Conran, who chooses music from Kathleen Ferrier, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, as well as Mozart, Schubert, Chopin and Handel.
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Private Passions - Jeanette Winterson
Michael Berkeley talks to novelist Jeanette Winterson. Singers Bjork, Maria Callas, Sarah Connolly and Ian Bostridge, and cellist Natalie Clein are among her chosen performers.
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Private Passions - Jeremy Northam
Michael Berkeley meets actor Jeremy Northam, whose musical choices include performances by Andras Schiff and Keith Jarrett, plus works from Puccini, Janacek, Schubert and Mahler.
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Private Passions - Joanne Harris
Michael Berkeley's guest is writer Joanne Harris, author of the novel Chocolat. Her choices include In the Hall of the Mountain King, plus Smetana, Schubert, Mahler and Rachmaninov.
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Private Passions - John Adams
Michael Berkeley's guest is composer John Adams, whose musical choices include Sousa, Duke Ellington and the Beach Boys, as well as Beethoven, Schubert, Hagen, Wagner and Debussy.
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Private Passions - John Burnside
Michael Berkeley talks to Scots poet and novelist John Burnside, whose musical choices include Sheppard and Handel, a Bach partita for keyboard and Miles Davis' Time after Time.
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Private Passions - John Mortimer
The musical choices of the late John Mortimer, barrister, playwright and creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, who died in 2009. Recorded at his home and first broadcast in 1995.
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Private Passions - John Stefanidis
Michael Berkeley's guest is interior designer John Stefanidis, whose choices include work by Brahms, Korngold, Rossini and Tchaikovsky, and Indian music, played by Ravi Shankar.
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Private Passions - Jonathan Dimbleby
Michael Berkeley talks to broadcaster and political commentator Jonathan Dimbleby, who has chosen a Mozart piano sonata as well as music by Verdi, Bach, Beethoven and Britten.
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Private Passions - Julian Rhind-Tutt
Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Julian Rhind-Tutt. His musical choices include a trumpet concerto by Telemann, plus works by Bach, John Hilton, Puccini, Mahler and Prokofiev.
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Private Passions - Kate O'Mara
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Kate O'Mara, who chooses baroque music by Bach and Zelenka, pastoral scenes by Dvorak and Butterworth, plus Shostakovich Jazz Suites.
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Private Passions - Katie Mitchell
Michael Berkeley meets theatre director Katie Mitchell, whose musical choices include a Bach aria, string quartets by Beethoven and Janacek, and music by Nono and Schnittke.
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Private Passions - Kiran Desai
Michael Berkeley talks to author Kiran Desai, who grew up in India and lives in America. Her musical choices include Bach played by Glenn Gould and Pablo Casals and Cesaria Evora.
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Private Passions - Lee Hall
Michael Berkeley's guest is playwright Lee Hall. His musical choices include Alfred Deller singing Purcell and Maurizio Pollini playing Schumann, plus Conlon Nancarrow and Messiaen.
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Private Passions - Leslie Caron
Michael Berkeley's guest is French actress and former dancer Leslie Caron. Her choices include music from her early dancing years and favourite songs, as well as a Bach cello suite.
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Private Passions - Marcia Schofield
Michael Berkeley's guest is NHS doctor and former keyboardist for The Fall Marcia Schofield, who chooses music by Part, Tavener, John Adams, Scriabin and Bartok.
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Private Passions - Margaret Hodge
Michael Berkeley's guest is Margaret Hodge MP. Her musical choices include operatic excerpts by Wagner and Bellini, piano music by Chopin and Beethoven, and a song by Joan Baez.
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Private Passions - Marianne Faithfull
Michael Berkeley meets actress and singer Marianne Faithfull, whose musical choices include a Bach cello suite and a Mozart aria, plus Beethoven, Schubert, Bernstein and Bob Dylan.
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Private Passions - Marina Lewycka
Michael Berkeley is joined by novelist Marina Lewycka, whose choices include two Bach Brandenburg Concertos, plus music by Handel, Sibelius, Mozart, Berlioz and Mozart.
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Private Passions - Mark Gatiss
Michael Berkeley meets actor and writer Mark Gatiss. His musical choices include excerpts from works by Vaughan Williams, Wagner, Offenbach, Cole Porter and Leonard Bernstein.
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Private Passions - Mark Haddon
Michael Berkeley talks to novelist Mark Haddon, whose musical choices include a Mozart piano sonata, as well as music by Britten, Steve Reich, Elliott Carter and Sonic Youth.
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Private Passions - Martin Jarvis
Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Martin Jarvis. His musical choices include Schubert's Die Forelle, plus works by Stravinsky, Bizet, Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann.
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Private Passions - Michael Morpurgo
Michael Berkeley's guest is children's author Michael Morpurgo, whose musical choices include works by Tallis, Purcell, Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.
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Private Passions - Michael Pennington
Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Michael Pennington. His musical choices include works by Stravinsky, Tim Hardin, Bach, Rachmaninov, Britten, Strauss and Joan Armatrading.
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Private Passions - Michael Portillo
Michael Berkeley talks to former Cabinet minister Michael Portillo, whose musical choices range from Wagner's Ring cycle to Shostakovich's 13th Symphony and Puccini's opera Tosca.
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Private Passions - MJ Cole
Michael Berkeley's guest is DJ, producer, remixer and garage artist MJ Cole. He chooses music by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Ravel, John Adams, Radiohead and Sting.
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Private Passions - Mozart Compilation
Michael Berkeley with choices by past guests who are all passionate about Mozart's music. Includes String Quartet in G, K387, chosen by Michael Dibdin; Requiem, from Fiona Shaw.
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Private Passions - Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, reveals his musical passions to Michael Berkeley. His choices include Schubert, Chopin, Mozart and Strauss.
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Private Passions - Opera
Michael Berkeley introduces a selection of former guests discussing their love of opera, including Joanna Lumley, Jonathan Miller, Anthony Minghella and Stephen Fry.
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Private Passions - Pamela Stephenson Connolly
Michael Berkeley's guest is psychologist and writer Pamela Stephenson Connolly. Her choices include singing by Joan Sutherland and Kiri te Kanawa, plus Weill, Satie and Debussy.
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Private Passions - Paul McKenna
Michael Berkeley talks to hypnotist and television personality Paul McKenna, whose musical choices include Bizet's Symphony in C, plus Rossini, Mozart, Wagner and Max Steiner.
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Private Passions - Paul Rhys
Michael Berkeley talks to Welsh actor Paul Rhys, whose choices range from a Welsh male voice choir to Bach's St Matthew Passion, taking in works by Beethoven, Purcell and Schubert.
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Private Passions - Penelope Wilton
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Penelope Wilton, whose musical interests range from Brahms and Dvorak to Debussy, Prokofiev and Weill.
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Private Passions - Peter Bazalgette
Michael Berkeley's guest is media entrepreneur Peter Bazalgette. His choices include a Schubert impromptu, plus music by Britten, Bach, Strauss, Mozart, The Beatles and Carl Davis.
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Private Passions - Peter Kosminsky
Michael Berkeley talks to TV director Peter Kosminsky, who chooses music including Beethoven's Symphony No 6, Mozart's Requiem, Glass's The Photographer and Bruch's Kol Nidrei.
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Private Passions - Peter Nichols
Michael Berkeley's guest is playwright and author of black comedies, Peter Nichols. His musical choices range from Erik Satie's piano music to Gershwin's delightful Walking the Dog.
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Private Passions - Philip Ball
Michael Berkeley's guest is science writer Phlip Ball. His choices include a Bach prelude, a piano concerto by Bartok and a piano sonata by Prokofiev, plus Stravinsky and Ellington.
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Private Passions - Philip Campbell
Michael Berkeley's guest is scientist Philip Campbell, whose choices range from Byrd and Bach to Debussy, Schoenberg, Messiaen and Tippett, as well as Gershwin and Led Zeppelin.
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Michael Berkeley's guest is Edward Gillespie, managing director of Cheltenham Racecourse, whose musical choices include Grieg's Holberg Suite and works by Howells and Grainger.
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Michael Berkeley presents a Chopin archive selection, including jazz bassist Charlie Haden on the Etudes and scholar Edward Said on the Impromptu, Op 36.
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Private Passions - Private Passions - Ffion Hague
Michael Berkeley meets Ffion Hague, wife of Conservative MP William Hague. Her choices include Bryn Terfel singing a Welsh lullaby and Bruckner's motet Christus factus est.
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Private Passions - Private Passions - John Sessions as Felix Mendelssohn
Michael Berkeley is transported to the Isle of Staffa, where he the great Felix Mendelssohn (aka John Sessions) and his charming sister Fanny Hensel (Rebecca Front).
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Private Passions - Rachel Cusk
Michael Berkeley's guest is Canadian-born author Rachel Cusk, whose choices include music from Handel, Britten, Janacek, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Finzi.
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Private Passions - Richard Alston
Michael Berkeley talks to choreographer Richard Alston, whose musical choices include devotional works by Bach, Handel, Purcell and the Sufi tradition, plus Sinatra and Porter.
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Private Passions - Richard Fortey
Michael Berkeley's guest is palaeontologist Dr Richard Fortey, who chooses music including Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, and Bartok's Music for strings, percussion of celesta.
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Private Passions - Richard Hudson
Michael Berkeley's guest is theatrical designer Richard Hudson, whose choice of music includes the South African national anthem, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Cole Porter.
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Private Passions - Rick Wakeman
Michael Berkeley's guest is rock star Rick Wakeman, whose musical choices reflect a deep love of music from Eastern Europe, with works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Smetana and Part.
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Private Passions - Robert Fisk
Michael Berkeley meets journalist Robert Fisk, whose musical choices include Britten's War Requiem, Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony as well as concertos by Handel and Brahms.
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Private Passions - Russell Kane
Michael Berkeley's guest is stand-up comedian Russell Kane, currently touring his new show. His choices include music by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Bartok and Scriabin.
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Private Passions - Sam Taylor-Wood
Michael Berkeley meets conceptual artist and film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood.
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Private Passions - Sam Taylor-Wood
Michael Berkeley meets Turner Prize-nominated conceptual artist and film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood, whose biopic "Nowhere Boy" traces the early life of John Lennon.
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Private Passions - Sarah Dunant
Michael Berkeley's guest is the writer and broadcaster Sarah Dunant, whose choices include chamber works by Bach and Schubert and songs by Van Morrison and Leonard Cohen.
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Private Passions - Scott Turow
Michael Berkeley's guest is American lawyer and crime writer Scott Turow. His choices include music by Bach, Gershwin, Puccini, Stravinsky, Sondheim and The Byrds.
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Private Passions - Shirley Williams
Michael Berkeley is joined by politician Shirley Williams. Her choices include part of Britten's Peter Grimes, plus Copland, Schubert, Simon and Garfunkel and Purcell.
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Private Passions - Stewart Copeland
Michael Berkeley meets drummer from The Police and opera composer Stewart Copeland. His musical choices include Wagner, Ravel, John Adams, Booker T, Paul Simon and Desmond Dekker.
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Private Passions - Terence Blanchard
Michael Berkeley meets jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, whose musical choices include works by Stravinsky, Debussy, Richard Strauss, Gershwin and Weather Report.
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Private Passions - Terence Davies
Michael Berkeley's guest is screenwriter and director Terence Davies, who chooses songs from musicals, Kathleen Ferrier and symphonies by Sibelius, Bruckner and Shostakovich.
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Private Passions - Terry Burns
Michael Berkeley's guest is the economist Terry Burns, whose musical choices include excerpts from Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Monteverdi's Vespers, plus a Bach cantata.
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Private Passions - Thomas Allen
Michael Berkeley's guest is baritone Thomas Allen. His musical choices include opera from Humperdinck, Wagner and Monteverdi, as well as pieces by Schubert and Frank Bridge.
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Private Passions - Tracy Chevalier
Michael Berkeley's guest is novelist Tracy Chevalier. Her musical choices include works by Schubert, Dvorak, Brahms, Schumann, Bernstein and Talking Heads.
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Private Passions - Vincent Cable
Michael Berkeley's guest is Vincent Cable, deputy leader and chief economic spokesperson of the Liberal Democrats. He chooses music by Mozart, plus Pavarotti and Nicolai Gedda.
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Private Passions - William Fiennes
Michael Berkeley's guest is writer William Fiennes, who chooses piano pieces by Bach, Schubert and Shostakovich, chamber music by Beethoven and Messiaen, and a Bruckner motet.
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Private Passions - William Orbit
Record producer William Orbit, who has worked with Madonna and Blur, tells Michael Berkeley about his favourite music, including Mozart, Bellini, Britten and Stravinsky.
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Private Passions - Zdenka Fantlova
Michael Berkeley's guest is Czech-born former actress Zdenka Fantlova, who talks about her wartime experiences and how her love of music has enriched her life.
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