Ahead of this week's first test against India, Michael Berkeley's guest is cricket commentator...
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Ahead of this week's first test against India, Michael Berkeley's guest is cricket commentator...
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At first glance chocolate brownies, puff pastry and Battenberg cake don’t seem to have a great...
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From Hollywood to European art house cinema, from Shakespeare to contemporary drama, Greta...
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2023 marks the centenary of the composer György Ligeti's birth, and in this programme, first...
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Raynor Winn is a writer whose first book, The Salt Path, followed the remarkable 630-mile journey...
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Jeremy Deller is a difficult artist to pin down. He’s won the Turner Prize and represented...
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Rhiannon Giddens has won two Grammy awards for her folk music albums, and a Pulitzer Prize for...
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Peter Frankopan is a historian who likes to take on big ideas, sweeping across many centuries and...
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Olivia Harrison is a prizewinning film producer and charity director. Last year she published...
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Professor Fay Dowker is a theoretical physicist fascinated by space and time. She was obsessed...
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Brian Cox has enjoyed a prolific career in theatre, film and television over the last sixty...
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Chris Addison has built his career on laughter, as a stand-up comedian, a panellist on shows such...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021, honouring a career in which he’s...
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The abstract painter Mali Morris is fascinated by colour and light, and has been exploring their...
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The best-selling American writer Daniel Handler is perhaps better known by his pen name, Lemony...
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Kevin O’Hare is the director of the Royal Ballet and he probably finds it hard to remember a time...
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Walter Murch is a Hollywood legend. He’s won three Oscars for his sound and editing work on...
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Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser first realised plants are extraordinary and astonishing at school,...
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Johnny Flynn is a polymath – as comfortable as an actor on stage and screen as he is writing and...
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Nina Stibbe was fifty when she first became a published writer with Love Nina, a collection of...
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