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In Talk the Line our favourite bands and celebs talk about their secret - and not so secret - fascinations, passions and obsessions with host Jen Long. The podcast is brought to you by The Line of Best Fit - the UK's biggest independent website for music discovery.
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland on singing the day from 2021-04-30T13:19:12
Beverly Glenn-Copeland talks to Jen Long about how singing the day helps him through the pandemic.
The reissue of Glenn-Copeland's 1986 masterpiece, Keyboard Fantasies is out now...
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Dodie on knitting from 2021-04-23T08:50:10
Dodie talks to Jen Long about how knitting helped her through the lockdowns. Her debut album Build A Problem is released on 7 May 2021.
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Royal Blood's Mike Kerr on finding a path to wellbeing during lockdown from 2021-04-16T09:28:42
Two years sober, Royal Blood vocalist talks to Jen Long about a cleaner way of living during the pandemic. The band's new album Typhoons is released on 30 April 20201.
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RAYE on jigsaw puzzles from 2021-04-09T07:07:24
23-year-old South London-born singer and songwriter Raye talks about discovering a passion for jigsaw puzzles during the pandemic. RAYE's new mini-album Euphoric Sad Songs is out now an...
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Alex the Astronaut on the joys of TV shows from 2021-04-02T08:59:17
Australian singer/songwriter Alexandra Lynn - better known to her fans as Alex the Astronaut speaks to Jen Long about losing herself in tv shows during the pandemic for this episode of Talk The ...
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Fran Healy on directing from 2021-03-26T00:00
Travis frontman Fran Healy speaks to Jen Long from his LA home about leaning into his love of directing videos during lockdown for this episode of Talk The Line. Travis’ new album 10 So...
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JP Saxe on Bananagrams from 2021-03-19T08:45:44
Grammy-nominated Canadian musician and singer-songwriter tells Jen Long how Bananagrams helped him survive the pandemic.
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Julien Baker on trail running from 2021-03-11T23:00
Tennessee-born 25-year-old singer/songwriter Julien Baker just dropped her third album Little Oblivions and on this episode she talks to Jen Long about trail running.
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Lava La Rue on visual arts from 2021-03-05T01:00
As the founding member of the NiNE8 collective, musician, singer and artist Lava La Rue has curated incredible projects across the worlds of art, music and fashion, as well as establishing her o...
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Tom Jones and the art of reimagination from 2021-02-25T23:00
Sir Tom Jones talks to Jen Long about the artists and songs that inspired him on new record Surrounded By Time, and his approach to re-imagining those tracks for a whole new audience.
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Tancred's Jess on her passion for Harry Potter from 2018-12-24T09:13:48
In the final episode of our first season, Jess Abbott from Tancred talks to host Jen Long about a shared passion: the world of Harry Potter.
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The Sugarcubes's Einar Örn talks about whispers from 2018-12-24T08:53:40
Einar Örn has been famously described as the first punk in Iceland. He played alongside Björk in in the early 80s anarcho-punk outfit Kukl before joining her as a founding member of The Sugarcub...
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The Sugarcubes' Sigtryggur Baldursson on why climate change matters above all else from 2018-12-21T13:59:53
Sigtryggur Baldursson - a founding member of The Sugarcubes alongside Björk - and key figure in the Iceland music scene over four decades - tells us about his concerns for the planet in a specia...
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Milkywhale's Melkorka on entrepreneurialism from 2018-11-29T08:16:07
Milkywhale was born out of a performative project for dance school and has become one of Iceland's most inventive pop artists. Today’s we’re talking to one half of the duo, Melkorka Magnusd...
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Musician, visual artist and Múm vocalist Sigurlaug Gisladóttir - aka Mr. Silla - on her love of anime from 2018-11-16T08:26:01
Musician, visual artist and former Múm vocalist Sigurlaug Gisladóttir has been a mainstay of the tightly-knit Icelandic music scene for more than a decade - much of that as part of solo-project-...
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Jim White on his passion for finding old things from 2018-10-29T12:41:51
DIY outlier musician Jim White tells us about his passion for finding old things in a special podcast recorded at this year's End of the Road Festival.
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Alessia Cara on growing pains and the awkwardness of adolescence from 2018-10-16T07:28:57
Canadian popstar and singer/songwriter Alessia Cara talks about the awkwardness of adolescence.
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Japanese Breakfast's Michelle on her love of Korean food from 2018-10-03T11:25:03
Michelle Zauner - aka Philadelphia pop experimentalist Japanese Breakfast - talks about her love of Korean food to host Jen Long.
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Ritzy from The Joy Formidable talks about living in Utah from 2018-09-19T07:07:12
Rhiannon "Ritzy" Bryan from Welsh rockers The Joy Formidable talks about her experiences of living in Utah.
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Samm Henshaw and his favourite comic book adaptations from 2018-09-04T02:34:15
Rising R&B star and comic book obsessive Samm Henshaw chats to Jen Long about how his favourite books have made it to the big and small screens.
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Interpol's Paul Banks explains the noble art of boxing from 2018-08-21T11:31:48
Interpol frontman Paul Banks explains the noble art of boxing to Jen Long. The band's sixth album Marauder is released on 24 August via Matador.
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Miles Kane and his passion for WWE - American Wrestling from 2018-08-06T07:05:38
Miles Kane joins presenter Jen Long to explore his passion for WWE - American Wrestling.
With a career stretching back to his mid-teens, Kane's been one of indie rock's most prolific coll...
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Mikky Ekko explains how to have lucid dreams from 2018-07-20T07:58
Singer/Songwiter and Rihanna-collaborator Mikky Ekko joins presenter Jen Long to share his fascination with controlling what happens in your dreams. You can take the Japanese Cube Test mentioned in...
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Alec from Clap Your Hands Say Yeh and his love of the Spanish premier football league from 2018-07-13T08:22:16
Alec Ounsworth is the Pennsylvania-born frontman of Clap Your Hands Say Yeh, one of the most loved US indie bands of the last decade thanks largely to their self-titled 2005 debut and its follow...
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Tom Grennan on the World Cup and why football's coming home from 2018-07-06T07:00:47
Rising star Tom Grennan tells us why football's coming home this year as we explore the unique appeal of the World Cup.
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Lucy Rose and the joys of being boring from 2018-06-29T12:06:46
British singer/songwriter Lucy Rose tells us about the joys of being boring.
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Kevin from Two Door Cinema Club on Northern Ireland and The Troubles from 2018-06-22T08:30:47
Kevin Baird is a founding member of Two Door Cinema Club, probably the most successful rock band to ever come out of Northern Ireland. The three members of Two Door met as teenagers in Bang...
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Stella Donnelly explains the menstrual cycle from 2018-06-15T12:21:29
Stella Donnelly was born and raised in Wales before moving to Australia at the age of ten. Fifteen years later she's one of her adopted country's brightest musical hopes, abandoning he...
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The Hold Steady's Craig Finn on why baseball is the only sport that matters from 2018-06-08T11:49:07
Minnesota-born Craig Finn is the frontman of The Hold Steady and as a huge baseball fan has never been shy about his support for hometown team the Minnesota Twins, even penning a fight song for the...
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Chris and Keith from We Are Scientists explain the appeal of Jack Reacher from 2018-06-01T08:14:01
Chris and Keith from We Are Scientists go deep in chat on their literary obsession: Jack Reacher, the fictional character created by British author Lee Child.
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Neko Case and why she's inspired by the warrior women of history from 2018-05-25T10:41:38
Legendary singer and performer Neko Case tells us why she's inspired by the warrior women of history.
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Harry from Peace on how he found a new life through meditation and yoga from 2018-05-18T00:00:18
Harry Koisser, the frontman of Peace, used to embrace the lifestyle of a metropolitan rockstar but when Peace relocated to a farmhouse in the middle of a forest miles away from civilisation to w...
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Tove Styrke on the concept of personality from 2018-05-10T22:59:16
Swedish pop star Tove Styrke tells us about her fascination with personality.
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Max Richter on his fascination with Haruki Murakami from 2018-05-04T00:00
Max Richer - one of the first composers to combine classical and electronic elements with a post rock sensibility – tells us out one of his favourite writers, the Japanese-born Haruki Murakami.
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Andrew W.K. explains why partying hard became his life philosophy from 2018-04-27T05:00
Partying hard remains integral to everything California-born legendary Andrew W.K. does - he’s built a life philosophy around it – and (of course) that’s what we’re talking to Andrew about today fo...
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Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor and his obsession with Vuokko Nurmesniemi , the creator of Marimekko's iconic Jokapoika shirt from 2018-04-20T11:32:35
Alexis Taylor, the co-founder of the legendary Hot Chip is obsessed with Finnish-born Vuokko Nurmesniemi , the creator of Marimekko's iconic Jokapoika shirt.
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Jamz Supernova takes up deep into the Shondaverse from 2018-04-13T08:03:31
South East London-born DJ and presenter Jamz Supernova is a TV boxset junkie and for this episode of Talk The Line we're discussing the work of Shonda Rhimes, the hugely influential television prod...
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The Vaccines' Justin explores the relationship between running and mental health from 2018-04-06T12:59:27
The Vaccines singer Justin explores the relationship between running and mental health.
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Kate Nash on why Buffy The Vampire Slayer is so important to her from 2018-03-30T10:43:13
At the age of 21 singer/songwriter Kate Nash won a BRIT Award and over the last ten years has balanced a successful music and acting career.
She's releasd four albums to date and her late...
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Lissie explains the art of beekeeping from 2018-03-23T11:20:45
Two years ago Rock Island, Illinois born-singer Lissie moved out of the orbit of the music industry machine and back to her native Midwest. Empowered by the success of her last record - which sh...
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Tracey Thorn on the long walks she takes around her hometown of London from 2018-03-16T08:49:43
Across four decades Tracey Thorn's songs and writing have offered up a clear-eyed woman’s view of the immediate world around her; from the acerbic teen love songs of her first early-eighties ban...
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Spector's Fred Macpherson tells the history of Pizza Express from 2018-03-09T01:00
Fred Macpherson was already a mainstay of the East London indie scene before forming Spector in 2011. Playing their first shows at Efes Snooker Club in East London, the hype around the grou...
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Emily from The Staves on fantasy fiction and His Dark Materials from 2018-03-02T12:24:19
The Staves are Emily, Jessica and Camilla - three sisters who cut their teeth performing together at open-mic nights in Watford, their home city an hour North of London.The trio put out their fi...
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Fischerspooner's Casey on the links between food and memory from 2018-02-23T12:00
Fischerspooner began as a performance art piece in New York City at the end of the last century. They played their very first performance at a Manhattan Starbucks, which ultimately transformed i...
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JFDR and her obsession with matcha from 2018-02-17T12:00
Jófríður Ákadóttir - one of Iceland's most talented and productive young musicians tell us about her obsession with matcha, against the backdrop of Kumiko, a teahouse in the hip Grandi area of Reyk...
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Káryyn on meditation from 2018-02-09T12:00
Multi-disciplinary artist, electronic musician, vocalist and producer Káryyn tells us about how the importance of meditation in her life.
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Kojey Radical and his passion for mixed martial arts from 2018-02-02T13:45:10
London-based rapper and poet Kojey Radical tells us in detail about his passion for mixed martial arts.
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Dream Wife's Rakel on monsters, spirits, elves, trolls and the Icelandic art of storytelling from 2018-01-26T11:00
Punk trio Dream Wife came together while they were studying visual arts at Brighton University, with roommates Rakel and Bella roping in fellow student Alice to create a fake girl band for a cou...
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Marika Hackman and her favourite condiments from 2018-01-19T12:54:59
British singer/songwriter Marika Hackman's had an incredible 18 months - last year's album "I'm Not Your Man" ditched the pastoral folk sound of her debut and found her treading new ground, asse...
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Metronomy's Joe Mount and his fascination with architecture from 2018-01-12T12:00
Joe Mount is the mastermind behind Metronomy, one of the UK's most inventive, loved and successful bands. Joe formed Metronomy as a teenage bedroom project in his home town of Totnes, Devon and ...
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Bright Light Bright Light's Rod on his favourite cult movies from 2017-12-29T13:00
Rod Thomas grew up in Neath where he passed the time learning how to play as many different instruments as he could. Moving to London he started busking at Liverpool Street tube station and play...
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Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, hight priest of the Ásatrúarfélagið, explains paganism from 2017-12-22T12:00
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson’s a career as a professional musician dates back to the early ’70s. He’s worked with the likes of Björk, Current 93 and Psychic TV. As a composer he’s worked on more t...
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Rae Morris on the festive season and the bits of Christmas that you don’t celebrate enough from 2017-12-15T14:49:52
Singer and songwriter Rae Morris signed a record at just 17 after years of gigging around the North with her mum and dad as tour managers. She released her first album Unguarded in 2015 and has ...
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Naughty Boy and his love of home cooking from 2017-12-08T11:03:56
Under the name of Naughty Boy, producer Shahid Khan has been behind some of the most successful pop music of the last few years.
As a seventeen year old growing up in Watford, Shahi...
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Au Revoir Simone's Annie Hart explains how to manage your band's finances from 2017-12-01T11:58:37
Annie Hart made her name as one third of Au Revoir Simone, a band she initially formed almost fifteen years ago after befriending Erika Forster on a trainride from New York to Vermont.
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Natti from Fickle Friends on Yuval Harari’s Sapiens from 2017-11-23T23:45
Natti Shiner is the principle singer, songwriter and synth player in Fickle Friends, the hardest working indie-pop band in the UK right now.
Natti was born in the mountains of Switzerland...
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Torres on her experiences of ASMR and its triggers from 2017-11-17T08:06:34
Torres - aka 26-year-old musician Mackenzie Scott - talks about her experiences of ASMR and its triggers.
Three Futures, Torres' third album, was released last month and grew out of ...
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Ólafur Arnalds and why collaboration other musicians is so vital from 2017-11-10T13:32:45
Ólafur Arnalds is one of Iceland’s top composers and probably best known in the UK for his BAFTA-award winning score to the television show Broadchurch.
Only just in his thirties, Ólafur&...
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The Killers' Ronnie Vannucci Jr on the food chain and how we relate to animals from 2017-11-03T10:11:32
Before he joined The Killers in 2002, Ronnie Vanucci Jr was a well known drummer on the Las Vegas scene had played in in everything from a ska-punk to a covers band called Free Food, who played ...
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Murr from Impractical Jokers on conspiracy theories from 2017-10-26T22:59:49
James Murray - aka Murr - is a member of comedy collective The Tenderloins who found fame on hit Comedy Central show
Högni on why basketball is most beautiful of all games from 2017-10-20T07:41:28
Högni Egilsson is one of the most recognisable faces and voices in Icelandic music. A member of the legendary electronic collective Gus Gus since 2011, he’s also carved out a career with th...
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Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch on the human condition from 2017-10-12T23:31:44
Spirituality and religion have been re-ocurring themes in the lyrics of Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch. In this episode of Talk The Line we talk to him about one of the grandest themes we’...
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Eva from Charly Bliss on her obsession with comic books from 2017-10-05T22:50
Eva Hendricks is the effervescent frontwoman of Brooklyn power pop band Charly Bliss. Made up of four friends who all went to school together, the band formed in 2014 and also includes Eva’s bro...
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Spacebomb's Cameron Ralston on gardening from 2017-09-29T07:52:26
Cameron Ralston is the house bassist and a producer for Spacebomb, a collective of musicians based in Richmond, Virginia, who set up a record label and production company based around a hou...
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Anne Marie on the challenges women and girls face in living up to somebody else's idea of the perfect body from 2017-09-21T22:45
BRITs-nominated popstar Anne-Marie talks about the challenges women and girls face in living up to somebody else's idea of the perfect body.
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Copafeel founder Kris Hallenga on her love of Cornwall from 2017-09-15T12:22:21
Kris Hallenga has one of the most inspiring stories of our times. After being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 23 she founded the charity Copafeel with her sister and a mission to educ...
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Julia Jacklin and her fascination with magic from 2017-09-07T22:10
An obsession with magic gave Julia Jacklin an epiphany. She explains why in a special podcast recorded at End of the Road Festival with host Jen Long.
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Mammút's Kata on imposter syndrome from 2017-08-31T22:50
Kata Mogensen, singer with Icelandic band Mammút talks to Jen Long faking it: otherwise known as "imposter syndrome".
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Sink The Pink founder Glyn Fussell on his love of birds from 2017-08-25T14:00
Sink the Pink-founder Glyn Fussell began his career as a go-go dancer in Sydney before creating the infamous London club night that's taken the UK capital's nightlife by storm. He talks to Jen L...
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Nadine Shah and the taboo of mental health from 2017-08-17T22:40:26
Singer/songwriter Nadine Shah talks about the taboo of mental health in a revealing chat with Jen Long.
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Vanessa White and her love of '90s R&B from 2017-08-10T22:48:04
After leaving British girl-group The Saturdays, Vanessa White is beginning to carve out a solo career influenced by the music she fell in love with as a child. She tells Jen Long just why she lo...
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Martine McCutcheon retells the history of Henry VIII from 2017-08-03T22:45
Actress, singer and national institution Martine McCutcheon reveals her fascination with 16th-century British monarch Henry VIII.
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Amanda Palmer on taboos from 2017-07-27T22:45
Amanda Palmer doesn't shy away from talking about the difficult things in her life - something that her interviewers often find hard to keep up with. She talks candidly about those things with J...
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Denai Moore on the vegan life and her love of baking from 2017-07-21T05:41:33
Singer Denai Moore talks about the vegan life and her love of baking to Jen Long.
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Oh Wonder's Josie and Anthony on running from 2017-07-13T22:55
Oh Wonder's Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West have taken part in marathons across the world. They tell Jen Long why running matters to them.
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Bastille's Dan Smith on his favourite podcasts from 2017-07-06T22:39:18
Bastille's Dan Smith talks about his favourite podcasts to Jen Long as the pair attempt to understand just why we love them so much. The full list of podcasts Dan recommends are: Serial, This Am...
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Alex Cameron on sex and relationships from 2017-06-30T07:43:47
Australian singer/songwriter Alex Cameron talks candidly about love and sex to Jen Long in our most NSFW podcast yet!
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Tim Burgess on why he launched his own brand of coffee from 2017-06-21T12:29:19
The Charlatans-frontman Tim Burgess tells Jen Long about why coffee matters.
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Cecile Believe on scent and smells from 2017-06-16T22:43
Canadian musician and SOPHIE collaborator Caila Thompson-Hannant who makes music under the name Cecile Believe talks to Jen Long about her obsession with scent.
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Douglas Dare on drag from 2017-06-06T05:40:39
Pianist and singer Douglas Dare has released two incredible albums on the much loved Erased Tapes label, home to the likes of Nils Frahm. While his music is often introspective, and understated,...
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Árni from The Vaccines on a strange situation from Iceland - 'Ástandið' from 2017-05-22T23:00
Icelandic-born Árni Árnason, bassist with The Vaccines tells Jen Long about his fascination with a strange period in his country's history, known as 'Ástandið' - The Situation.
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Blaenavon's Benjamin Gregory on Herman Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke and Friedrich Dürrenmatt from 2017-05-05T18:14
Blaenavon have just released their debut album - a record that covers six years of their lives. In conversation with Jen Long, frontman Ben Gregory explores his obsession with German literature ...
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Johnny Flynn on walking, rambling and the philosophy of creating your own path from 2017-04-26T00:00
Johnny Flynn - musician and the star of Netflix show Lovesick - tells Jen Long about walking, rambling and the philosophy of creating your own path.
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Shura on time, space and the movie Interstellar from 2017-04-18T18:49:25
Jen Long meets UK popstar Shura to find out about her fascination with time, space and the movie Interstellar - while trying to piece together the laws of physics without using Google but with t...
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