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Last broadcast on Friday, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks each of three guests to play the track of their choice for the delight or disdain of the others.
Phil is joined by poet Grace Nichols and former Slade frontman Noddy Holder. Noddy uses the record he brings in to help explain his love of rock'n'roll, and Grace's record offers a Caribbean take on Don Juan.
A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.
This week's Music Group.
Come on feel the noise. In the last programme of the present series, Phil Hammond finally gets to talk about his own choice of music, at length. Cue laughter from former Slade frontman Noddy Holder who is very familiar with the object of Phil’s adoration and polite appreciation of the comedy punk rock aesthetic from Caribbean poet, Grace Nichols.
The other songs up for analysis include a cinematic slice of shiny-suit-wearing rock’n’roll and a Trinidadian take on Don Juan. Talk turns to calypso, standing up at the piano and some toilet rolls are thrown in for good measure. At times it gets a bit raucous, a bit wop bop a loo bop a lop bam bam.
(The Joker of Seville, with words by Nobel prize winner Derek Walcott, was written by Galt MacDermott and performed by The Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1974.)
Music choices
The Girl Can’t Help It by Little Richard – Noddy Holder’s choice
Sans Humanité by The Trinidad Theatre Workshop – Grace Nichol’s choice
Beware Of The Flowers (Cos I'm Sure They're Gonna Get You Yeh!) and Geneve by John Otway – from Phil
Broadcasts
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Tue 19 May 200913:30
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Fri 1 Jan 201023:30
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