Private Passions

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Private Passions Podcast

Discussion & Talk

Music: Classical

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives

Private Passions: Libby Jackson

Libby Jackson

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, Libby Jackson

Michael Berkeley's guest is Libby Jackson from the UK Space Agency.

Michael Berkeley's guest is Libby Jackson, the head of Space Exploration at the UK Space Agency.

Libby Jackson is the head of Space Exploration for the UK Space Agency.  She has turned a childhood passion for space into a wide-ranging career. She was flight instructor and controller at Europe’s Mission Control Centre for the International Space Station. She then joined the UK Space Agency in 2014 and led their education programme when the astronaut Tim Peake went into space. She is now one of Britain’s leading experts in human spaceflight, and last year was awarded an OBE for her work.   

Libby’s musical passions reflect the vast wonder of space but also her love of choral music and her adventures in Newfoundland as a teenager with works by Handel, Verdi and Shanneyganock.

Producer Clare Walker

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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