
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


The life of the 'Hillbilly Shakespeare' Hank Williams is the choice of Deacon Blue singer Ricky Ross.
Williams is regarded as being the prototype rock star and continues to be hugely influential on musicians today despite a short recording career of just six years before he died at the age of 29.
Matthew Parris presents.
With Nick Barraclough as the expert witness.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013.
By BBC Radio 44.2
465465 ratings
The life of the 'Hillbilly Shakespeare' Hank Williams is the choice of Deacon Blue singer Ricky Ross.
Williams is regarded as being the prototype rock star and continues to be hugely influential on musicians today despite a short recording career of just six years before he died at the age of 29.
Matthew Parris presents.
With Nick Barraclough as the expert witness.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013.

7,834 Listeners

1,113 Listeners

891 Listeners

1,074 Listeners

5,494 Listeners

1,820 Listeners

1,878 Listeners

614 Listeners

304 Listeners

1,843 Listeners

2,049 Listeners

2,065 Listeners

108 Listeners

46 Listeners

233 Listeners

127 Listeners

162 Listeners

241 Listeners

43 Listeners

3,211 Listeners

771 Listeners

1,044 Listeners

119 Listeners

40 Listeners