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Andrew Collins hasn't decided what he is yet. He writes scripts, mostly. But he also broadcasts on BBC 6 Music; having been a proud part of the network's launch line-up, he is now a willing sub, often popping up at breakfast. He is also Film Editor at the Radio Times and films a weekly TV review for The Guardian called Telly Addict. He once penned episodes of EastEnders, then moved into sitcom with BBC2's Grass (co-written with star Simon Day), BBC1's award-winning Not Going Out (co-written with star Lee Mack), Radio 4's Mr Blue Sky and, most recently, Sky Living's team-written Gates. He is script-editing the first Pappy's sitcom for BBC3. He also writes books, including the biography of Billy Bragg, Still Suitable For Miners, and a trilogy of memoirs, Where Did It All Go Right?, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now and That's Me In The Corner, which detail his evolution from latecoming Northampton punk via a brush with provincial New Romanticism to fully-flown Goth and part-time art-school B-Boy, and a ramshackle media career from the NME during the Madchester years, to Select for Grunge and Q for Britpop. It was at 6 Music in the early days that Andrew's first producer, Frank Wilson, broadened his musical mind and whose infectious enthusiasm accounts for much of the music chosen here. Cheers, Frank!

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Jon Savage is an author, filmmaker, journalist and broadcaster. His books include England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, and 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded. His film credits – as writer and consultant – include The Brian Epstein Story, Joy Division and Teenage. He writes regularly for the Guardian and Mojo and has released several compilations including “Meridian 1970”, “Dreams Come True: Classic First Wave Electro 1982-7”, “Black Hole: Californian Punk 1977-1980”, “The Shadows Of Love: Jon Savage’s Intense Tamla 1966-68” and “Perfect Motion: Jon Savage’s Secret History Of Second Wave Psychedelia 1988-93”.

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Arthur Mathews has written for television since the early 1990s. Among the shows he has created and/or written (many with co-writer Graham Linehan) are Toast of London, Paris, Father Ted, Hippies, Big Train, The All New Alexei Sayle Show, Brass Eye, Harry Enfield and Chums, The Fast Show, Black Books and The Eejits. He has written a ‘bogus memoir’, Well Remembered Days, as well as The Craggy Island Parish Newsletters, Father Ted - The Complete Scripts (with Graham Linehan) and The Book Of Poor Ould Fellas (with Declan Lynch). As a cartoonist he contributed Doctor Crawshaft's World Of Pop to the New Musical Express and The Chairman to the Observer Sport Monthly. In the theatre, he created the long-running musical I, Keano. His film Wide Open Spaces was released in 2009 and he has recently cowritten (with Paul Woodful) the sitcom Val Falvey starring Ardal O'Hanlon.

Stuart Braithwaite is a Scottish guitarist, bassist, drummer, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist of post rock band Mogwai, with whom he has recorded eight studio albums.

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Suzi is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2. As a child in 1950s Detroit she absorbed rock 'n' roll from the radio and her older siblings' record collections. She remains passionate about the music from the golden era of the fifties and sixties with all its energy, innocence and romance.

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