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Songwriters' Circle

on BBC Two England

Concluding the series of acoustic concerts in which hit songwriters share a stage in west London to perform their classic songs as they were first written, collaborate on each other's material, and exchange anecdotes about the stories behind the compositions.
Tonight's musicians are
Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray of the Beautiful South, sixties soul legends Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham , and the iconoclastic Scottish singer-songwriter
John Martyn. Their respective songwriting credits include Rotterdam, Ol' Red Eyes Is
Back, Dark End of the Street,
I 'm Your Puppet, May You Never and Couldn't Love You More.
Director Janet Fraser Crook ; Producer
Mark Cooper

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heaton
Unknown:
Dave Rotheray
Unknown:
Dan Penn
Unknown:
Spooner Oldham
Singer-Songwriter:
John Martyn.
Director:
Janet Fraser Crook
Producer:
Mark Cooper

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