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Musical Legends: Joan Armatrading

RADIO 4 EXTRA, 6.30PM

In this interview from 2012, the glorious and prolific musician Joan Armatrading reflects on her career in music with Tom Morton. She begins with how she got an academic grounding in the subject by taking an Open University degree and a further honorary degree from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Armatrading had released 20 albums by the first broadcast of this interview, and here she talks about how her hits – including Me Myself I, Show Some Emotion and Love and Affection – were created.

Rhys James Is... Privileged RADIO 4, 11.15PM

 Comedian Rhys James, who hails from Harpenden, in Hertfordshire, admits that he had a comfortable start in life. For his new navelgazing comedy series, he satirises the whole thing: “I’m a white man, which means a lot of people hate me these days. But I’m a white man, so it doesn’t matter”, he says, skewering contemporary political correctness in a way that just about manages to be endearing rather than infuriating. Here James argues that he is so privileged that he’s stymied in his quest to be a tortured comedian.