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Romola Garai

Michael Berkeley's guest is the actor and director Romola Garai.

Romola Garai won her first professional acting roles as a teenager, and since then, her career has taken her in a wide range of dramatic directions.

Most recently, she won a 2025 Olivier Award for her role in The Years, a sometimes shocking play based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux 鈥� and she was competing against herself, with a nomination in the same category for her part in Giant, a play about Roald Dahl.

Her previous stage work includes playing Cordelia opposite Ian McKellen鈥檚 King Lear, and her extensive screen credits include the title role in a 成人快手 adaptation of Jane Austen鈥檚 Emma. She also won acclaim for The Hour, a drama set behind the scenes of a TV current affairs programme in the 1950s. In 2020, she went behind the camera to write and direct a horror film called Amulet.

Romola's music choices include John Taverner, Handel and Keith Jarrett.

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Music Played

  • Michael Nyman

    Prospero's Magic (Prospero's Books)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jonathan Carney.
    • Michael Nyman.
    • Documents.
    • 8.

  • Keith Jarrett

    Vienna, Part I

    Performer: Keith Jarrett.
    • Vienna Concert.
    • ECM Records.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: Minuet

    Orchestra: Collegium Aureum.
    • Collegium Aureum-Edition.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 18.

  • John Tavener

    The Protecting Veil: I. The Protecting Veil

    • Lionel Martin performs Tavener.
    • SWR Classic.
    • 1.

  • Florian Fricke

    Aguirre I (l'acrime di rei)

    Composer: Popol Vuh.
    • Aguirre (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • BMG Rights Management GmbH.
    • 1.

  • Trad.

    Am I Born To Die?

    Music Arranger: Anthony Minghella. Music Arranger: Henry Burnett.
    • Cold Mountain (Music From the Miramax Motion Picture).
    • DMZ/Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax.
    • 7.

  • Alexander B膬l膬nescu

    Aria

    Ensemble: B膬l膬nescu Quartet.
    • Maria T (Reissue).
    • Universal Music Romania.
    • 7.

  • Paul Brady

    The Lakes of Pontchartrain

    • Welcome Here Kind Stranger.
    • PeeBee Music.
    • 4.

Broadcast

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    成人快手 Radio 3

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