Private Passions Clips
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'The cleanest air in the world'
Duration: 00:37
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Philip Glass's advice
Duration: 00:18
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Magic, dragons and whale shapeshifting on a Norwegian expedition
Duration: 00:45
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Discovering a whole world of music
Duration: 00:20
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A physicist's guide to drinking champagne
Duration: 00:28
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A vivid recollection of Hitler
Duration: 00:24
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When Jane Birkin met Serge Gainsbourg for the first time...
Duration: 01:53
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Michael Frayn on a hair-raising premiere
Duration: 00:43
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A run in with the KGB
Duration: 01:12
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Jammin with Sonny Rollins at Ronnie Scott's
Duration: 00:54
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The storming of the Tsar's wine cellar
Duration: 01:11
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'This period is harsh, it鈥檚 bloody, it鈥檚 savage'
Duration: 00:43
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'Introspection and self-pity weren鈥檛 encouraged in prison'
Duration: 00:50
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Maurice Riordan's advice for wannabe poets
Duration: 00:56
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Stephen Poliakoff on the joy of box sets
Duration: 01:46
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Novelist Sebastian Barry on writing the protagonist
Duration: 01:14
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How Gwyneth Glyn got Aled Jones to play her Christmas concert
Duration: 00:29
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"Music is much closer to us emotionally than art is"
Duration: 00:50
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"It was absolutely unforgettable" - watching 脡dith Piaf perform
Duration: 02:28
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Learn how to call like a cuckoo
Duration: 00:47
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The "arms race" between cuckoos and reed warblers
Duration: 02:29
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Shirley Hughes on the problems of modern childhood
Duration: 01:33
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Writing women in patriarchal ancient Rome
Duration: 01:29
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Dan Pearson: "Learning to garden with nature, not against"
Duration: 01:33