Tim Firth

Published: Jan. 20, 2019, 1 p.m.

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Tim Firth is the man behind the show that captured the nation\\u2019s heart: Calendar Girls, the true story about a Women\\u2019s Institute who produced a naked calendar. It\\u2019s been a film, a play, and is now a musical.

He\\u2019s also responsible for the hugely successful film Kinky Boots, as well as multi-award winning TV shows, films and more musicals including Neville\\u2019s Island, The Flint Street Nativity, Preston Front, and most recently The Band, a collaboration with his long-time friend Gary Barlow and Take That.

But surprisingly there are no songs from musical theatre in Tim\\u2019s choices for Private Passions. Instead he shares with Michael Berkeley his love of Baroque, with music from Bach and from Albinoni (first heard on his honeymoon), and he chooses music by Delius and by Copland that resonates with the folk music he loved as a child.

Tim talks movingly about the emotional impact of music in his life, whether it\\u2019s writing the perfect song for a show or being spellbound by hearing Gorecki for the first time in a forest in the Lake District.

Producer: Jane Greenwood\\nA Loftus production for BBC Radio 3

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