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Cathi Unsworth was a teenage goth. Think “Robert Smith’s tarantula hair” and “cider like turps”
Episode 543
Growing up in remote rural Norfolk, crime writer Cathi Unsworth had a Goth conversion, a condition from which, she happily admits, you never fully re…
2 years, 6 months ago
Wham!, Rock Follies and lost ‘70s prog foot-soldiers Renia – we will remember them!
Episode 542
Filling the spinnaker of enquiry on the careering, two-mast schooner of rock and roll this week you will find …
… the prog drummer who made a fortune…
2 years, 6 months ago
Cocteau Twins song or Farrow & Ball paint colour? plus the day Beatlemania began
Episode 541
This week we paddle the two-man kayak of curiosity across the rock and roll seafront and make a few stops on the way, among them …
… “the future is a…
2 years, 6 months ago
Grotesque/brilliant sleeves plus does upping the price make a ticket more desirable?
Episode 540
Sizzling hot topics patted back and forth across the ping-pong net of conversation this week include …
… the republishing of Giles Smith’s Lost In Mus…
2 years, 6 months ago
Harvey Lisberg – managing 10cc, meeting Elvis and “Peter Noone’s extra tooth”
Episode 539
Aged 21 in 1963, Harvey Lisberg wanted to be the next Brian Epstein and ended up managing Herman’s Hermits and 10cc, among others, before relaunching…
2 years, 6 months ago
Record shops in movies and what Glenda Jackson did that no other actor ever dared try
Episode 538
This week’s pod veers off the conversational highway to break out its picnic hamper at the following leafy locations ….
… the Stackwaddy game: metal …
2 years, 7 months ago
Revenge songs, Nick Drake and that sorry tale about Primal Scream
Episode 537
The super-trouper of gentle enquiry alights this week upon …
… why bands are at their biggest when they’re over the hill.
… Fats Waller v Morrissey s…
2 years, 7 months ago
Word In The Park 2023 #4 – Clare Grogan's adventures in TV, film and music
Episode 536
Forty years ago Clare Grogan was on the cover of Smash Hits yet again and was the fourth guest at our garden party on June 3. Here she remembers the …
2 years, 7 months ago
Word In The Park 2023: How the Beatles and James Bond shaped us all
Episode 535
The first record by the Beatles came out on the same day as the first James Bond film. Over sixty years later they still send their differing forms o…
2 years, 7 months ago
Word In The Park 2023 #2 – 60 years of the Bee Gees with Bob Stanley
Episode 534
Author, DJ, member of St Etienne and a regular on our podcasts, Bob Stanley was the second guest at our sun-baked garden party in the auditorium of O…
2 years, 7 months ago