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Episode 5

Author and former magazine editor David Hepworth discusses our enduring relationship with vinyl albums. Other musical formats have come and gone but even in the age of streaming, the 12-inch LP is prospering. In the final talk in this series, he recalls writing and commissioning record reviews.

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