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Musicals galore from Radio 4 Extra
Radio 4 Extra
BBC Radio 4 Extra is delighted to announce a five-week Summer run of classic musicals. We’ve been given access to Radio 2’s extensive – and impressive – back-catalogue of exclusively recorded works, from the mid-90s.
Queens of Noise - Get It On
Roy Boulter
Writer
‘Queens Of Noise – Get It On’ is the story of all-girl band Velveteens as they clamber up the slippery slope to success in the late 80s /early 90s based on fact, by writers - Roy Boulter and Louise Wener.
Frank Zappa and Me
Pauline Butcher
Author
In 1967 Pauline Butcher, then a 21-year-old secretary, was sent to a London hotel on a typing assignment. The client turned out to be avant-garde American musician Frank Zappa.
The BBC vs Rock: What Auntie Really Thought About 5 Future Music Icons
Radio 4
In the 1950s and 60s every band played on BBC Radio had to first audition in front of the forbidding Talent Selection Group. Safe to say, Auntie’s gatekeepers weren’t impressed with this bunch of musical blow-ins (to be fair, many in the early stages of their careers). Read the audition notes…
Book of the Week - Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter
Alyn Shipton
Writer, Broadcaster, Jazz Historian
Writer, broadcaster and Jazz historian Alyn Shipton discusses why he was compelled to write new biography Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter.
Feedback: Radio 3 Concerts
Roger Bolton
Roger discusses how Radio 3 keep their concert interval interesting.
The Story of 'I Dressed Ziggy Stardust'
Samira Ahmed
Broadcaster
Broadcaster and Presenter Samira Ahmed discusses the influence of David Bowie throughout her life, and his particular appeal for British Asian women.
Tracey Thorn: Bedsit Disco Queen
Tracey Thorn
Tracey Thorn describes why she wrote her memoir, 'Bedsit Disco Queen' which takes in teenage diaries and punk, the resilience of her 30-year relationship with Ben Watt, pop star success, and giving it all up for motherhood.
Lyrical Journeys: 'A13, Trunk Road to the Sea'
Billy Bragg
Singer/Songwriter
Proud Essex boy Billy Bragg uses his poetic licence to fashion an homage to the tarmacked beauty of the A13. A road which heads east from Whitechapel in the heart of the East End alongside the Thames for forty miles until it hits the wide sands of Shoeburyness.
Earworms
Michelle Martin
My name is Shaun Keaveny, I am a music broadcaster, and a long-term sufferer of a sometimes debilitating condition. It is devastatingly virulent, indiscriminate, and can strike the patient down at any time, anywhere. It is the Earworm. An earworm is a parasitic little fragment of music that b...
