Michael Berkeley's guest is artist Bruce Munro, best known for his installations such as Field...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Harriet Harman MP, who has been Deputy Leader of the Labour Party...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Australian-born actor Jonathan Hyde, a member of the Royal...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Bosnian-born fiction writer Aleksandar Hemon, who has lived in...

Michael Berkeley's guest is director Declan Donnellan, who co-founded Cheek by Jowl theatre...

Michael Berkeley's guest is South African-born actress Janet Suzman, who began her...

Michael Berkeley's guest is American crime writer Donna Leon, whose best-selling novels, set in...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scientist Jared Diamond, who has...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Fiona Sampson, who began her career as a concert violinist before...

Michael Berkeley's guest this week is George Young MP. A keen fan of opera, his musical choices...

Michael Berkeley's guest is historian, biographer and critic Lucy Hughes-Hallett, whose latest...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, who was born in Istanbul, a city that...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor Stephen Tompkinson, star of TV dramas such as DCI Banks and...

Michael Berkeley's guest is journalist and broadcaster Simon Hoggart, whose musical tastes...

Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Diana Rigg, whose career spans a wide range of TV roles,...

Michael Berkeley's guest is fashion designer Caroline Charles, who has styled many celebrities...

Michael Berkeley's guest is former prime minister John Major, who has recently published a book...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, writer of the Man Booker...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Labour peer, biographer and former businessman Charles Williams. A...

Michael Berkeley's guest on Remembrance Sunday is presenter and historian Dan Snow, whose TV...

Michael Berkeley's guest is the British geneticist and biogerontologist Linda Partridge, who...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Tim Smit, the Dutch-born businessman who studied archaeology and...

Michael Berkeley's guest is choreographer and former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene...

Michael Berkeley's guest is writer Michèle Roberts, who is currently Emeritus Professor of...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Joe Wright, director of award-winning films Pride & Prejudice...

Michael Berkeley's guest is best-selling novelist, playwright and screenwriter Fay Weldon, who...

Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Miriam Margolyes, star of many stage and screen productions...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Es Devlin, designer of the London 2012 closing ceremony, whose...

Michael Berkeley meets Greek composer Vangelis, who achieved worldwide fame with his Academy...

In the first of three Olympics-themed editions, Michael Berkeley meets former rower Adrian...

Michael Berkeley's guest is Newcastle-born actress Anne Reid, best-known for her roles as...

Michael Berkeley is joined by the Turner prize-winning painter, sculptor and video artist Mark...

Michael Berkeley welcomes best-selling children's author Judith Kerr, now 89, whose musical...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor Brian Blessed, whose small-screen rôles include Caesar Augustus...

Michael Berkeley's guest is historian and political biographer DR Thorpe. His musical choices...

Michael Berkeley welcomes chemist Professor David Phillips, author of nearly 600 books and...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actress Celia Imrie, whose TV rôles include Philippa Moorcroft in...

On the Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend, Michael Berkeley welcomes Poet Laureate Carol Ann...

Michael Berkeley welcomes food writer and critic Matthew Fort. A passionate music-lover, his...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Tessa Hadley, the author of such novels as Accidents in the Home,...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Australian-born choreographer and director Craig Revel Horwood,...

Michael Berkeley welcomes politician and diplomat Paddy Ashdown, the former leader of the...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor, playwright and director Steven Berkoff, renowned for the...

Michael Berkeley's guest is landscape artist Keith Grant, who was born in Liverpool and studied...

Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Caroline Quentin, star of Men Behaving Badly, Blue Murder...

Michael Berkeley's guest for the Sport Relief appeal this week is Austrian footballer Paul...

Michael Berkeley welcomes stage and TV actor Trevor Peacock, best known for his role as Jim...

Michael Berkeley is joined by visual artist Tacita Dean, who is best known for her work in 16mm...

Michael Berkeley is joined by film producer Stephen Evans, whose latest movie is First Night, a...

Michael Berkeley is joined by polymath Professor Raymond Tallis, who trained as a doctor and...

Michael Berkeley welcomes the TV historian Lucy Worsley, Cheif Curator of Historic Royal...

Michael Berkeley's guest this week is poet Christopher Reid, who wrote the award-winning series...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Spanish-born dancer Tamara Rojo, who was performing with the Royal...

Michael Berkeley welcomes composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose shows include Evita, The Phantom...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor Dan Stevens, who plays Matthew Crawley in the ITV series...

Michael Berkeley visits the Worcester Porcelain Museum to meet Henry Sandon, known to TV...

Michael Berkeley welcomes American jazz organist, trumpeter and singer Joey DeFrancesco, who is...

Michael Berkeley welcomes artist Garry Fabian Miller, whose work uses early photographic...

Michael Berkeley welcomes sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar, who studied with her...

Michael Berkeley's guest today is Trevor Phillips, chair of the Equality and Human Rights...

Michael Berkeley's guest this week is photographer, writer and broadcaster on architectural...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Margaret Mountford, the former corporate lawyer who became one of...

Michael Berkeley welcomes award-winning theatre director Michael Grandage, who succeeded Sam...

Michael Berkeley welcomes author Simon Mawer, whose most recent novel The Glass Room was...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Glasgow-born author Aminatta Forna, whose first book The Devil That...

Michael Berkeley welcomes historian Stella Tillyard, who has just published her first novel...

Michael Berkeley welcomes chef and cookery writer Simon Hopkinson, presenter of BBC1 TV series...

Patrick Leigh Fermor, travel writer and war hero, died in June at the age of 96. In 2005 he...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Hugh Hudson, director of such feature films as Chariots of Fire,...

Michael Berkeley's guest this week is novelist and poet Helen Dunmore, who won the first Orange...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Andrew Graham-Dixon, who began his career as chief art critic of the...

Michael Berkeley welcomes comedian Alex Horne, who has toured his shows nationally, and...

As part of Radio 3's celebration of light music, Michael Berkeley introduces a selection of...

Michael Berkeley welcomes choreographer David Bintley, artistic director of the Birmingham...

In an edition recorded at the Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival, Michael Berkeley talks to historian...

Michael Berkeley welcomes journalist and former newsreader Trevor McDonald, who started his...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor Max Beesley, who made his name in the 1997 TV mini-series The...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Cathy Marston, Director of the Bern Ballet, who trained at the Royal...

Michael Berkeley welcomes film-maker, writer and playwright Mike Leigh, who began his career in...

Michael Berkeley welcomes social and domestic historian Ruth Goodman, known to TV viewers as...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actress Olivia Williams, who played Bruce Willis's wife in The Sixth...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Eric Knowles, ceramics specialist on BBC TV's Antiques Roadshow, who...

Michael Berkeley welcomes British interior designer, socialite and occasional cabaret singer...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Frances Fyfield, who started her career as a criminal lawyer working...

Michael Berkeley welcomes American writer Nicole Krauss, who has contributed fiction to the New...

Michael Berkeley visits the Herefordshire home of Monty Don, the first self-taught...

Michael Berkeley welcomes comedian Al Murray, who was educated at Bedford School and Oxford...

Michael Berkeley's guest this week is Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History at...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Glaswegian artist Douglas Gordon, who won the Turner Prize in 1996...

Michael Berkeley welcomes journalist John Sergeant, who graduated from Magdalen College Oxford...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actress Joanna van Kampen, who has appeared as Fallon Rogers in The...

Michael Berkeley welcomes nature writer Richard Mabey, who has has published numerous books,...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Tim Waterstone, founder of the UK book-selling retail chain...

In honour of Radio 3's New Year celebration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Michael Berkeley delves...

Michael Berkeley welcomes New Zealand-born Australian clinical psychologist and Strictly Come...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor Julian Rhind-Tutt, who starred as Dr Mac McCartney in the...

Writer Adam Foulds, whose first novel The Truth About These Strange Times won a Betty Trask...

In an edition first broadcast in 2002, Michael Berkeley talks to newspaper columnist and writer...

Michael Berkeley's guest on Remembrance Sunday is Czech-born former actress Zdenka Fantlova, a...

Michael Berkeley's guest this week is comedienne, actress and author Arabella Weir, famous for...

Politician Shirley Williams, daughter of pacifist and writer Vera Brittain and philosopher...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor Ian McDiarmid, who has won many awards for his performances in...

Marina Lewycka, a post-war baby born to Ukrainian parents in a German refugee camp, has lived...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Graham Vick, artistic director of the Birmingham Opera Company, whose...

In an edition first broadcast in 2001, Michael Berkeley is joined by Alan Sillitoe, who died in...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Scottish novelist and poet Jackie Kay, whose work has won many awards...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Peter Bazalgette, the British media entrepreneur responsible for such...

Michael Berkeley welcomes the Turner Prize-nominated conceptual artist and film-maker Sam...

Michael Berkeley welcomes author Hisham Matar, who was born in New York to an affluent Libyan...

Michael Berkeley welcomes American actor David Hyde Pierce, perhaps most famous as one of the...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor Martin Jarvis, who made his first TV appearance in 1965 as a...

Michael Berkeley welcomes best-selling novelist Tracy Chevalier, whose popular book Girl with a...

Michael Berkeley welcomes stand-up comedian, actor and media personality Russell Kane, who is...

Michael Berkeley welcomes the musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer...

Michael Berkeley welcomes American attorney and best-selling crime writer Scott Turow. From...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Barbara Stocking, chief executive officer of Oxfam. Born into a...

Michael Berkeley welcomes operatic baritone Thomas Allen, whose trajectory from modest origins...

Michael Berkeley welcomes structural engineer Cecil Balmond, deputy chairman of Ove Arup, who...

Michael Berkeley introduces a selection of former guests talking about their favourite operas....

Michael Berkeley welcomes Canadian-born author Rachel Cusk, who won the Whitbread First Novel...

Pulitzer Prize-winner John Adams is arguably one of the world's most successful contemporary...

Michael Berkeley welcomes the science writer Philip Ball, author of popular books including...

Michael Berkeley is joined by writer Joanne Harris, whose best-selling novel Chocolat was made...

Michael Berkeley welcomes potter and writer Edmund de Waal, internationally renowned for his...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor, impressionist and comedian Alistair McGowan, who is best-known...

On Easter Sunday, Michael Berkeley meets Bernard Longley, the newly appointed Roman Catholic...

Michael Berkeley welcomes choirmaster Gareth Malone, presenter of BBC2 series The Choir. His...

Michael Berkeley welcomes playwright and scriptwriter Lee Hall, who made a great impression in...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who is perhaps best known as one of the...

Michael Berkeley welcomes artist and poet Frieda Hughes, daughter of poets Ted Hughes and...

The musical choices of John Mortimer, barrister, playwright and creator of Rumpole of the...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor Paul Rhys, who played Theo van Gogh in Robert Altman's film...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actress Penelope Wilton, whose choices range from Romantic pieces...

Author Janice Galloway musical favourites include Elvis Presley singing Jerry Leiber and Mike...

Michael Berkeley talks to Fiona Reynolds, director of the National Trust, a keen string player...

Scientist Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Nature, is Michael...

Michael Berkeley welcomes the French actress and former dancer Leslie Caron, who got her big...

Michael Berkeley meets the theatre director Katie Mitchell, whose often controversial...

Michael Berkeley welcomes children's author Michael Morpurgo, whose 1982 novel War Horse,...

Michael Berkeley meets Turner Prize-nominated conceptual artist and film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood,...

Michael Berkeley is joined by DJ, producer, remixer and garage artist MJ Cole, whose debut...

Michael Berkeley welcomes stand-up comedian, musician and actor Bill Bailey, star of the...

Michael Berkeley is joined by award-winning theatre director Deborah Warner, whose productions...

Michael Berkeley's guest today is Vincent Cable, Deputy Leader and chief economic spokesperson...

Michael Berkeley welcomes interior designer John Stefanidis, whose work is internationally...

Today Michael Berkeley meets drummer Stewart Copeland, former member of the Police, and now a...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin, whose Inspector Rebus novels have...

Michael Berkeley talks to hypnotist, TV personality and personal development guru Paul McKenna,...

Michael Berkeley welcomes consultant rheumatologist Dr Christopher Wynn Parry, who specialises...

Michael Berkeley talks to Lebanese-born writer Hanan al-Shaykh, whose novels deal with the...

Michael Berkeley talks to Mark Haddon, whose best-selling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog...

Michael Berkeley talks to the actor Imogen Stubbs, who has starred in many stage productions at...

Michael Berkeley welcomes Anthony Bolton, one of the most respected and successful investment...

Michael Berkeley talks to Sue Perkins, co-star with Giles Coren of BBC's The Supersizers Go and...

Another chance to hear Michael Berkeley talking to rock star and film composer Rick Wakeman. He...

Michael Berkeley welcomes writer and broadcaster Sarah Dunant, a former presenter of BBC2's The...

Michael Berkeley welcomes award-winning theatrical designer Richard Hudson, who has worked at...

Michael Berkeley welcomes actor Jeremy Northam, who played Mr Knightley opposite Gwyneth...

Michael Berkeley is joined by award-winning novelist and composer Amit Chaudhuri, who also...

Michael Berkeley welcomes former Cabinet minister Michael Portillo, who since leaving the...