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		<itunes:subtitle>The music and career of the Bard of Barking</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>The music and career of Billy Bragg</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Episode 14: Half Bragg Half Blokes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mermaid Avenue is a success, but Wilco can&#8217;t tour with Billy to promote the album because their own album is running late. Billy tours first with ex-Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan, then with Mac and his Bump Band in the States, before forming an English band - The Blokes - to tour the Mermaid Avenue [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Mermaid Avenue is a success, but Wilco can't tour with Billy to promote the album because their own album is running late. Billy tours first ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Mermaid Avenue is a success, but Wilco can't tour with Billy to promote the album because their own album is running late. Billy tours first with ex-Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan, then with Mac and his Bump Band in the States, before forming an English band - The Blokes - to tour the Mermaid Avenue catalogue. 

Eventually, they begin co-writing their own album - England, Half English - after Billy resists the temptation to make his temporary stint as a BBC Radio 2 disc jockey into something more permanent. A decision to write a book on English identity, which becomes The Progressive Patriot, leads to a five-year wait before work begins on another studio album.

Albums featured or referred to in this podcast include Billy Bragg and The Blokes Mermaid Avenue Tour official bootleg, England, Half English, Must I Paint You A Picture: The Essential Billy Bragg, and Billy Bragg Volumes 1 and 2 Boxed Sets. All available in the Billy Bragg Shop</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Protest and survive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March 1984, my debut EP had been knocked off the top of the indie charts by the Smiths&#8217; first album. For the previous 12 months, I&#8217;d been travelling Britain trying to reinvent the idea of the political singer-songwriter. Now I had an opportunity to find out if my punk-edged songs had any relevance in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair play in the music industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Billy Bragg and Dave Rowntree
Google&#8217;s decision unilaterally to remove the music videos from their YouTube network in the UK as a fee-negotiating tactic in a dispute with the Performing Rights Society is a stark illustration of the power-shift that has gone on with the music industry over the past decade. By choosing to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How we all lost when Thatcher won</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a bitter irony in the fact that the Bank of England chose the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the miners&#8217; strike to fire off its weapon of last resort in an attempt to damp down the conflagration currently sweeping through global capitalism. The wry smile that passes across the lips of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q Magazine - November 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something about standing around with an electric guitar hanging down by your groin that is attractive to boys in their mid-teens. The 14-year-old kid who lived in the terrace house next door taught me to play in the summer of 1974 and from that day on we were a gang, facing the choppy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q Magazine - October 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2009/02/25/q-magazine-october-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m having terrible trouble with my piles. It&#8217;s all that sitting around in buses and airplanes on tour that causes it. Whenever you stop moving, there’s an overwhelming urge to get hold of something to help pass the time: a magazine, a book, a DVD or a CD. I’m particularly drawn to the latter. Hanging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome back the taxman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the debate about the RBS bonuses over the past week, I&#8217;ve been waiting for someone to utter the T word. When the executives pleaded that any claw-back would penalise the vast majority of their high street staff who earned under £17,000 per year, I began shouting this word at the telly. When Vince Cable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q Magazine articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billy has recently joined Q Magazine, the British music publication, as a regular columnist.
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		<title>2nd November  Asheville NC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JFK airport is full of people wearing medals they won for completing the New York City marathon yesterday, looking tired but happy. After three weeks and nearly 3000 miles in our Econoline van, I feel the same, buoyed by the fact that the best show was saved until last. 
Asheville is a town in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1st November  Durham NC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Considering how many miles we’ve driven in the past three weeks, opportunities for roadside recreation have been far and few between. Early on, we diverted off of I-80 near Jenny Jump Mountain after seeing a sign inviting us to The Land of Make Believe. Our wise-cracks about it being full of Obama supporters were intensified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30th October  Norfolk Virginia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Attucks Theatre was opened in 1919 and is notable as the oldest remaining theatre in the USA that was entirely financed, designed, constructed and operated by African Americans. It seems entirely fitting that I should be appearing here as the country is alive with the possibility of electing its first African American president. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laura Nyro song - Lebanon, NH, 23 October</title>
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		<title>21st/22nd October  Boston</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two consecutive nights at the Somerville Theatre in Boston presents me with the problem of how to sound fresh on the second night. The simple answer is to play different songs but then the challenge is to find a way of refreshing the set list without changing the narrative of the gig, which at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19th October  West Long Branch NJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving south on Route 96 from Ithaca, we pass many roadside signs cautioning us to be aware of snowmobiles appearing from driveways. No fear of that on this warm October Sunday morning. The sun shines down on weathered clapper-board houses and roadside diners offering smashed pumpkin sundae. On winding roads through tiny townships, we pass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New England - Monmouth University, NJ, 19 October</title>
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		<title>I Ain&#8217;t Got No Home - Ithaca, NY, 18 October</title>
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		<title>18th October State College PA and Ithaca NY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interstate 80 is probably the longest road in these United States. It runs from New York City to San Francisco, south of the Great Lakes rolling on across Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada before crossing the Rockies into California, 3000 miles of freeway from sea to shining sea.
The first 240 miles, from Manhattan to State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 13: There Ain&#8217;t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early 1990s, Nora Guthrie, daughter of Woody Guthrie, sees Billy in concert in the States and adds him to her shortlist of musicians to write new music to her late father&#8217;s undiscovered lyrics.
Later that decade, and with the participation of alt-country rockers Wilco, led by Jeff Tweedy, Mermaid Avenue is born. Widely admired [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>In the early 1990s, Nora Guthrie, daughter of Woody Guthrie, sees Billy in concert in the States and adds him to her shortlist of musicians ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>In the early 1990s, Nora Guthrie, daughter of Woody Guthrie, sees Billy in concert in the States and adds him to her shortlist of musicians to write new music to her late father's undiscovered lyrics.

Later that decade, and with the participation of alt-country rockers Wilco, led by Jeff Tweedy, Mermaid Avenue is born. Widely admired and commercially successful in the USA, Mermaid Avenue volumes 1 and 2 are each nominated for a Grammy, and bring Billy a new audience in America. 

Billy tells the story behind the making of the albums, and offers the prospect of unreleased tracks from the sessions becoming available in the next few years.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Episode 12: William Bloke</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years on the road, temporary health problems, and a burgeoning relationship lead Billy to re-think his life and career. Then Billy&#8217;s partner, Juliet, falls pregnant and Billy knows everything really has changed for good.
Eventually he writes William Bloke - an album that reflects fatherhood, the end of Margaret Thatcher and of the Soviet Union [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Ten years on the road, temporary health problems, and a burgeoning relationship lead Billy to re-think his life and career. Then Billy's partner, Juliet, falls ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Ten years on the road, temporary health problems, and a burgeoning relationship lead Billy to re-think his life and career. Then Billy's partner, Juliet, falls pregnant and Billy knows everything really has changed for good.

Eventually he writes William Bloke - an album that reflects fatherhood, the end of Margaret Thatcher and of the Soviet Union - and replaces Marxist ideology with Socialism of the Heart.

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).</itunes:summary>
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		<title>3rd February Perth BDO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The flight over to Perth takes three and a half hours and there is nothing to see en-route but thousands of miles of desert. The city sits in splendid isolation on the far western coast of Australia. This is the last date on the BDO tour and everyone seems determined to put on a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1st February Adelaide</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2008/02/07/february-1st-adelaide-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two Melbourne sideshows were out in St Kilda, giving me even more reason to play the Yarra Song, in which I express my support of the local Australian Rules team and how I love the fact that it often rains when we’re in town. After the first show, I awoke to find it tipping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>28th January  Melbourne BDO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went early out to the festival site to catch the set from Anti-Flag. The Pittsburgh punk band have the unenviable job of opening on the main stage at midday, which for a black-clad bunch of spike-tops presents a challenge. Undaunted by the heat and the hour, they’ve been putting in high velocity sets and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>27th January  on to Melbourne</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2008/02/06/27th-january-on-to-melbourne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our little touring party of soundman Grant Showbiz, tour manager Andy James, BDO tour rep John Baker and myself were the last to head out for Melbourne and, just as we were checking out of the hotel, John received a panicked phone call. A member of Arcade Fire had inadvertently forgotten their hurdy-gurdy. Could we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>26th January  Sydney</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sydney sideshow was the best so far, a Saturday night special. One of my favourite songwriters, Mick Thomas, formerly of Melbourne stalwarts Weddings, Parties, Anything opened the evening and he was followed by The Nightwatchman. Both joined me for an encore of Woody Guthrie’s ‘Do Re Mi’. My set also featured a guest spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25th January Sydney Big Day Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went down early to the Essential Stage where Kate Nash again called me up to sing A New England. It works much better this time with me on acoustic guitar, allowing her band to play the song their way rather than accompanying me as they did at the club date a few nights ago.
Then it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 11: Don&#8217;t Try This At Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billy&#8217;s relationship with Go! Discs is threatened as the independent label allows itself to be bought out, and by arguments between the label&#8217;s founder, Andy MacDonald, and Billy&#8217;s manager, Pete Jenner.
Despite this, Go! Discs chucks a very large budget at Billy&#8217;s next studio album, Don&#8217;t Try This At Home. The extra cash, and the contribution [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Billy's relationship with Go! Discs is threatened as the independent label allows itself to be bought out, and by arguments between the label's founder, Andy ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Billy's relationship with Go! Discs is threatened as the independent label allows itself to be bought out, and by arguments between the label's founder, Andy MacDonald, and Billy's manager, Pete Jenner.

Despite this, Go! Discs chucks a very large budget at Billy's next studio album, Don't Try This At Home. The extra cash, and the contribution of Johnny Marr and REM, lead to a Big Pop Production, and promotional videos.

Sexuality, featuring Billy, Wiggy, Kirsty MacColl, Phill Jupitus, et al.

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).</itunes:summary>
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		<title>24th January Promo Day</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2008/01/27/24th-january-promo-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The notion of this festival being the Big Day Off has proved rather hollow for yours truly. Since I got to New Zealand, I’ve been doing loads of promo for the new album on those days when I’m not performing. It&#8217;s all good stuff but it kind of explains why it took me over a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>23rd January  Sydney</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Big Day Out takes the opportunity of the long weekend that marks the peak of the summer holidays here to hit the two biggest cities in the country, Sydney and Melbourne. Australia Day marks the anniversary of the arrival in Sydney Harbour of the first ships bringing prisoners from Britain to found a prison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>23rd January  Byron Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Situated an hour or so south of Brisbane on the east coast of Australia, the locals refer to the Gold Coast as BrisVegas, a sun-baked mix of Blackpool, Surfers Paradise and the Strip. BDO goes there because at the height of the summer break, that’s where the kids are and they turn up in bare-backed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>18th January   Auckland NZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BDO tour kicks off in the Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland. All the dates take place in built environments, either sporting venues or agricultural showgrounds. This makes it a lot easier to get out of the fierce sunlight and to avoid the occasional torrential downpour.
I’m performing on the Essential Stage on a bill that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17th January  Auckland NZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a rejuvenating stop-over in Sydney, my body clock woke me up for the final leg of the trip, three hours across the Tasman into Auckland allowing me to make real progress with Bill Bryson’s ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’. I’m here a few days before the Big Day Out (BDO) kicks off to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12th/13th/14th January  Limbo</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2008/01/25/12th13th14th-january-limbo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Timor Sea goes on forever, or so it seems. Three hours into the third leg of a 30 hour flight that will see us touch down in Dubai, Bangkok and Sydney before arriving in our destination, Auckland, New Zealand. I’m on my way to take part in the biggest festival in the southern hemisphere, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 10: Victim of Geography</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>28:13</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>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 ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>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.

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(Volume 2 NTSC version suitable for North America and Japan, etc is here).</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Episode 9: Where&#8217;s My Playtex?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 1988. Billy, Wiggy, and the Red Stars tour extensively, and work with Natalie Merchant in the States. Billy and Cara Tivey record She&#8217;s Leaving Home for charity, but after the record goes to number one in the UK (with the help of a double A-side from pop act Wet Wet Wet), a hastily-arranged Top [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>33:54</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>It's 1988. Billy, Wiggy, and the Red Stars tour extensively, and work with Natalie Merchant in the States. Billy and Cara Tivey record She's Leaving ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>It's 1988. Billy, Wiggy, and the Red Stars tour extensively, and work with Natalie Merchant in the States. Billy and Cara Tivey record She's Leaving Home for charity, but after the record goes to number one in the UK (with the help of a double A-side from pop act Wet Wet Wet), a hastily-arranged Top of the Pops television performance goes awry thanks to a ladder and special BBC 'heavy' dry ice.

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		<title>Episode 8: Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billy and Wiggy recall the making of Workers Playtime in 1988, and how producer Joe Boyd, some veteran Sixties session musicians, and the wonderful Cara Tivey helped them create a classic album.
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		<itunes:subtitle>Billy and Wiggy recall the making of Workers Playtime in 1988, and how producer Joe Boyd, some veteran Sixties session musicians, and the wonderful Cara ...</itunes:subtitle>
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		<title>Episode 7: The Internationale</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Berlin Wall comes down as Billy tours the States with Wiggy and the rest of the Red Stars. Relieved at the bloodless overthrow of a repressive police state, but dismayed by the West&#8217;s crowing, Billy decides he should examine more closely some of the Communist and socialist ideals that had been expressed in song. [...]]]></description>
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He also describes the background to the DVD 'Here and There' that accompanies the re-issued Internationale and Billy Bragg Volume 1 boxed set.

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		<title>Episode 6: Taxman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johnny Marr and John Porter help Billy find a slicker style of production in the studio as he writes and records the material for Talking With The Taxman About Poetry. The peerless Kirsty MacColl, who had already scored a hit with a pop version of A New England, contributes backing vocals. And a song called [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>33:54</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>Johnny Marr and John Porter help Billy find a slicker style of production in the studio as he writes and records the material for Talking ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Johnny Marr and John Porter help Billy find a slicker style of production in the studio as he writes and records the material for Talking With The Taxman About Poetry. The peerless Kirsty MacColl, who had already scored a hit with a pop version of A New England, contributes backing vocals. And a song called Levi Stubbs' Tears establishes Billy's versatility as a songwriter.

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		<title>12th December - Bristol</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Returning to Hackney Empire after a dozen or so years was a revelation. The theatre was built in 1901 and some of the great music hall acts played there, among them Charlie Chaplin and Marie Lloyd. By the time I started doing my annual New Years Eve shows in 1988, the place was pretty run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8th December - Scotland</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2006/12/17/8th-december-scotland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stung into action by a comment left here, I realised that I’m almost a week behind with my tour blog. Apologies all round but I am a firm believer that this shouldn’t be like homework, rather something done in idle moments between gigs – and unlike in north America, there just haven’t been enough idle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5th December - Glasgow</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2006/12/07/glasgow-5th-december/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In among all the dashing about, there were one or two moments that do bear recounting. The Electric Proms gig at the Roundhouse in London on 26th October was memorable for the fact that, called upon to make a sudden transition from author to singer-songwriter, I suffered a moment of crisis.
In front of a live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December already?</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2006/12/02/december-already/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avid readers of this blog may wonder where November went and frankly, I share your sense of bafflement. The six weeks which have passed since I last posted here have been a blur of activity which has left me scarce time to assimilate, never mind articulate, what has been happening to me.
A book tour is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13th October - On the road again</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2006/10/15/13th-october-on-the-road-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arriving home on Monday afternoon, I had just enough time to kiss the missus, hug the boy, walk the dog and change my underwear before heading out on the road again. As I was whisked off to Birmingham to start the promotional tour for &#8216;The Progressive Patriot&#8217; I realise that, of the twenty four hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 5: Brewing Up with political pop</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2006/10/14/episode-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billy and Wiggy return from America to discover not glamour, but the grim battle of the Miners&#8217; Strike, and Billy is forced to think about his political ideals and articulate them in his writing and performing.
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		<title>Bush War Blues (updated)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billy has recorded a new version of Bush War Blues with updated lyrics.
You are free to download the song, and play it on radio shows, provided writing and publishing are credited to Lead Belly.
The song is based on Lead Belly&#8217;s &#8216;Bourgeouis Blues&#8217;.
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		<title>8th/9th October - Flying Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hit the ground running in Los Angeles – straight from the airport to the CBS TV studios to record a couple of songs on the Late Late Show hosted by Craig Ferguson which goes out at half past midnight on the network, just after David Letterman. Ian McLagan flies in from Texas to do Great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 October - Los Angeles</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2006/10/06/3rd-october-los-angeles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flying over the Hollywood Hills into Los Angeles, what better music to be listening to than that of local boys Little Feat? Lowell George’s classic road ballad Willin’ is playing on my headphones as we swoop low over a sprawling city the colour of the desert sand it is built upon. Just a few days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 4: Brewing Up with the Burns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is 1984 and something approaching Bragg Mania exists in the UK as Billy tops the indie charts. He&#8217;s rubbing shoulders with his heroes The Smiths as well as The Redskins, and he&#8217;s had his face on the front of the NME newspaper - so where does he go from here? Tours America with Wiggy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>29 September - Vancouver</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the inauspicious start, Ottawa turned out to be a cracking gig, a small club with a sold out, mostly stand-up audience. I somehow got on to regaling them with tales from my goat-herding days, specifically details of how the billy goat makes itself sexually attractive to the nanny. I won’t go into it here, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>26 September - Winnipeg</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2006/09/28/winnipeg-26-september/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How hard is it to start a show? Artist appears in the wings, gives nod to back-line tech who flashes his torch at the soundman who puts on the intro music from which the lighting man takes his cue to dim the house lights and bring up the stage lighting, at which point artist magically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>23 September - Ottawa, Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.billybragg.co.uk/wordpress/2006/09/25/23-september-ottawa-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chateau Fairmont is one of those grand turn of the century hotels that were
built at railheads across the British Empire. Its opening in 1912 was delayed for
several months after its owner, the general manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway of Canada, went down with the Titanic. From the outside, it has the
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