BBC Radio 4
Songs Your Godmother Should Know
1 June 2007
Produced by Alan Hall
The Times classical music critic Hilary Finch co-presents with her god-daughter Tamasin a feature that tests Hilary's 'innocent ear' with Tamasin's pop music collection. It was Hilary Finch in Rhapsody in Bohemia who memorably said, "frankly, I was underwhelmed", on first hearing Queen's pop classic. Here, Tamasin introduces her godmother to Radiohead and The Prodigy, Minnie Ripperton and Michael Jackson and together they examine just what one needs to appreciate the perenially adolescent rebel yell of pop.
Contributors include the gifted lyricist Chris Difford, formerly of Squeeze, 16 year-old Wilf Petherbridge, frontman with Charly Brown, and 6 Music host and singer-songwriter, Tom Robinson.
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