Ep32: Mike Batt on 50 years of writing songs, and the need for anti-gravitational brandy sauce

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In this conversation, we discuss how a teenage Cat Stevens inspired a slightly younger teenage Mike Batt to write songs, blagging versus reaching - using projects to teach yourself how to do the thing you've been hired to do, savvy negotiating - how refusing a one-off payment to write for The Wombles while broke led to great things, what it feels like to bet hundreds of thousands of pounds on an artist through buying TV advertising and why someone needs to invent anti-gravitational brandy sauce.

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Until next week... xoxo

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