Sean McCann - Songs of Our Lives #110
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Sean McCann! It’s always a blast to connect with someone I’ve known for years, and especially around the occasion of their first-ever opera. In this case, Sean’s latest, “The Leopard.” We get into that, the difficulty in completing it, and plenty more bef…
Lena Horne: racism and resilience in the Golden Age of Hollywood
Greg Jenner is joined in twentieth-century America by Dr Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins and comedian Desiree Burch to learn all about singer and Hollywood actress Lena Horne. Born into a middle class Black family in New York, a young Lena Horne soon followed in the footsteps of her actress mother and …
Kramer (Big Ears Festival performer)
For most of his career, Bonner Kramer has been known in underground music circles by only his surname, as his imprint has been deep and wide enough that only that sobriquet has been necessary. Starting in New York City in the late 70’s and into the 80’s, he was a member of several seminal bands of …
Story of Writing April 7, 2026
It's National Beer Day in the US, and the birthday club includes the internet (really), William Wordsworth, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Billie Holliday - with a reading from Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood."
Lena Horne (Radio Edit)
Greg Jenner is joined in 20th-century America by Dr Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins and comedian Desiree Burch to learn all about singer and Hollywood actress Lena Horne.
Born into a middle class Black family in New York, a young Lena Horne soon followed in the footsteps of her actress mother and made …
Jung Chang
The writer, Jung Chang, selects God Bless the Child, by Billie Holliday and The Sweetest Embrace by Barry Adamson.
ERNIE'S ECLECTIC 22 JULY 2026
Ernie is back with a new series of Ernie's Eclectic with music from Billie Holliday to Placido Domingo!
Completely Conspicuous 682: (I'm) Stranded
Celebrating TWENTY YEARS of podcasting with part 1 of my conversation with Phil Stacey about choosing 10 artists to listen to for the rest of your life if you were stranded on a desert island.
Show notes:
Started this show in August 2006!
Instead of Desert Island Discs, we each chose 10 artis…
Pauline Black of The Selecter on Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex
Poly Styrene was born Marie Joan Elliot-Said in 1957 and went on to become front woman of X Ray Spex. When Pauline Black first saw her on Top of the Pops, Poly was wearing a red military jacket and cap. Her attitude, says the lead singer of ska band The Selector, was captivating. Helping tell the s…
The Big Fat Wide Americana Hour No. 493
Alison Krauss, Chubby Checker,
Roger Miller and Etta James —
all on the same show?
Oh, yes!
The new edition of
The Big Fat Wide Americana Hour
is online now!
Love great songwriting?
How about Gregg Brown, or John Prine?
How about classic jazz?
Well — Billie Holliday!
Love the…
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I listen to podcasts.
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