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Laura Marling (the A-side)

4 Extra Debut. Laura Marling talks about her acclaimed third album, released in 2013, 'Once I Was An Eagle'. With John Wilson. From 2017.

Laura Marling talks about her acclaimed third album released in 2013, 'Once I Was An Eagle'.

Series in which leading performers and songwriters talk about the album that made them or changed them.

Recorded in front of a live audience at the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's iconic Maida Vale Studios, each edition includes two episodes - the A-side and B-side.

In the A-side, Laura Marling. talks to John Wilson

Laura Marling was only 18 when she released her first album... only 21 one when she won the Brit Award for the Best British Female solo Artist... and only 23 when she released the album described as "a masterpiece, and... she's still only getting started" (The Daily Telegraph).

Produced by Ethan Johns, Once I Was An Eagle included tracks like Master Hunter, Where Can I Go? and Saved These Words, deemed to be "her most lyrically mature work... also the most musically satisfying" (The Independent). On the strength of this album she's been referred to as one of the "greatest singer-songwriters of both her generation and generations before it" (Clash Magazine)

In the B-side of the programme, it's the turn of the audience to ask the questions.

Producer: Paul Kobrak

First broadcast on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4 in January 2017.

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