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Johnnie Walker's Long Players

Series 4

Episode 2: Talking Book and Thriller

Duration: 57 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 2Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 2

David Hepworth joins Johnnie to discuss Stevie Wonder's Talking Book from 1972 and Michael Jackson's 1982 record breaker Thriller.

The programme includes archive interview clips from Stevie Wonder, his co-producers (and their amazing work with very early computers and synthesisers as Tonto's Expanding Head Band), Rod Temperton (the man behind Heatwave and the title track for Thriller) and Bruce Sweden. Show less

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