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Michael Berkeley

@MichaelBerkele2

Composer, Broadcaster (Presenter of Private Passions - BBC Radio 3) Cross Bench Member of House of Lords

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On Private Passions at noon BBC Radio 3, Alison Owen, one of the UK’s leading film producers. Her most recent film is Back to Black.Alison is the mother of a high-profile star herself: the singer Lily Allen.
Her music choices include Beethoven, Coltrane, Ravel and Puccini.

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On Private Passions at noon BBC Radio 3 American writer Percival Everett. His latest novel is a powerful re-telling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
A horse trainer, cowboy and jazz guitarist he plays Dvorak, Schoenberg and a music from Holst’s The Planets.

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We are delighted to welcome Robert Laidlow to the Music Patron platform 🎉

Robert Laidlow is concerned with developing new forms of musical expression through the relationship between advanced technology, scientific collaboration, and live performance.

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We are delighted to welcome @Robert_Laidlow to the Music Patron platform 🎉 Robert Laidlow is concerned with developing new forms of musical expression through the relationship between advanced technology, scientific collaboration, and live performance. musicpatron.com/composer/rober…
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Great that the Government has compromised over infected blood otherwise it was facing another Post Office type scandal and national outrage,

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Private Passions
Edith Hall
Sunday 12:00
BBC Radio 3
Michael Berkeley's guest is the classicist @edithmayhall.
Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at Durham University.
Her music selection includes Schubert, Beethoven, Gluck and Handel.
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On Private Passions at noon BBC Radio 3 the classicist Edith Hall who has written extensively on suicide in Greek and Roman history and how it has informed her life.

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Morning! Join us BBC Radio 3 for Lezginka from Gayaneh, Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, a Battalia by Biber. Our Playlister is by Michael Berkeley & you’ll recognise it from Private Passions, The Wakeful Poet from Music From Chaucer & Part’s Spiegel im Spiegel @ 10.10 📻

Morning! Join us @BBCRadio3 for Lezginka from Gayaneh, Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, a Battalia by Biber. Our Playlister is by @MichaelBerkele2 & you’ll recognise it from Private Passions, The Wakeful Poet from Music From Chaucer & Part’s Spiegel im Spiegel @ 10.10 📻
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On Private Passions at noon on BBC Radio 3, Sathnam Sanghera. In 2008 he published his memoir of his early life called The Boy With the Topknot.
More recently he has focused on our colonial history. Sathnam's music includes Bach, John Coltrane, Debussy and Jasdeep Singh Degun.

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We're only £65 from our goal of reaching %10 of our target by tonight! Skip a latte so Sir Edward can sleep easy tonight?
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On Private Passions at noon BBC Radio 3 Professor Sue Black, the leading forensic scientist: “I have never been spooked by the dead. It is the living who terrify me. The dead are much more predictable and co-operative.” Music includes Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn and Elgar.

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Private Passions is now 90 minutes and our first guest at noon @BBCRRadio3 is David Mitchell, the author of nine time-traversing, genre-bending novels including Cloud Atlas which made his name. David's music includes Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov, Sibelius and Hildegard von Bingen.

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On PP at Noon BBC Radio 3 John Krebs, a zoologist specialising in the behaviour of birds. He found that birds that store seeds for the winter have remarkable spatial memory and an enlarged hippocampus. With music by Schubert, Schumann and Corelli.

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Actress (Jen in the IT Crowd), comedian and playwright Katherine Parkinson is my guest on a repeated Private Passions at noon on BBC Radio 3.
Katherine has music by John Tavener, George Gershwin and Thomas Tallis, and polyphonic singing she discovered while filming in Georgia.

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Local government funding is the major source of funding for arts and culture. That funding is now the major crisis point for the arts. This or a future government needs to turn around that funding urgently. My speech in Lords debate hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-03-…

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