And the Hello and this is Brian.

And joining us today is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose long and varied

career is taken in music, acting and comedy.

A ninth album to date, Dark Matter, was released in May 2017

and is a lovely thing indeed, amply demonstrating her consummate melodic and

lyrical skills.

We are delighted to welcome the excellent Charlie Door to the show.

We caught up with Charlie on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Liverpool last June.

She was performing that evening at the music room, a lovely intimate venue joining the Philharmonic Hall, and it tended to a bit of a saga trying to find an adequate room in which to do the interview, didn't it?

It did a bit, yeah, it was like a spinal tap looking for the stage in Cleveland.

But we persevered and eventually we got to sit down for a very pleasant and interesting chat

which you'll hear in just a couple of minutes. Charlie was born in Pinner, middle sex in 1956.

Her family household was quite a musical and creative one.

Her mother was an accomplished pianist and her dad wrote poetry.

Though music was her first love, she studied drama at the Arts Educational

School in Tring going on to do regional rep theatre and in the early 70s began performing on children's

television. This included an 18 month stint on the performed songs for the show obviously. By the mid-70s she was playing a Monday

night residency with their band hula Valley in London and was also a familiar face

on the city's thriving pub circuit. The buzz this generated eventually led

to her being scouted and signed by the legendary label

boss Chris Blackwell to Ireland records in 1978.

Charlie scored the US hit single with what remains one of their best known songs,

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