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My cast away this week is Jamie Cullham.

A prodigious talent, when you watch him sing and play piano, it's as though music

not blood is pumping through his veins.

He's worked with everyone from Paul McCartney to Amy Winehouse and even Clint Eastwood.

He is a master of live performance and one can imagine that those early days

of hooping between pizza bars and jazz clubs have been perfect training for the demands of

fatherhood.

He is married to the model and writer Sophie Dahl and their daughter Lyra is just a year old.

So, how did someone who failed their grade 4 piano end up with a bunch of hits and a stack

of awards?

Hopefully we'll find out.

He says, nothing I have done feels like it was easy.

Well, that's very interesting to me, Jimmy Cullham, because you do look when you're performing

as though you find it incredibly easy.

There's a lot of craft going on there.

I always find words like prodigious, very frightening, because I certainly never felt prodigious

when I was young.

I didn't feel bad about what I was doing, but I felt like I was just kind of knocking around

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