John Cooper Clarke

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Poet John Cooper Clarke talks to Colin about why he needs an audience to write, how he found out Jazz musician Chet Baker had been his dealer and why he knew Arctic Monkeys were going to be successful. Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which is on Monday to Thursday, 10.30pm to 1am – or available whenever you want via the BBC Sounds app.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.5	I'm Sasha Johansson, I'm an Assistant Commissioner for the BBC and I work on making podcasts.
0:11.1	My real passion is discovering unbelievable unheard stories and working with the biggest
0:16.9	stars who can really bring those stories to life.
0:20.1	I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final
0:26.0	edit.
0:27.0	There's nothing like it.
0:28.0	What makes BBC podcast special is that we're working for you, so whatever we commission
0:32.6	has to reflect the things that you care about and love, wherever you are in the UK.
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0:40.6	Have a listen on BBC Sounds.
0:42.6	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:50.4	Welcome to another Midnight Mites.
0:52.4	Thank you so much for downloading and listening to this podcast.
0:56.5	If you do like it, do subscribe.
0:58.3	It's a weekly long form.
1:00.0	Indie with the first ones at Midnight in the Tuesday as part of weeknights and
1:03.6	five life with myself, columnary 10 30 PM to 1 a.m.
1:07.9	But you probably already know that if you listen to this podcast regularly.
1:11.9	So let's get on with tonight's Midnight Mites.
1:14.1	And our company is the Sofford Bard himself, John Cooper Clark, who started his poetry on
1:20.7	the Cabaret scene in the Northwest before being entwined at the very hearts of the birth
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