Radio Days Book Club
Conversations with authors from the worlds of sport and entertainment. Join us (after the lockdown...) at our live events in London, Brighton and across the south east. Hosted by Duncan Steer.
Podcasting since 2020 • 15 episodes
Radio Days Book Club
Latest Episodes
Matt Rendell: ITV Tour de France commentator, author, man on mission
ITV Tour de France commentator and general polymath Matt Rendell joins me to discuss some things that never make it into our live talk shows. Why is ITV like the social services? Did Matt really sell his house to finance one of his books (and, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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60 Years of the Rolling Stones, with Lesley-Ann Jones
Lesley-Ann Jones discusses The Stone Age, her biography of the self-styled greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.Lesley-Ann Jones interviewed hundreds of insiders and eye witnesses to create the biography. As a friend of Bill Wyman in t...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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46:57
Lost gems of 1960s pop television, with Kevin Mulrennan
Kevin Mulrennan has compiled a 700-page encyclopaedia of ITV's 60s pop show Thank Your Lucky Stars. He joins us to recall great lost moments of the Beatles - as well as the stars who burned brightly but briefly.
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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42:01
12. Baxter Dury on his wild West London childhood
Baxter Dury joined us at a live event in Chiswick, to discuss his new memoir, Chaise Longue. Now an acclaimed musician in his own right, Baxter recalls a seemingly chaotic 70s and 80s childhood, growing up as the son of pop star and national tr...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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38:24
Nick Lowe and Will Birch on Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, punk rock and Peters and Lee.
Nick Lowe and Will Birch joined me at a live event at the Seven Dials Club to discuss Cruel to be Kind, Will's biography of Nick. Nick reflects on dealings with Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello and, well, Peters and Lee, why 1962 was...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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