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Radio 4,16 Apr 2025,28 mins

The Piano Tuner's Tale

Life Changing

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In 1977, Ed Stewart was a happy-go-lucky teenager with his whole life ahead of him. With a new engineering job, a girlfriend and a motorbike, life was good. But when he dropped in on a friend鈥檚 party, a violent row with another teenager - who was carrying a shotgun - turned Ed鈥檚 whole life on its head. Ed had to learn to navigate the world in an entirely different way, but he made a success of it - becoming a piano tuner to the stars and counting Jools Holland and Brian Ferry as his customers. Despite a life of adversity, he tells Dr Sian Williams how not just one, but two Life Changing moments led him to be what he refers to as a 鈥済lass-three-quarters-full鈥 kind of bloke. Producer: Tom Alban

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