Billy Bragg

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Living Legend Billy Bragg joins James O'Brien on this week's episode of Full Disclosure. The Barking born, rock & roll raised, English icon takes us on a tour of a lifetime of activism: from the mining strike, the rise (& calamitous fall) of the BNP, right up to the Brexit fallout, Bragg has seen and campaigned against it all. Full Disclosure is an in depth interview series chatting to the world's most fascinating people, hosted by James O'Brien. Rate and subscribe on Global Player or wherever you get your podcasts and connect with James on Twitter: @mrjamesob

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm currently out of office.
0:04.3	An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.
0:14.4	So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science.
0:22.4	Yours, Toby.
0:24.2	Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday.
0:29.0	Atul protected.
0:30.1	This is a global original podcast.
0:36.1	Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Full Disclosure, a podcast series designed pretty much entirely to let me meet people that I either haven't met before or would just like to find out more about.
0:47.2	Billy Bragg fits squarely into the second category.
0:50.6	Nice to see you, Bill.
0:51.9	Now an author, of course, as well as a musician and activist.
0:56.3	But we'll begin at the beginning.
0:57.7	Yeah, why not?
0:58.3	When did you become Billy?
0:59.6	Is your first name, Stephen?
1:00.5	Yeah, it is.
1:01.5	William's my middle name.
1:02.4	It's my grandfather's name.
1:03.5	And during punk rock, I was in a band with a lot of mates of mine, and we were kind of
1:08.5	called Stephen.
1:09.5	It was a bit confusing. So we all sort of had to find different names.
1:14.2	And Billy Bragg has a certain alliteration to it.
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