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1 June 2018

The Back Half #24: Long Players with Deborah Levy and David Mitchell

The NS culture podcast with Tom Gatti and Kate Mossman.

By New Statesman

Tom Gatti and Kate Mossman discuss oversharing musicians and nineties adverts, and we hear from novelists Deborah Levy and David Mitchell about their favourite albums: Joni Mitchell’s Blue and David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Listen on iTunes here, on Acast here or via the player below:

Further reading and listening:

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Kate’s interview with Lily Allen.

Joni Mitchell’s Blue.

David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

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