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Caleb Azumah Nelson

Award-winning novelist Caleb Azumah Nelson joins Lauren. His first book, Open Water, won the Costa First Novel Award and was a number-one Times bestseller.

Award-winning novelist Caleb Azumah Nelson joins Lauren. His first book, Open Water, won the Costa First Novel Award and was a number-one Times bestseller. His new book Small Worlds is out now, described as an exhilarating new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship.

Also, a listener takes us to a year in their musical life in 6 Music Goes Back.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Wed 2 Aug 202308:30
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Strokes

    Reptilia

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Queens of the Stone Age

    Paper Machete

    • Matador.

  • Jessie Ware & Róisín Murphy

    Freak Me Now

    • That! Feels Good!.
    • EMI.

  • Loyle Carner

    Yesterday

    • Virgin / EMI.

  • Killer Mike

    Scientists & Engineers (feat. Future, André 3000 & Eryn Allen Kane)

    • Loma Vista.

  • Nitin Sawhney & Hak Baker

    Ancestral

  • Maxïmo Park

    Girls Who Play Guitars

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Warp Records.

  • SPRINTS

    Adore Adore Adore

    • City Slang.

  • LTJ Bukem

    Horizons

    • Looking Good Records ‎.

  • Nazia Hassan

    Khushi

    • Late Night Tales: Khruangbin.
    • Late Night Tales.
    • 3.

  • Kalyanji-Anandji

    Theme From Don

  • The Smashing Pumpkins

    Hummer

    • Siamese Dream (2011 - Remaster).
    • Virgin Records.
    • 4.

  • Massive Attack

    Unfinished Sympathy

    • Virgin.

  • The Streets

    Troubled Waters

    • Warner.

  • Aretha Franklin

    I Say A Little Prayer

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Jalen Ngonda

    Come Around and Love Me

    • Daptone.

  • Working Men’s Club

    John Cooper Clarke

    • Heavenly ·.

  • Blur

    St. Charles Square

    • Parlophone.

  • The A's

    When I Die

    • Fruit.
    • Bandcamp.
    • 9.

  • Tom Tom Club

    Wordy Rappinghood

    • Single.
    • Island.

  • The Smiths

    Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want

    • Warner Bros..

  • Antony Szmierek

    The Words to Auld Lang Syne

    • LAB Records.

  • Da Brat

    Funkdafied

    • ANUTHAFUNKDAFIEDTANTRUM.
    • So So Def/Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Cheated Hearts

    • Fiction.

Broadcast

  • Wed 2 Aug 202308:30
    BBC Radio 6 Music