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Graham has been listening to Paul McCartney's new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane and it shows he is still firing on all cylinders, nearly - at the age of 83.

Two new cinema releases, Tuner (starring Leo Woodhall with a cameo from Dustin Hofmann) and The Christophers come under Charles and Graham’s restless gaze.

Graham reports on Lence, the Harrogate rapper - who doesn't swear - and is now a legend on the Leeds spoken word scene.

Graham talks up South London's monstrous indie dance rockers Fat Dog, whose new single may show an alarming mellowing of their fearsomely unhinged style.

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Graham reports on the occasion when rock royalty met tearoom royalty: what he learned by chatting to Richard Hawley & Chris Difford at Bettys in Harrogate.

Graham has also found a new way of seeing The Beatles in Ian Leslie's book John and Paul and maybe a new way of destroying them.

Charles reviews John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers The Play: a good conversion from screen to stage?

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Interview special with comedian Daliso Chaponda.

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After Bone Temple's underwhelming performance at cinemas, do Danny Boyle and Alex Garland deserve the chance to complete the 28 Years Later trilogy?

Leeds Literature Festival returns but are there too many of these things?

Looking ahead to talking about Boston in the next Vinyl Sessions in Harrogate - not the city, by the way...

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Graham reports on the mellowing of controversial French author Michel Houllebecq as testified by his most recent novel, Annihilation.

How the Eurovision Song Contest lost its place and gained a huge young audience instead, as shown by a new exhibition at Bradford's National Science and Media Museum.

Graham and Charles are looking forward to new album and tour by Leeds band Yard Act.

Charles reports on a new film and a new play: Mark Jenkin's film, Rose Of Nevada and The Psychic a play by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson, receiving its world premiere at York Theatre Royal. One is definitely a ghost story; the other, a clash of spiritualists.

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Graham argues that indie/alt music is now only a hobby according to The Guardian. But is it partly to blame?

Graham previews his and Rob Cowen's Vinyl Sessions event in Harrogate.

Charles reviews The Devil Wears Prada 2.

Charles wonders about the significance of a new Banksy statue.

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AI continues to find its way into every corner of our lives and even the bank balance of former PM, Rishi Sunak.

Graham is moved to discuss the strange success of comic writer Tim Key, whom he watched up close on stage in Leeds.

He follows this up with a new book of history that by being brilliant is missing the point - The Guardian foreign correspondent Jason Burke's new book The Revolutionists - The Story of the Extremists who Hijacked the 1970s.

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Graham takes a look at what is potentially the graveyard of filmmakers: is the new cinema adaptation of Albert Camus's The Stranger by François Ozon any good?

Queen in space and Harrogate's six degrees of separation link to Artemis II's recent mission to the Moon.

New BBC TV drama Mint uses Graham’s childhood streets in Grangemouth as its main location. Graham relives his youth.

From the Blues Bar to City Varieties: Graham talks up Harrogate rapper Lence’s biggest event in Leeds to date, Blur the Lines at The Leeds Jazz Festival, Leeds City Varieties.

The Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition is venturing from its usual York base to galleries in Skipton, Harrogate and Scarborough.

Charles has been reading Evan Dando’s memoir, Rumours of My Demise. The Lemonheads frontman keeps it real.

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In their latest Interview Special, Charles and Graham interview Sheffield artist, Pete McKee.

About Pete McKee:

Pete McKee is a Sheffield-born artist whose work greatly reflects and embodies his experiences of growing up on a council estate surrounded by working-class culture and humour. It is this down-to-earth and nostalgic thread that runs through all of his work that has gained him a worldwide following. Pete also runs the Pete McKee Gallery, based at Leah's Yard in Sheffield.

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