Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:11- Stackwaddy Quiz: double-barrelled names
06:41 - Indie Forever
14:06 - The Rolling Stones
20:03 - Kevin Rowland and life's third act
31:05 - Paul Gambaccini
33:14 - Wimbledon
39:35 - Birthday Guest Patrick Butler

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As this week’s news hurtles over the net, we sort the aces from the double-faults. The final score …

… Madonna, Shakira, Chris Martin and World Cup 11-minute half-time overload!

… how many Stones albums were “the best since Exile On Main Street”?

… Kevin Rowland’s heart-breaking songs about Life’s Third Act

… 10 good reasons to miss the Nineties

… Country & Western is about travelling through the vast geography of America. “Go 200 miles in Britain and you fall off the edge”

… Florian Pilkington-Miksa, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond: rock’s real (or invented?) double-barrelled names

… how “travel and never arrive” is the new entertainment experience

… plus Sly Stone’s Babies Makin’ Babies, the comforting cry of “Gambo’s in the building!” and birthday guest Patrick Butler.