Private Passions Clips

1. Keir Starmer: "Music is an escape for me"

   Duration: 02:03

2. "I had to pinch myself, I was so excited..."

   Duration: 02:35

3. 'The cleanest air in the world'

   Duration: 00:37

4. Philip Glass's advice

   Duration: 00:18

5. Magic, dragons and whale shapeshifting on a Norwegian expedition

   Duration: 00:45

6. Discovering a whole world of music

   Duration: 00:20

7. A physicist's guide to drinking champagne

   Duration: 00:28

8. A vivid recollection of Hitler

   Duration: 00:24

9. When Jane Birkin met Serge Gainsbourg for the first time...

   Duration: 01:53

10. Michael Frayn on a hair-raising premiere

    Duration: 00:43

11. A run in with the KGB

    Duration: 01:12

12. Jammin with Sonny Rollins at Ronnie Scott's

    Duration: 00:54

13. The storming of the Tsar's wine cellar

    Duration: 01:11

14. 'This period is harsh, it’s bloody, it’s savage'

    Duration: 00:43

15. 'Introspection and self-pity weren’t encouraged in prison'

    Duration: 00:50

16. Maurice Riordan's advice for wannabe poets

    Duration: 00:56

17. Stephen Poliakoff on the joy of box sets

    Duration: 01:46

18. Novelist Sebastian Barry on writing the protagonist

    Duration: 01:14

19. How Gwyneth Glyn got Aled Jones to play her Christmas concert

    Duration: 00:29

20. "Music is much closer to us emotionally than art is"

    Duration: 00:50

21. "It was absolutely unforgettable" - watching Édith Piaf perform

    Duration: 02:28

22. Learn how to call like a cuckoo

    Duration: 00:47

23. The "arms race" between cuckoos and reed warblers

    Duration: 02:29

24. Shirley Hughes on the problems of modern childhood

    Duration: 01:33