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Gardens, Hackney History Festival and Colin Blunstone

Everything you need to know about London from architecture to accents and great music.

Clare Foggett joins us to discuss her book 鈥淏eauty and Abundance: British Cottage Gardens鈥�, Janet Chapman, founder of the Hackney History Festival, on the month-long volunteer-run festival throughout May, and Colin Blunstone, lead singer of The Zombies, celebrates the remastered mono reissue of their debut album 鈥淏egin Here鈥�.

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Music Played

  • Pat Metheny Group

    Last Train Home

    • Still Life (Talking).
    • Nonesuch.
    • 3.

  • Steve Harley & Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

    Judy Teen

    • Rock 'N' Roll Years 1974.
    • CONNOISSEUR COLLECTION.
    • 16.

  • Fun Boy Three

    The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)

    • Chrysalis Records.

  • TLC

    Waterfalls

    • LOVE & AFFECTION.
    • SONY BMG.
    • 07.

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Sweet Home Alabama

    • Now That's What I Call Country.
    • Now! Music.
    • 01.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Little Lies

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop (2018 Remaster).
    • Rhino/Warner Records.
    • 01.

  • Paul Weller

    Broken Stones

    • Modern Classics - The Greatest Hits.
    • Universal-Island Records Ltd..
    • 15.

  • Paul Simon

    Kodachrome

    • Legacy Recordings.

  • Tommy Steele

    Flash, Bang, Wallop

    • The World Of Tommy Steele.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 19.

  • Steely Dan

    Peg

    • Aja.
    • Geffen.
    • 4.

  • Duran Duran

    Girls On Film

    • Duran Duran - Greatest.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 02.

  • The Kinks

    People Take Pictures Of Each Other

    • The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (Deluxe Edition).
    • Sanctuary Records.
    • 15.

  • Chet Baker

    My Funny Valentine

    • Play Digital.

  • Five Stairsteps

    O-o-h Child

    • Columbia.

  • Wailing Souls

    Fire House Rock

    • Fire House Rock.
    • Greensleeves Records.
    • 1.

  • Joan Armatrading

    Down To Zero

    • A&M.

  • Matt Monro

    Somewhere

    • Parlophone UK.

  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family

    • Very Best Of Sister Sledge 1973-93.
    • RHINO.
    • 01.

  • Macy Gray

    I Try

    • I Try (single).
    • EPIC.
    • 01.

  • Joni Mitchell

    In France They Kiss On Main Street

    • Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975).
    • Rhino/Elektra.
    • 4.

  • Leon Bridges

    Coming Home

    • Columbia.

  • Olivia Dean

    Man I Need

    • Capitol.

  • Colin Blunstone

    Say You Don't Mind

    • Some Years, The Time Of Colin Blunstone.
    • Epic/Legacy.
    • 08.

  • The Zombies

    She's Not There

    • Hits Of The Sixties.
    • CASTLE COMMUNICATIONS.
    • 21.

  • Elvis Costello

    Alison

    • The Best Of The First 10 Years.
    • UMe/Elvis Costello.
    • 2.

  • Nina Simone

    Wild Is The Wind

    • Milan Records.

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    麻豆社 Radio London