The White House garden marks a victory for people like Professor Michael Pollan of the University of California,Berkeley.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

Michael Barnett is a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California and one of the people behind The Particle Adventure.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

Composer and broadcaster Michael Berkeley will also get a peerage, the independent House of Lords Appointments Commission announced.

BBC: Digital boss Martha Lane Fox to get peerage

The composer and broadcaster Michael Berkeley is to be made a non-party political peer in the House of Lords.

BBC: Composer Michael Berkeley to become Lord

The Lords (2.30pm) begin with the introduction of two new peers - Martha Lane Fox, who was appointed to be the UK Digital Champion, advising the government on the online delivery of public services, and the composer and broadcaster, Michael Berkeley.

BBC: Week ahead