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Great Lives: Jim Moir on Captain Beefheart

Jim Moir on Captain Beefheart

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Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, chooses the life of Don van Vliet - Captain Beefheart.

Comedian Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, chooses Don Van Vliet – aka musician Captain Beefheart. With Matthew Parris. From 2018.

Comedian, actor and artist Jim Moir aka Vic Reeves chooses the life of Don van Vliet - the Dadesque musician and painter Captain Beefheart who has influenced many musicians since the 1960s. 

Jim joins Matthew Parris to discuss the bizarre and complex persona developed by the Californian eccentric who died from MS in 2010.

With Beefheart's biographer, Mike Barnes.
 
Producer: Maggie Ayre

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.

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