Steve Tilston joins Jason Barnard for a tour through six decades of songwriting, picking thirteen tracks from across his career and talking through the stories behind them. Along the way he covers his early days on the London folk circuit, the frustrating experience of his second album on Transatlantic Records, and the decision to put out a record himself in 1976 when very few people were doing it. He also talks about the famous John Lennon letter, written by Lennon in 1971 after Tilston mused in a ZigZag magazine interview that fame and fortune might damage his songwriting, never delivered, and not seen by Tilston until decades later. The story eventually inspired the 2015 Hollywood film Danny Collins, with Al Pacino in the lead role. Plus collaborations with John Renbourn and Maggie Boyle, and his Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Original Song.

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