Ep: 72 - Jez Collins of the Birmingham Music Archive on why isn't Birmingham better?

Roifield asks Jez Collins of the Birmingham Music Archive, to if Birmingham is so big why isn’t it better?


"Madam Medusa" by UB40 was a vivid description of Margaret Thatcher's rise to power depicted in a grotesque style, featuring some of the band's most impassioned and bitter lyrics.


Beshara were a reggae band from Moseley, Birmingham, formed in 1976. The band are most notable for their 1981 lovers rock hit "Men Cry Too".


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