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Phil Cunningham talks to a series of musicians about their lives, careers and influences.

Phil Cunningham talks to a series of musicians about their lives, careers and influences and asks them to pick five songs that were milestones on the way.

My Life in Five Songs: Series 5: Colin Macintyre

Colin MacIntyre

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Colin Macintyre talks about the five songs that have had the most influence on him.

Scottish singer-songwriter Colin Macintyre chats to Phil Cunningham about his career and chooses the five songs that have had the most influence on his career. From Decmeber 2012.

Colin Macintyre is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Growing up on the west coast island of Mull he records under his own name and under the name of Mull Historical Society.

Colin talks to Phil Cunningham about his musical influences and picks five special songs which are important to him and have helped influence his career.

Phil opens the programme with the track The Lights from Colin's latest album City Awakenings.

Colin picks these five songs:


Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

David Bowie - Changes

Radiohead - No Surprises

Bob Dylan - Queen Jane Approximately

The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize

Phil closes the programme with Must You Get Low from the City Awakenings album.

My Life in Five Songs: Series 5

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Some of Scotland's best-loved musicians talk about the music that is important to them.

Some of Scotland's best-loved musicians tell Phil Cunningham about the music that is important to them.

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