Thirty years ago this month, Kate Bush released her Hounds of Love album. Nicola explores the album and the singer's motivation and recalls last year's series of concerts. Agatha Christie started writing her first book a hundred years ago. Her biographer Laura Thompson discusses with Mandy the significance of Christie's work and her personal life … [Read more...]

Mandy and Nicola are live from the Cambridge Folk Festival where they will be be featuring interviews with many of the Festival’s headliners including the legendary queen of protest Joan Baez, Nashville star Gretchen Peters, Scottish rebel rousers The Proclaimers, British superstar Joan Armatrading and Peggy Seeger who played at the first Festival … [Read more...]

Mandy Morton presents a special music documentary featuring folk rock legends Fotheringay, who have reformed this month for a series of UK dates. Mandy met up with producer and ace guitarist Jerry Donahue at one of the band's rehearsals to explore the ill-fated history of the band's original line-up, which included the late Sandy Denny; Guest … [Read more...]

Ralph McTell talks to Mandy about guitars, songwriting and London, Carey Mulligan discusses Far From The Madding Crowd as Nicola reviews the film and compares it to Thomas Hardy’s original book, as the Cambridge Folk Festival approaches Mandy catches up with Bella Hardy,one of this years headliners, and Nicola takes a look at Summer reads from … [Read more...]

In a special edition folk-rock giants Maddy Prior, Simon Nicol, Ashley Hutchings, Jerry Donahue, Jacqui McShee and Judy Collins pay tribute to the late Sandy Denny, who died nearly 40 years ago but is still regarded as the greatest folk-rock singer of all time. The programme includes archive interviews with Sandy herself and features some of her … [Read more...]

Nashville star Gretchen Peters talks to Mandy ahead of her UK tour. The author Susan Hill talks to Nicola about he classic ghost story The Woman In Black as the stage version heads for The Cambridge Arts Theatre. Mandy and Nicola preview Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia with English Touring Theatre. And as the first names for The Cambridge Folk Festival … [Read more...]

Fairport Convention, Fifty Shades of Grey, Testament of Youth and Shirley Williams are all featured on the February edition of The Eclectic Light Show. Mandy & Nicola have a special interview with Fairport's Simon Nicol on the first ten years of the band's history. We review Testament of Youth with Baroness Shirley Williams, plus a profile on … [Read more...]