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Radio 3,25 Jan 2026,54 mins

Paul Chahidi

Private Passions

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Paul Chahidi is an actor whose versatility shines through in prize-winning performances from Shakespeare to satire. He delighted West End and Broadway audiences as Maria in Twelfth Night and won acclaim from filmgoers as the hapless Nikolai Bulganin in The Death of Stalin. On TV, he鈥檚 played a well-meaning vicar in the BAFTA-winning This Country, an archangel in Good Omens, and he鈥檚 currently a spook in the 麻豆社 thriller The Night Manager. Such shape-shifting came early: Paul was born Ghiv Khatib-Chahidi in Iran before moving as a child to the Oxford countryside. He studied Arabic and Persian at university with an eye to becoming a foreign correspondent, before the lure of Shakespeare and Sondheim won him over. His choices include music from Iran, as well as Vaughan Williams, Chopin, Beethoven and Palestrina. Presenter Michael Berkeley Producer Katy Hickman

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