The Greetings dear listeners and welcome to another episode of soda jaker on songwriting. This is Brian and Simon here once again to

examine the creative process of one of the world's leading tune smiths. On the show today we have an

Ivan Novello Award winning British songwriter, musician and producer whose list of credits we'd like a fellow award

winning British songwriter, musician and producer, whose list of credits

we'd like a who's who of contemporary UK pop music.

Over the last 10 years he's become the go-to collaborator

for the likes of Adele, Will Young,

Carly Manogue, James Blunt, James Morrison, Duffy,

Rebecca Ferguson, Tom O'Dell and many more young artists looking for that elusive hit.

It's the improbably talented egg white.

Egg's name might not be familiar to you, but if you've listened to the radio at any point in the last 10 years,

you'll certainly have heard us work. We'll just throw a few song titles at you to give you an idea of this

dude's pedigree. Leave right now by Will Young, Chasing Pavement by

Adele, Wonderful World by James Morrison, Warwick Avenue by Duffy, Nothing's Real but Love by Rebecca Ferguson.

This guy is a master pop craftsman and no mistake and we are delighted to have him on the show.

Yeah, it's been quite a while since we spoke to a Wizard Behind the curtain type of songwriter like Egg, isn't it?

Yeah, I mean we had Sasha Scarbeck on early on. We worked a lot with James Blunt and then we had

gay chambers on of course, but it is always a fascinating area of the craft to discuss and I

think Egg is undoubtedly one of its shining lights.

He certainly is.

Before we speak to the man himself we'd like to take a moment or two to give you some background

on him. As you might have guessed, Egg is a nickname. One he's had since he was 10, we believe. He was born Francis Anthony White in London in 1966. His was a musical family and both of his parents were classical musicians

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