Music Talks
Guests choose a song from each decade of their lives and tell me how they went about making their choices and why these songs mean so much to them . Episodes are published the first Thursday of every month. If you are interested in being a guest on the show please email me at Musictalkspod@outlook.com. You will find additional content around each episode on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/musictalkspod - please 'like' and 'follow' if you can.
Episodes
122 episodes
Episode 100 Part 2 - Terry Smith - The Final Countdown
This is Part 2 of the 100th Episode of Music Talks, which is also the final episode of Music Talks. Five years and 100 episodes felt to me like a good time to bring things to a close. It has been a fantastic, joyful, fulfilling and ...
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Episode 100 Part 1 - Terry Smith - The Final Countdown
This is Part 1 of the 100th Episode of Music Talks, which is also the final episode of Music Talks. Five years and 100 episodes felt to me like a good time to bring things to a close. It has been a fantastic, joyful, fulfilling and ...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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44:48
SPECIAL EDITION - Episode 1 - Steve Clayton - Revisited & Remastered
September 5th will see the 100th and final episode of Music Talks and I know the guest for that episode pretty well as its ……ME!! Given I will be moving chairs I needed someone to be the host of that episode and who better than Stev...
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Season 6
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43:39
Episode 99 - Kevin Clement - Miscellaneous Debris
Welcome to Episode 99 of Music Talks, it’s a significant one with a very special guest. The guest in question is Kevin Clement who amongst other things is the host of the brilliantly named radio show ‘Mysterious Debris’ on Rockin’ the Suburbs R...
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Episode 98 - Nicki Cockburn - I'm A Real Boat Rocker
My guest in this episode is Nicki Cockburn. Nicki now lives in Cardiff but was born in 1978 in Zimbabwe. At 5 months old, after her Mum insisted on a second opinion, she was diagnosed as being blind. For sighted people like me that ...
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Episode 97 - Derrick McCourt - Alive And Kicking (And Running!!)
My guest today is dear friend and an ex-colleague, Derrick Mc Court. Derrick and I first met in 2001 when he joined Microsoft in Ireland. Our paths crossed many times and in many ways over the years and it has always been a pleasure...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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50:53
Episode 96 - Lynn Asher - I Want To Do THAT!!
My guest in this episode is Lynn Asher (
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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59:23
Episode 95 - Claire Sanderson - 'I'll See You In My Dreams'
My guest in this episode is Claire Sanderson who was introduced to the show by an early guest and now a dear friend, Ian Braisby. Claire was born and grew up in Cornwall with her parents and two elder brothers. She describes...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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38:59
Episode 94 - Mark Dempsey - 'I'm a musician not a fan'
My guest in this episode is Mark Dempsey who comes to Music Talks via my dear friend Jesse Jackson at the great Podcast ‘SetLustingBruce’. Like all Springsteen fans Mark is passionate about Bruce’s music but the joy of this episode ...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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57:47
Favourite Albums of 2023 - Part 2
This time of year isn’t just the season of goodwill it’s also the season of “Best Of” lists and it’s part of the musical year that I love. It’s always good to know that things you like are also enjoyed by others but the real ...
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Season 5
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55:52
Favourite Albums of 2023 - Part 1
This time of year isn’t just the season of goodwill it’s also the season of “Best Of” lists and it’s part of the musical year that I love.It’s always good to know that things you like are also enjoyed by others but the real joy for me i...
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55:54
Episode 93 - Gabriel Bergmoser - A Feeling of Possibility
My guest in this episode is award winning author and playwright Gabriel Bergmoser. Gabriel is one of my youngest guests at 32 but, as you will hear, he has packed a lot into those years and he describes himself as ‘crime author, pla...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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54:58
Episode 92 - Paul Webb - The Little Engine That Could
My guest in this episode is Paul Webb who comes to the show via an introduction from a previous guest Nick Sheppard (Ep.53) – Many thanks Nick. Paul is a self-confessed ‘Music Talks Junkie’ and I love the fact that he listen...
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1:09:16
Episode 91 - Giorgos Gavriil - Love Is The Main Thing
My guest in this episode is Giorgos Gavriil who generously allowed me to use his English name of ‘George’ through our chat. Born in 1975 in the port city of Piraeus in Greater Athens, George continues to live in Greece but h...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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48:53
Episode 90 - Craig Colby - All Caps
My guest in this episode is Craig Colby, a master storyteller with a successful 30-year award winning career in television working for The Sports Network and the Discovery Channel amongst others. In 2017, the opportunity of losing h...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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54:51
Episode 89 - Music Talks - Marian Jago - Three Minute Records
My guest in this episode is Marian Jago, Senior Lecturer in Popular Music and Jazz Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Marian comes to Music Talks through the miracle and wonder of social media and a shared love of the music of ...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:06:18
Episode 88 - Bryan McKay - Lana Made Me Late For Work!!
My guest in this episode is Brian MacKay who was introduced to Music Talks by Roy Sharples my guest in Episode 61. (Thanks Roy!) Bryan is just 50 and works in a third sector charity. He lives in Peterhead, a large fish...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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58:56
Episode 87 - Henrik Johnson - A Father of Invention
My guest in this episode is Henrik Johnson, who is my first guest from Sweden. Henrik was born and grew up in a small town called Karlskoga which is between Stockholm and Oslo. Whilst not ‘desperate to get out ‘he left Karlskoga at ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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58:42
Episode 86 - Christina Boubalou - 'I believe in Magic'
My guest on this episode is Christina Boubalou who comes to the show via an introduction from a previous guest Roy Sharples (Ep.61). Thanks for the intro Roy, and your continued support. I’m delighted to say that Christina is my fir...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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47:52
Episode 85 - Mike Palmer - 'It might just make me cry'
My guest in this episode is friend and colleague Mike Palmer. A Middlesborough lad, Mike moved to Manchester in 1984 to study Computing at UMIST where his degree supervisor was Bernard Richards, one of Alan Turing’s last students. M...
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Episode 84 - Penny Power - 'I'm Still Standing'
My guest in this episode is author, speaker & entrepreneur, Penny Power, OBE. I first met Penny in the late 90’s when she had just started the first Social Network, Ecademy with the declared aim of helping business people...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:15:23
Episode 83 - Noury Bernard-Hasan - Play-Rewind-Play-Rewind ......
My guest in this episode has two names! In his day to day life he is Noury Bernard-Hasan , or in true rock star style simply ‘Noury’ to anyone who knows him. However, for the last 15+ years he has also been a semi-professional Blues music...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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53:42
Episode 82 - Ian Wright - Readers Wavs
My guest in this episode is renowned UK illustrator Ian Wright. His work as a commercial illustrator has spanned four decades, starting with his illustrative cover of The Undertones’ Teenage Kicks 7” single in the late 1970s, progre...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:11:19
Favourite Albums of 2022 - Part 2
This time of year isn’t just the season of goodwill it’s also the season of “Best Of” lists and it’s part of the musical year that I love.It’s always good to know that things you like are also enjoyed by others but the real joy for me i...
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1:07:45
Favourite Albums of 2022 - Part 1
This time of year isn’t just the season of goodwill it’s also the season of “Best Of” lists and it’s part of the musical year that I love. It’s always good to know that things you like are also enjoyed by others but the real joy for me ...
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Season 4
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Episode 24
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49:14