We're joined by Richard Boon to talk all things Manchester, from Buzzcocks to the Smiths and beyond

We invite the inimitable Robyn Hitchcock to reminisce about his heroically nonconformist career

Richard Morton Jack joins us to talk about his monumental new biography of Nick Drake

We ask Lloyd Bradley about his career as a journalist and as the author of Bass Culture and Sounds Like London

Cliff Jones joins us to talk about his shape-shifting career in music, plus Paul Simon and Brian Jones

We ask Sylvia Patterson all about a writer's life lost in music from Smash Hits to the NME and beyond

Sandy Robertson and Edwin (Savage Pencil) Pouncey join us to talk about their careers and shared fascination with the occult

Author and Guardian journalist Andy Beckett joins us to discuss politics and pop from the late '70s to the present day

We welcome music-industry legend Rob Dickins to tell us about his pop life at Warner Bros.

Ellen Sander joins us to discuss her classic 1973 book Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties