I was recently a guest on Richard Holloway’s Sunday Morning programme, talking about my life and work and choosing three of my favourite musical tracks. It was like Desert Island Discs, but with more talk and less music. And since that’s the closest I will probably ever get to Desert Island Discs, I thought I might as well choose my own favourite eight tracks. Choosing three tracks for the Richard Holloway show was impossibly difficult, choosing eight has been barely […]

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