BOB & JOAN ON RADIO 4 NEXT TUESDAY

BBC Radio 4 is running a series called Take Two at 1.30pm (British Summertime) on Tuesday afternoons (though each programme is pre-recorded). It looks at the careers and relationships of prominent musicians who have worked together, and next week concentrates on Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. The talking heads were the great Martin Carthy and, er, me. He said a lot of sane, unassuming stuff, nicely uncontaminated by any over-familiarity with the concerns of us Dylan fanatics, and was warm and cordial both on- and off-mike. I tried to fight the programme's central presumption that Joan was in any way crucial to Bob's career. The producer tells me they've retained some of this.

There's a tiny amount of detail about the show here on the BBC's unfailingly dreadful website, and I'm told it can be heard any time in the week following its broadcast via their so-called "Listen Again" facility - the one that didn't work for Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour shows.

The photograph, source unknown, is from their June 6, 1982 Peace Sunday appearance in Pasadena, California, where they performed 'With God On Our Side', 'Blowin' In The Wind' and, in between these two, the Jimmy Buffett song 'A Pirate Looks At Forty'.