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Fancy going for a spin with us? ‘Cos we’re about to head off in this ole, beat up Cadillac. Laura Barton is at the wheel and she’s got the windows down and the radio up. Jon’s nodding seriously to the majestic growl of Johnny Cash and Tommy’s got his head out the window, forcing air up his nose like a blood hound. And we’re here and we’re alive and just shooting the breeze about sad songs, rock stars, lost love, writing, Betjeman, Springsteen, journalism, and turnips… for some reason. Yeah. I’m not entirely sure why, but turnips seem to… crop up, so… 

Laura's new book - Sad Songs
https://www.waterstones.com/book/sad-songs/laura-barton/9781529406948

Laura's BBC "Notes on music" 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000t4t5

Laura's sad songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElygSMtokAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP6a-7MP91g

Jon's sad song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhDnyPsQsB0

Tom's sad song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVfaf43W9cM

Some other things that crop up:

The amazing producers of ‘Notes’
http://www.fallingtree.co.uk/about/

Rebecca Solnit;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Solnit

Laura’s novel, Twenty-One Locks:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/twenty-one-locks/laura-barton/9780857381217

Shape note singing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyrUhdBHOg8

Cold Mountain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Mountain_(film)

John Betjeman & Jim Parker’s Banana Blush Album
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lCyv7pJrrVekvs4QdgFQfNYwwEb3XS9w0

How to grow really nice turnips
https://www.rhs.org.uk/vegetables/turnips/grow-your-own