May 29, 2021
Today, Australian broadcasting legend Stan
Grant joins me to talk about friend of the show
Jonathan Wilson’s quasi-debut ‘Gentle Spirit’.
Stan opens up about how he discovered the record while dealing with
PTSD and the emotional fall out of years embedded in war zones as a
foreign correspondent.
We talk about how...
May 20, 2021
Singer-songwriter and man
probably coming out of your car radio right now JP
Saxe joins me for a surprising favorite album pick - jazz
piano legend Keith Jarrett’s 1975 live album “The
Köln Concert”.
We talk about the strange backstory behind the album - a dyspeptic
artist, a teenage concert promoter, the wrong...
May 13, 2021
Today, film journalist, author and Empire podcast geek queen
Helen O’Hara joins me to dig into her epic new
book, Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film.
We talk about how the research and writing process was effected by
the pandemic, choosing which topics to cover, the forgotten early
female...
May 5, 2021
Today, the great Dominic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings, Lost, Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan) joins me for a truly epic deep dive into The Beatles White Album. We get into Dom’s Beatles origin story, his conflicted feelings about John Lennon, how the album is an audition for the Beatles respective solo careers, his...