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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…
3 years 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 …
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years ago
Word In The Park 2023: 60 years of the Stones with Lesley-Ann Jones
Episode 533
It’s a barely believable sixty years since the Rolling Stones put out their first single, “Come On”, so we asked Lesley-Ann Jones, the author of “The…
3 years ago
What bands are becoming unfashionable?
Episode 532
This week’s rock and roll gumbo includes the following spicy and nutritious ingredients …
… “the internet is designed to let middle-aged men think th…
3 years ago
Which is the most two-faced world - movies, music or daytime TV?
Episode 531
Fond and appraising enquiry of recent events, this week featuring …
… we now feel we have to approve of artists/musicians/writers before we can say w…
3 years ago
Farewell Tina Turner – “all you needed was Nutbush City Limits and a Watneys Party 7”
Episode 530
A special extra podcast recorded just after hearing the news. We can barely remember a time when we weren’t aware of her. This looks back at the Ike …
3 years ago
Robert Johnson, Shakespeare and the rock star image of Martin Amis
Episode 529
Put through the boil-wash of enquiry and hung upon the washing line of truth this week you’ll find the following one-size-fits-all garments …
… which…
3 years ago
Is there a more annoying rhyme than “arms” and “charms”?
Episode 528
Further nutritious items on the pod’s tasting menu this week include …
… the story of Tubular Bells and how the Exorcist sent its sales through the r…
3 years, 1 month ago