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Jim Moir on Captain Beefheart
Manage episode 202391286 series 1301287
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.
367 episodes
Manage episode 202391286 series 1301287
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.
367 episodes
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