Lindsay Ell, Alan Johnson, Kate Richardson-Walsh and Russell Kane

Blood on the Tracks

BBC

Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Four more self-confessed music nerds; Country Rock star Lindsay Ell, politician Alan Johnson, Olympic Gold Medallist Kate Richardson-Walsh and stand-up comedian Russell Kane play Blood on the Tracks. They pick the best track from a dysfunctional band, greatest political song and a tune from their record collections that guarantees the ‘romance’ including songs by Weezer, Muddy Waters, The Beatles and Nina Simone.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to another 4-way blast through the inner sleeves of 4 relative
0:13.4	strangers record collection.
0:15.5	No dine load left in the cloud, no vinyl left on the shelf and only one will be left in
0:20.3	control of the playlist by the end of it.
0:23.0	United and divided through our musical passions, this is Blood on the Tracks and with me for
0:27.9	this episode.
0:29.0	A man who spent decades working with liars, thieves and psychopaths who all gathered
0:33.6	regularly in one big building to shout at one another.
0:36.8	Outside of politics he also likes reading tennis and cooking, former labour MP and secretary
0:42.0	of many things, Alan Johnson's here.
0:43.9	How you doing?
0:44.9	Fine thank you.
0:45.9	First ever politician to appear on Blood on the Tracks, no pressure.
0:49.4	No, it could be because I got a book out of that music, in my life which is my whole
0:54.2	purpose of coming here.
0:55.8	17 pound 99 at all with bookshops.
0:58.0	See, that is the quickest plug I've ever heard.
1:00.6	Some people you work with, you know, quite subtle.
1:03.6	Yeah just get right on to it.
1:05.0	I appreciate it, they just wrote one, I'm only here for the book.
1:08.0	Alan's been in jacket on, sit down, go to the rest of the programme.
1:11.0	I'm doing the plug in in late.
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