Private Passions Episodes Episode guide
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Private Passions
A Chopin archive selection, with jazz bassist Charlie Haden on the Etudes.
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Colin Salmon
Actor Colin Salmon chooses music by Strauss, Bartok, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.
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04/05/2008
Physicist Prof Brian Foster chooses music by Brahms, Bruch, Mozart and Prokofiev.
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27/04/2008
Colin Low chooses music by Schumann, Wolf, Schumann, Messiaen, Grainger and Wagner.
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20/04/2008
Singer and songwriter PJ Harvey chooses music by Part, Vaughan Williams and Nina Simone.
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13/04/2008
Prof Simon Baron-Cohen chooses works by Bach, Mozart, Eva Cassidy as well as klezmer music
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06/04/2008
Actor Edward Fox chooses performances by pianists such as Josef Hofmann and Artur Schnabel
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30/03/2008
Former dancer Paul Old chooses music by Steve Reich, John Cage and Nina Simone.
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23/03/2008
Actress Vanessa Redgrave chooses music by Vaughan Williams.
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16/03/2008
Artist Ian McKeever chooses pieces by John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Messaien and Strauss.
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Private Passions
Edward Gillespie, the head of Cheltenham Racecourse, chooses works by Grieg and Howells.
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02/03/2008
Writer/clinical psychologist Frank Tallis chooses works by Mahler, Zemlinsky and Takemitsu
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24/02/2008
Actress Maureen Lipman chooses works by Bruch, Beethoven, Bernstein, Rossini and Bach.
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17/02/2008
Academic and political commentator Vernon Bogdanor chooses music by Wagner and Prokofiev.
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10/02/2008
Broadcaster Sandi Toksvig chooses musical theatre and operas by Mozart and Bizet.
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03/02/2008
Political cartoonist Martin Rowson chooses Bach and songs from The Sound of Music.
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27/01/2008
Michael Berkeley meets Bryan Appleyard, whose musical tastes include Tallis and Bach.
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20/01/2008
Singer and songwriter Katie Melua choses works by Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Ravel
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13/01/2008
Filmmaker Christopher Nupen chooses performances by Tito Gobbi, du Pre and Nathan Milstein
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06/01/2008
Playwright Mark Ravenhill chooses works by Offenbach, Beethoven, Adams, Britten and Verdi.
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30/12/2007
Actor and comedian Lenny Henry reveals his musical passions to Michael Berkeley.
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23/12/2007
Michael Berkeley meets Derren Brown, whose musical choices include Bach, Elgar and Tallis.
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Claire Bloom
Actress Claire Bloom chooses music by Schubert, Bach and Schoenberg, plus opera works.
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02/12/2007
Michael Berkeley talks to John Nickson, who chooses music by Wagner, Sibelius and Elgar.
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25/11/2007
Michael Berkeley meets jazz bassist Charlie Haden.
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18/11/2007
Michael Berkeley's guest is Prof Chris Higgins, who chooses Wagner and Monteverdi.
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11/11/2007
Michael Berkeley talks to artist William Crozier, who chooses Wagner and Shostakovich.
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04/11/2007
Michael Berkeley's guest is the historian and political journalist Peter Hennessy.
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28/10/2007
Michael Berkeley talks to writer Joyce Carol Oates, who chooses Beethoven and Faure.
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21/10/2007
Michael Berkeley talks to physicist John Enderby, who chooses Wagner, Mascagni and Mahler.