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Hello and welcome to The Spectator's Book Club podcast.

I'm Sam Leith, the literary editor to The Spectator.

And this week I'm joined by Colin Greenwood, who is a musician, a writer, a photographer,

an occasional critic for the Spectator, I'm pleased to say,

and also the bass guitarist in the band Radiohead, among his many other accomplishments.

His new book is a collection of his photography called How to Disappear a Portrait of Radiohead.

And it's accompanied by 10,000 words or so of fascinating text that gives you an insight into, as it were, for Radiohead fans, how the sausage is made. Colin, welcome. Can he start

telling me, how long has photography been a part of what you do? Is it a sort of twin track?

Well, in terms of Radiohead, it's been an interest that I've had, I guess, since we've

started, because my oldest friend, Charlotte Cotton, who was a curator with Mark Hayworth

Booth at the Victorian Albert Museum in the mid-90s. I used to go there when she was working

and she was kind enough to put time aside

to show me the collection. And it's always been something that I've been interested in. I think,

you know, I had a little plastic Kodak box camera when I grew up in Oakley in Oxfordshire when

was a kid. And of course, being in a band and having some kind of scrutiny,

you end up, you know, with the publicity departments of parlophone records

or capital records in L.A., having these, you know, visual inputs.

You have as photographers.

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