Episode 10: Victim of Geography
In 1989 a crafty comment, during a political song festival, about rabbits running free gets Billy chucked out of East Berlin with a warning he would never play East Germany again. He didn’t - because within a year the Berlin Wall had come down.
In this episode, Billy, with some more nudge-nudge-wink-wink from Wiggy, recalls a year in which he never seemed to stop touring, winding up in Bolivia with Andy Kershaw making a programme for the BBC.
The songs on these podcasts feature on the fabulous Billy Bragg Volume 2 boxed set, available from the Billy Bragg Shop here.
(Volume 2 NTSC version suitable for North America and Japan, etc is here).
