Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is Indian novelist Vikram Seth , author of the acclaimed bestseller
A Suitable Boy. The hero of Seth's latest novel, An Equal Music, is a member of a string quartet, and the author himself has written the libretto for Alec Roth 's opera Arion and the Dolphin, a short excerpt from which features in his Private
Passions selection. His fascinating and varied choices also include songs by Schubert and the Beach
Boys, instrumental works by Vivaldi, Bach and Weber, and a duet between a nightingale and a muntjac recorded in a Warwickshire wood.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm