Dionne Warwick

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A wide-ranging chat with the legendary Dionne Warwick. Colin talks to the singer who charted 69 times on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with hits like Walk On By, Don’t Make Me Over and Heartbreaker about her life, the people who inspired her and taking time to reflect. Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which is on Monday to Wednesday 10.30pm to 1am - or available whenever you want via the free BBC Sounds app.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself.
0:03.7	My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a Load of Sport Podcasts.
0:08.4	I'm lucky to do that at the BBC because I get to work with a leading journalist, experienced
0:12.2	pundits and the biggest sport stars.
0:14.3	Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights straight from the players'
0:18.5	mouths.
0:19.5	But the best thing about doing this at the BBC is our unique access to the sport world.
0:25.0	What that means is that we can bring you podcasts that create a real connection to
0:28.8	dedicated sports fans across the UK.
0:31.2	So if you like this podcast, head over to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more.
0:43.9	Hello and welcome to another episode of Midnight Mates.
0:47.2	Thank you so much for downloading.
0:49.4	If you enjoy it, then feel free to give it a nice rating and leave a review.
0:54.4	If you don't, then don't do it as broken, don't go anywhere near it.
0:57.6	Tonight's Midnight Mates is with an absolute legend and you know where there's that phrase,
1:03.0	the word legend is overused these days.
1:05.6	It kind of takes away from the fact that sometimes you have to use it because this Midnight Mates
1:09.9	is with Dion Warwick who for decades was amongst the 40 biggest hit makers that we had in this
1:18.8	planet.
1:19.8	If you look at our history and the charts in the Billboard Hot 100, the American equivalent
1:23.7	of top 40, 56 of our singles got into 12 top 10s and you know she was absolutely sensational
1:32.4	with an amazing life story detail.
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