Episodes
Two studio pilots recorded, and a two-season slate written. Each note below sets out the songs, the people and the ideas the episode reads.
- London in Two Great Decades of MusicA close reading of London across two decades of song. The Kinks' ‘Waterloo Sunset’ and ‘Ape Man’ set against The Clash's ‘London Calling’ — Ray Davies at the window of St Thomas' Hospital, the real bridge Terry and Julie cross (Westminster, or Hungerford?), Joe Strummer's Battersea, and how a city writes itself into its records.
- Deadly Women — the femme fatale in songThe femme fatale — with an S, because there's more than one. Four songs across three decades read for the deadly woman, from The Walker Brothers to Nico and The Velvet Underground, Queen and Space.