Editing Michael Berkeley (section)

==Broadcasting==
Berkeley is also known as a television and radio broadcaster on music. Between 1974 and 1979 he worked for [[BBC Radio 3]] as a staff [[Continuity (broadcasting)|continuity announcer]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Who's Who on Radio |last= Tracy |first=Sheila |publisher=World's Work Ltd |year=1983 |page=11|isbn=0-437-17600-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= The Envy of the World|last = Carpenter |first = Humphrey|publisher=Phoenix |year=1997 |page=276|isbn=0-75380-250-3}}</ref> Also on Radio   he contributed to ''Record Review'' (1972–77) and was a regular presenter of ''Mainly for Pleasure'' (1980–92) <ref>{{cite book |title= The Envy of the World|last = Carpenter |first = Humphrey|publisher=Phoenix |year=1997 |page=305|isbn=0-75380-250-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=asc&q=%22michael+berkeley%22+%2B%22mainly+for+pleasure%22#search|title = BBC Genome Project|access-date = 1 December 2019|work = Mainly for Pleasure}}</ref> and ''In Tune'' (1992–93).

Since 1995 Berkeley has presented BBC Radio 3's ''[[Private Passions]]'',<ref name="Moss"/> in which celebrities are invited to choose and discuss several pieces of music. In December 1997, one of his guests was a 112-year-old Viennese percussionist called Manfred Sturmer, who told anecdotes about [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], [[Clara Schumann]], [[Richard Strauss]], [[Arnold Schoenberg]] and others so realistically that some listeners did not realise that the whole thing was a [[hoax]] perpetrated by Berkeley and [[John Sessions]]. On 30 December 2018, [[Charles III|King Charles]], when [[Prince of Wales]], was the guest on ''Private Passions'', in order to mark the passing of over one thousand editions of the programme, and to celebrate the prince's 70th birthday.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001ss2 | title = Private Passions: HRH The Prince of Wales | access-date = 3 April 2019}}</ref>