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Michael Berkeley welcomes the lively TV historian and Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley. Her popular TV series 'If Walls Could Talk: A History of the Home' found her peering into the forgotten domestic corners of history, finding out how people in past centuries really lived - how they slept, ate, cooked, bathed and disposed of their waste - by recreating the experience. She has also presented 'Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency' for ´óÏó´«Ã½4.

Lucy takes an equally practical, no-nonsense approach to music, and unusually, her choices for 'Private Passions' are nearly all pieces she has played or sung herself. They range from piano works by Erik Satie, Mozart, Bach and Liszt, to Verdi's Requiem (in which she sang as a tenor!) ; Jerome Kern's 'Long ago', which she performed at a Society of Antiquaries' dinner when she took the injunction to 'sing for her supper' quite literally; and Joseph Winner's Little Brown Jug, in which she has played the tenor sax solo in a big band arrangement.