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• Cover Story: Time After Time

  Time After Time was a last minute addition to Cyndi Lauper's debut album She's So Unusual in 1983 - a final songwriting session between Lauper and Rob Hyman filling a gap on the tracklist. Since then, it's been through the wringer with not one but two versions recorded for MacDonald's ads, turn-of-the-millennium EDM, and a turn by Miles Davis ("the most honoured I ever felt" - Cyndi Lauper; "he could have farted it and she'd still have loved it" - Andrew Ford). Andy's guests are Iain Grandage and Michelle Nicolle. 

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• Come to the cabaret with Le Gateau Chocolat, and music from the borderlands of Iran and Afghanistan

  All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.

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• Cover Story: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

  All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.

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• Sorrow and songwriting: Irish musician Inni-K, and Joe Camilleri's The Black Sorrows

  Inni-K, the alias of singer songwriter Eithne Ní Chatháin, blends Ireland's rich music traditions with her own playful compositional voice. Her new album Still A Day deviates from the traditional material she's focused on in the past, and these original songs are sung in English and Gaelic, with her voice and fiddle at the centre.Touring relentlessly and releasing music since the early 1980s, Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows are taking stock with a new album of ‘quintessential songs’ that celebrate their four decade contribution to Australian music.  Part of the band’s success is down to embracing eclectic musical styles. You’ll find jazz, blues, rock, zydeco and pop on this album. The Sorrows have also welcomed a rotating cast of musicians over the years—people like Vika & Linda Bull, Paul Grabowsky, Michael Barker and George Butrumlis. Joe speaks to Andrew about longevity, singing with his saxophone, and how he never knows when something’s going to be a hit.Plus, music from the border of Iran and Afghanistan, from Badieh. They'll be on The Music Show next week. 

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• Cover Story: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

  The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was made famous by the version Roberta Flack recorded for her 1969 album First Take, which was then used in Clint Eastwood's 1971 film Play Misty for Me.  But it started life as a relatively simple folksong British folk singer Ewan MacColl wrote for and delivered to American folk singer Peggy Seeger down a phone line at the start of the 1960s. From folksong to torch song to torture device (sorry, Barbra Streisand), it's a song that has robustly weathered many interpretations. Poet and folk artist Kate Fagan and soprano Rachel Mink of Luminescence Chamber Singers are our critics in the first episode of a new series of Cover Story. 

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