Interview: Kate Bush talks to Today
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this exclusive interview Kate Bush talks to Today presenter Emma Barnett about a new short film she has made for the charity War Child, her music reaching a whole new audience through the TV series Stranger Things and her plans for the future.
Plus, Emma tells Amol how she got such a rare interview with the music legend.
The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before and was also ITV’s political editor.
You can subscribe to The Today Podcast on BBC Sounds so you don’t miss an episode. You can also listen any time on your smart speaker by saying “Smart Speaker, ask BBC Sounds to play The Today Podcast.”
The senior producer is Lewis Vickers, the producers are Sinead Heekin and Nadia Gyane. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.
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| 0:00.0 | We get it. Life is busy. You want to keep up with the news, but there's just too much going on. |
| 0:06.9 | Which is where Newscast comes in. We do the work, and when you're ready to dig deeper into the day's news, you just pop us into your ears. |
| 0:14.8 | It does mean we have to put in the hard work, though. |
| 0:17.5 | Listen to Newscast every day on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:21.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:26.0 | There we go. |
| 0:27.1 | Amol and I are sealed. |
| 0:29.2 | That was the voice of Emma Barnett, who is sort of a bit like a strange sort of usurper, |
| 0:34.8 | imposter, finds herself here in the today podcast community amongst our pod squad |
| 0:40.7 | because we have got a very very special bonus for listeners to the today podcast members of our |
| 0:47.5 | pod squad as i certainly call them and that is one of those interviews that is basically not meant to |
| 0:53.8 | happen because if you're in our game in our job in our industry there are some And that is one of those interviews that is basically not meant to happen. |
| 0:57.3 | Because if you're in our game, in our job, in our industry, |
| 1:03.5 | there are some people who everyone wants to interview but knows we'll never do an interview, |
| 1:10.3 | unless somehow you manage to persuade them, as Emma has done with Kate Bush. |
| 1:28.3 | I still can't quite believe this is actually going to happen. |
| 1:30.2 | You've got an interview with Kate Bush. |
| 1:31.6 | And what does she say? |
| 1:34.1 | Kate has been working. |
| 1:35.6 | Kate, first name terms, here we go. |
| 1:38.3 | On a film called Little Shrew. |
| 1:43.2 | And she had the idea two years ago when she heard about the Ukraine War. |
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