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🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's R from BBC Radio 4. |
0:09.8 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
0:12.5 | Today, a world-exclusive interview for you and a rare one at that. |
0:17.2 | Yesterday, I had the honour of talking to the woman behind this. |
0:21.2 | And this. |
0:36.0 | I am, of course, talking about the one and only Kate Bush, who seldom gives interviews. |
0:42.1 | But in a world exclusive, she has decided to share with me and you the listeners of Woman's R, |
0:46.9 | how very pleased she is to be number one in the UK singles chart 44 years after her debut |
0:52.8 | weathering heights and with a song she first released 37 years ago in 1985 running up that hill. |
1:08.6 | Kate Bush has suddenly found she has a whole new generation of fans, a lot of them in their teens |
1:14.5 | and 20s. Good morning to them, if they're joining us for the first time today on Woman's R, |
1:19.2 | welcome, I hope you'll stay and I hope you'll be back. |
1:22.2 | And this new legion of devotees formed because of the use of that song of running up that hill |
1:27.9 | in a Netflix show set in the 80s called Stranger Things. And in case you haven't watched it, |
1:32.9 | there are four seasons and one of the main characters is a girl called Max. |
1:37.2 | And in her hour of need involving a terrifying demon, her friends, Slotica set into her |
1:42.6 | Walkman remember at the 80s and play her favourite track by Kate Bush and it literally saves her. |
1:49.5 | Now parents around the world who have perhaps lovingly created vinyl and CD collections |
1:54.8 | of Kate Bush's work are being asked by their teens. Have you heard of Kate Bush? |
2:00.8 | Well, before we hear it from the woman herself, let's talk to one of those original fans, |
2:05.5 | the Times writer, author and former music journalist, Catlin Moran. And I started asking Catlin |
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