Private Passions published by Faber & Faber

Michael has presented one of Radio 3's most successful programmes, Private Passions (Sunday at 12 noon), for the last 15 years. The programme is recorded in his house and has included an extraordinarily constrasting list of guests, ranging from Isaiah Berlin to Stewart Copeland, the drummer of the Police, and from the Archbishop of Canterbury to John Bird and Stephen Fry. For a full list of guests and the music they chose, please visit the Private Passions website.

Additionally, the Private Passions book charts the show's first decade, listing all the guests and their choices of music.

The show's signature Tune is The Wakeful Poet from Michael's Music From Chaucer.

• Private Passions at Classic Arts
• Private Passions home page at BBC Radio 3
• Listen to the latest programme on BBC iPlayer