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Private Passions

on BBC Radio 3

Michael Berkeley talks to
Christopher Potter , publishing director of Fourth Estate, whose portfolio of well-known authors includes Dava Sobel , Annie Proulx ,
Carol Shields and Matt Ridley. His choices range from songs by Schubert, Sibelius and Strauss to excerpts from Wagner's
Gotterdammerung, Ligeti's Le Grand
Macabre and Mozart's La Clemenza di
Tito, an airfrom Offenbach's operetta La Perichole, and Elsa Lanchester singing Foreman Brown 's The Yashmak Song. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Rptd tomorrow 6.30pm

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Christopher Potter
Unknown:
Dava Sobel
Unknown:
Annie Proulx
Unknown:
Carol Shields
Unknown:
Matt Ridley.
Unknown:
Elsa Lanchester
Unknown:
Foreman Brown
Producer:
Wendy Thompson

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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