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🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs |
0:25.3 | Magazine, and you may hear the joy in my voice today, because I am talking to someone I admire |
0:34.9 | greatly and have wanted to talk to for a long time and who has been a friend |
0:38.4 | of the current affairs podcast for a long time, but who has never been on the current affairs |
0:42.8 | podcast inexplicably, I don't think. So he is Mr. Danny Bradley, and those of you who've been |
0:51.5 | listening to us for a long time may remember that Danny's |
0:55.9 | songs used to appear semi-regularly back when we were more of a variety show podcast and |
1:01.2 | less of a serious interview program as we are today. |
1:04.8 | We had a lot of Danny Bradley's wonderful satirical songs. |
1:08.5 | Danny is also a writer. |
1:10.0 | He writes for The Skeic. He lives in |
1:13.1 | Liverpool, which we're going to talk about the wonders of Liverpool, and he's going to sell |
1:17.0 | us on its virtues. Danny Bradley. Welcome to current affairs. Oh, thank you very much for having me, |
1:23.3 | Nathan. It's wonderful to be here. That's quite an introduction. So the way that I first encountered your work is I believe you sent me a wonderful song that you |
1:35.1 | had done called Deplatforming Blues. Well, maybe you could describe Deplatforming Blues to us. |
1:42.4 | Sure, yeah. This was not long after I discovered Current Affairs magazine for the first time. |
1:47.4 | And I wrote a kind of a Delta Blues guitar thing, which is a music in which the artists do a lot |
1:55.9 | of complaining. |
1:57.1 | And so I thought about how funny it would be if some of the most, you know, platformed and moneyed people in our media landscape today were to write a kind of a, |
2:06.6 | wo is me, Delta Blues song about how hard it is to not be invited to a prestigious university to talk about race realism. So I, uh, I wrote a kind of a bluesy number called deep platforming blues and, uh and I emailed it in, you know, to you as a reader and a fan, really. |
2:24.0 | But yeah, and that's the first time that I got in touch with you. |
2:27.0 | Well, as you say, usually, yeah, usually the complaints in blues songs are relatively justified. |
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