Brian

In trying to juggle everything last week, I totally forgot about the first part of Tom Robinson's interview with Brian Eno on Wednesday, even though I'd posted about it only the week before. Fortunately, the BBC website retains programmes for a week, so I managed to hear it this afternoon, and you can too, for a short while, on the Tom Robinson page for BBC 6 Music.

Brian talks so fluently and engagingly that the interviewer merely has to guide him gently, starting with his unusual family, through the days of Portsmouth Sinfonia and Roxy Music, to his early solo career and the development of ambient music, ending, for this part of the interview, with his work on 'Heroes' with David Bowie and Robert Fripp.

It's mostly familiar ground, but still interesting, and there were several anecdotes I'd not heard before. Part Two is at 7pm on Wednesday, 3rd May, and for a week afterwards on the BBC 6 Music website. I'm hoping that he will cover his recent work, includuding 77 million paintings, and the talks he gives on vastly different subjects, from perfume and the 'clock of the long now' to the invasion of Iraq.

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