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Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

Billy Bragg - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #22

Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

Scroobius Pip

656826, News, Comedy, Interviews, Music, Scroobius Pip, Interview

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

The second part of this week's double bill is none-other than Barking, Essex's finest Mr Billy Bragg. Billy and Pip discuss everything from Billy's love of the Mince pie, Billy's ongoing political activism and how the singer-songwriter worked his way up through London's pubs and clubs to become a national treasure.

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome and Thrice, welcome.

0:04.6

This is the distraction pieces podcast.

0:06.4

My name is Scruvius Pip.

0:07.7

You can find me at at Scruvius Pip.io.

0:10.7

This week's guest, it's Mr. Billy Bragg.

0:15.0

It blows my mind that we even got to sit down

0:16.9

and have this chat.

0:17.7

It blows my mind that I can contact someone

0:19.5

like, I Billy Bragg and say,

0:21.2

you fancy coming on the podcast for a bit

0:23.3

and he says, yeah, and it happens.

0:26.3

He's genuinely a legend.

0:28.7

It's amazing to get to talk to him.

0:30.1

But before we get to that, actually,

0:31.3

so I need to do the sponsors, we've got to pay them

0:33.7

then bills, we've got to charge other people

0:35.8

so you can listen to this for free.

0:37.6

One of them is speechdevelopmentreccles.com.

0:41.2

That's my label.

0:42.6

You can go there to support us.

0:44.2

You can go to speechdevelopmentareccles.com

0:46.3

or scruviuspip.co.uk.

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