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I am the EggPod

21: London Town - David Quantick

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Arts, History, Performing Arts, Music, Music Commentary

4.8467 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Emmy Award winning writer, David Quantick, discusses Wings' London Town with Chris Shaw.

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One, two, three, four.

0:04.0

One, two, three, four.

0:06.0

Ah! Hello and welcome to I am the Egg Pod with me Chris Shaw.

0:33.9

The Eggpods take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland, discussing the Beatles and

0:38.0

solo Beatle albums with a popery of delicious guests. In this episode, I'm delighted to welcome back

0:43.6

Emmy Award-winning journalist, radio and screenwriter, David Quantick. Hello, Chris. Nice to be

0:50.3

back. Lovely to have you here. Thank you. A lot's happened since we last met.

0:55.2

You've published your novel, All My Colours.

0:58.2

That's right, yeah.

0:59.3

And also working on a musical with Jonathan Coe and Mike Bat.

1:03.0

Yes, the Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the musical.

1:05.8

Long title.

1:06.6

Yeah, it's written.

1:08.4

We're just looking for, if you're very rich and listening to this,

1:12.3

yeah, we'd like some money to go forward with it. We need backers and things like that.

1:17.4

But it's really good. It's done with the permission of David Knob's, the writer's estate.

1:23.5

And yeah, it's a mixture of the books and the TV series and Mike Bat's songs are fantastic.

1:28.6

So, yeah, that's mostly what I've been doing and some other things as well, which I can't talk about yet.

1:34.4

Superb.

1:38.9

Mm.

1:41.9

Hmm.

1:42.9

Mm. The album you've picked is Wings'

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