I kind of was reluctant to play between the wars
because I got a feeling from my audience that they were feeling nostalgic for Margaret Thatcher,
but...
At a certain point in the career of a venerable musician,
they may well decide that the time has come to compose some variety of memoir.
This week's guest has outsourced the work.
Not, as is traditional,
to some weary hack willing to serve as ghostwriter in order to pay off publicans and bookmakers,
but to more than 600 friends, associates, collaborators and, most of all, fans.
Billy Bragg, A People's History,
is an oral chronicle of the life and works of one of that rare cast of strummer whose songs have become a soundtrack to people's lives.
I'm Andrew Muller and I spoke to Billy Bragg for The Big Interview.
Billy Bragg, welcome to the Big Interview.
It's good to be here mate.
How big is this interview?
God, it's huge!
Look at the size of it!
I tell you, I haven't seen an interview this size since the old days.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
We will of course be discussing the new book and matters arising, but I did want to start with...