Music biographer, reviewer, and co-founder of elvinyl.com Richard Morton Jack joins host Jeremy Thomas to discuss 'Nick Drake: The Life' and much more. Many people thought that Nick Drake was going to be hugely successful in the 1970s. His three albums were all critically acclaimed, yet did not sell. Tragically, he took his own life when he was 26. However, ever since his death, his popularity has continually increased throughout the world. This episode sets the record straight on unanswered questions about Nick Drake’s private life and his demise. Was it possible he had severe depression or schizophrenia? Was it possible he was going to marry someone? What would have happened to his mental health had he been alive today? Thanks to the unfettered access to private correspondence, tapes, university friends, family friends, and female acquaintances, Richard Morton Jack sympathetically but objectively unveils Nick Drake's private life, medical history and much more.

Clive Brooke became Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe in 1995.He is considered to be one of the hardest working peers in the House of Lords. The motto inscribed on his coat of arms is 'one day at a time.' His first major job was in the Inland Revenue Staff Federation, eventually becoming General Secretary thereof and its successor, the Public Services Tax and Commerce Union. 1989 – 1996 he became initially, a TUC General Council member; then a member of the Executive Committee. Public service runs through his veins. Lorna Roberts came into his life and they married in 1967, over 55 years ago. A bumpy ride, and by his own admission, he was not the best of husbands at times. However, in his early forties, owing to his behaviour around his addiction to booze, food and sex, the wheels to his personal train began to fall off. A grim doctor's warning that death was just around the corner caused him to change his life. What follows is a super candid account of how things worked out. •