Private Passions: Philippa Perry

Psychotherapist and author Philippa Perry talks to Michael Berkeley about the power of music to shape our emotions and tell the stories of our lives.

Philippa left school at 15 and did all sorts of jobs before training as a psychotherapist and becoming a best-selling author, agony-aunt and broadcaster.

In Private Passions, Philippa talks to Michael Berkeley about her 30-year marriage to the artist Grayson Perry, and discusses her personal musical choices.

Philippa selects music by Shostakovich that surprised and delighted her at this year’s Proms, an aria from La Traviata which broke through her father’s dementia as well as works by Beethoven and Chopin.

• A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3

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