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Private Passions Episodes

  1. Jennifer Worth

    Another chance to hear the musical choices of the late Jennifer Worth, a former midwife.

  2. 21/09/2008

    With Michael Berkeley. Actor Dominic West chooses music by Pergolesi, Handel and Mozart.

  3. Alex Ross

    Michael Berkeley's guest is critic Alex Ross, who chooses music by Purcell and Strauss.

  4. 07/09/2008

    Folk singer Judy Collins chooses music by Rachmaninov, Sondheim and Joni Mitchell.

  5. 31/08/2008

    With satirist, cartoonist and jazz musician Barry Fantoni, who chooses music by Scarlatti.

  6. Richard Fortey

    Palaeontologist Dr Richard Fortey, chooses music including Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe.

  7. Private Passions - Ffion Hague

    Michael Berkeley meets Ffion Hague, wife of shadow foreign secretary William Hague.

  8. Kiran Desai

    Michael Berkeley talks to author Kiran Desai, whose musical choices include Bach.

  9. 03/08/2008

    Writer Bryan Appleyard, chooses sacred works by Tallis and Bach, and songs by Bob Dylan.

  10. Margaret Hodge

    With Margaret Hodge MP, who chooses operatic excerpts by Wagner and piano music by Chopin.

  11. Jeanette Winterson

    Michael Berkeley talks to Jeanette Winterson, who chooses music by Bjork and Maria Callas.

  12. Derren Brown

    Michael Berkeley talks to Derren Brown, who chooses music by Bach, Tallis and Elgar.

  13. 29/06/2008

    Michael Berkeley talks to 蜜芽传媒 journalist Matt Frei, who chooses music by Beethoven.

  14. Rowan Williams

    Michael Berkeley's guest is former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams.

  15. Robert Fisk

    Michael Berkeley meets Robert Fisk, who chooses music including Britten's War Requiem.

  16. 08/06/2008

    Biogeographer Professor Philip Stott chooses music by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

  17. 01/06/2008

    Maria Chevska of Oxford University chooses works by Bach as well as Polish jazz.

  18. Terry Burns

    The economist Terry Burns chooses music including excerpts from Purcell's The Fairy Queen.

  19. Private Passions

    A Chopin archive selection, with jazz bassist Charlie Haden on the Etudes.

  20. Colin Salmon

    Actor Colin Salmon chooses music by Strauss, Bartok, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.

  21. 04/05/2008

    Physicist Prof Brian Foster chooses music by Brahms, Bruch, Mozart and Prokofiev.

  22. 27/04/2008

    Colin Low chooses music by Schumann, Wolf, Schumann, Messiaen, Grainger and Wagner.

  23. 20/04/2008

    Singer and songwriter PJ Harvey chooses music by Part, Vaughan Williams and Nina Simone.

  24. 13/04/2008

    Prof Simon Baron-Cohen chooses works by Bach, Mozart, Eva Cassidy as well as klezmer music

  25. 06/04/2008

    Actor Edward Fox chooses performances by pianists such as Josef Hofmann and Artur Schnabel

  26. 30/03/2008

    Former dancer Paul Old chooses music by Steve Reich, John Cage and Nina Simone.

  27. 23/03/2008

    Actress Vanessa Redgrave chooses music by Vaughan Williams.

  28. 16/03/2008

    Artist Ian McKeever chooses pieces by John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Messaien and Strauss.

  29. Private Passions

    Edward Gillespie, the head of Cheltenham Racecourse, chooses works by Grieg and Howells.

  30. 02/03/2008

    Writer/clinical psychologist Frank Tallis chooses works by Mahler, Zemlinsky and Takemitsu

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