Private Passions

Louisa Young, writer

Sylvester McCoy, actor

Lyse Doucet, journalist

Carlos Acosta, dancer

Leslie Cavendish, former Beatles hairdresser

John Nichol, writer, former RAF Navigator

Ruth Ozeki, writer

Jeremy Vine, broadcaster

Jeremy Vine reflects on a decades-long career in broadcasting, tracing his path from early radio experiments and newspaper journalism to high-stakes reporting in war zones and political coverage at Westminster. Music serves as a central narrative thread, functioning as a sensory catalyst that anchors memories of his ch...

Sofka Zinovieff, writer

Simon Barnes, journalist

Margaret Busby, publisher and editor

Michael Wood, historian

James Aldred, cameraman and writer

Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu, chemist

Dietmar Mueller-Elmau, entrepreneur

Rachel Eliza Griffiths, poet and novelist

Francis Spufford, writer

Sir Ian Blatchford, Science Museum director

George Saunders, writer

Penny Woolcock, film director