Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
06:20 - Country Joe
15:26 - Man on the Run
26:33 - Destination gigs
34:21 - Timothée Chalamet
40:14 - Any Other Business with Alex Gold
52:35 - Birthday Guest Avi Chaudhuri

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Watering the scented hedgerows of news to see if any green shoots appear. And they do, in the form of …

… the most effective protest song ever written

… the commendable box-ticking life of Country Joe McDonald

… the Timothée Chalamet ding-dong: is it still safe to voice an opinion?

… Harry Styles’ 67 dates in just 7 locations: how ‘Destination gigs’ throttle the competition

… was Wings a worse name than the Beatles? And McCartney as a shepherd: discuss

… what makes a song work as a football chant?

... the most unusual things we've heard sung by crowds

…. Stormfront, Gothic Serpent, Midnight Hammer, Rolling Thunder … album title or US military campaign?

… why we love improv theatre

… when Champion Jack Dupree lived in Halifax and Kid Creole in Rotherham

… plus barrelhouse blues piano, ‘inflicting’ music on people and birthday guest Avi Chaudhuri & rock music as community singing.