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‘I’ve seen controllers come and go’: Radio 3’s Michael Berkeley interviewed

The presenter and composer discusses his godfather Benjamin Britten, having Isaiah Berlin on Private Passions, and Pope Francis

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The Berkeley family in 1982: Lady Freda, Sir Lennox and their son Michael VICTOR WATTS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
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