Great Lives - Ian Dury

GREAT LIVES - IAN DURY (320kbs-m4a/63mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 27th March 2025

Comedian Linda Smith nominates musician, actor and artist Ian Dury as her choice of a life well-lived.

Presented by Humphrey Carpenter.

With writer, broadcaster and Dury's former manager Charlie Gillett sharing his biographical details.

Together they celebrate the life of the man, who, in the late 1970s, sketched out in song such memorable figures as Clever Trevor, Billericay Dickey and Plaistow Patricia.

Producer: Mark Smalley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003.

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Live Hammersmith Odeon 1979

IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS - LIVE HAMMERSMITH ODEON 1979 (320kbs-m4a/117mb/51mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 16th March 2019

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Clevor Trever
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Inbetweenies
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Don't Ask Me
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sink My Boats
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Waiting For Your Taxi
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - This Is What We Find
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Mischief
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - What A Waste
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sweet Gene Vincent

Reasons To Be Cheerful - Ian Dury And The Blockheads

REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL - IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th December 2018

A documentary presented by Andy Serkis telling the extraordinary story of Ian Dury and the Blockheads - how a disabled art teacher in his mid-thirties fused punk, funk and incredible lyrics to create some of the most important music of the 70s.

Friends and colleagues including Chas Jankel, the Blockheads, Suggs, Phill Jupitus and Ian's son Baxter reflect on a career of "sex, drugs and rock and roll", from the revolutionary "New Boots and Panties" through to Ian's early death and the legacy of the Blockheads, as the band continue to tour.

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Ian Dury - Billericay Dickie
Ian Dury - Wake Up And Make Love With Me
Ian Dury - If I Was With A Woman
Ian Dury - Clevor Trever
Ian Dury - Blackmail Man
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Ian Dury - Blockheads
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - What A Waste
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Ian Dury - Wake Up And Make Love With Me
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Live)
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - This Is What We Find
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Lullaby For Francies
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Waiting For Your Taxi
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3
Quincy Jones - Ai No Corrida
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - I Want To Be Straight
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Superman's Big Sister
Ian Dury - Spasticus (Autisticus)
Ian Dury - Funky Disco (Pops)
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
Ian Dury - Poo-Poo In The Prawn
Ian Dury - Bed 'O' Roses No. 9
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sweet Gene Vincent (Live)
Ian Dury (Robbie Williams) & The Blockheads - You're The Why
The Blockheads - Life In Your Hands
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Lily Allen - LDN
Robbie Williams - Do You Mind
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Live)