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The Blagger's Guide. Image of David Quantick. Image credit: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

The Blagger's Guide

David Quantick presents comical, occasionally fabricated quick-fire guides to various musical genres

AKA:
Blagger's Guide To The Classics; The Blagger's Guide To Country
Genre:
Monologue
Broadcast:
2005 - 2008  (BBC Radio 2)
Episodes:
28 (5 series)
Starring:
David Quantick, Lewis Macleod, Kate O'Sullivan
Writers:
David Quantick, Simon Poole
Production:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

David Quantick presents a lighthearted guide to music, in which not every fact is a truth.

In the first two series The Blagger's Guide aimed to provide an encyclopaedia guide to rock and pop. Entries on artists, movements and places as diverse as Sheffield, Folk, Stadium Rock, Stax and Madonna all featured.

The third series switched to looking at The Classics - Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky and music of that ilk.

Series four, lengthened to eight episodes, returned to the topics of rock and pop. Whilst in this latest series, David Quantick is looking to teach us more about Country music.

Our Review: It's hard to describe Quantick's presenting style, we guess we'll have to settle for calling it 'unique', but in a good way. He has a fantastic way with words that makes any topic interesting (even classical music)!