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THE CURE PLAYLIST (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 1st November 2022
Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches shares her Ultimate Cure Playlist, with a decent helping of hits and some deeper cuts thrown in too. A long-time fan, Lauren retells her relationship with the band, which began at an open mic night in Stirlingshire, Scotland, and ended duetting with Robert Smith at the NME Awards.
The Cure - Love Cats [Fiction]
The Cure - Pictures of You [Polydor]
The Cure - Lovesong [Fiction]
The Cure - Just Like Heaven [Fiction]
The Cure - A Forest [Fiction]
The Cure - Lullaby [Fiction]
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love [Fiction]
THE CURE - LIVE 1985 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 1st November 2022
The Cure recorded live in concert at Birmingham's NEC on 20th September 1985.
The Cure - The Baby Screams
The Cure - Play For Today
The Cure - A Night Like This
The Cure - Primary
The Cure - Kyoto Song
The Cure - The Blood
The Cure - The Hanging Garden
The Cure - Cold
The Cure - In Between Days
The Cure - Let's Go To Bed
The Cure - The Walk
The Cure - Push
The Cure - Screw
The Cure - Sinking
The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
THE CURE - IN THEIR OWN WORDS (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 1st November 2022
Robert Smith from the BBC Archive, including a 2004 John Peel show where he revealed the inspiration behind The Cure's name. An exclusive interview with Matt Everitt ahead of his 2018 Meltdown Festival. Highlights from a 6 Music programme he presented around the same event. And an interview with Steve Lamacq ahead of the band's headline performance at Glastonbury in 2019.
SOUL MUSIC: SERIES 25 - 4. BOYS DON'T CRY (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 9th August 2022
Boys Don't Cry by The Cure is, on the surface, a tribute to teenage angst and a slice of pop perfection.
Lol Tolhurst, the band's drummer, wrote the song with his band mates in Robert Smith's parents' house extension.
Poorna Bell saw the song's lyrics echo her husband's struggle with expressing his emotions, and describes the devastating impact which that can have.
Runner Derek Redmond recalls the moment he lost his 'game face' at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, and Sara Pacella and Jeffrey Axt chart the changing fortunes of a giant Boys Don't Cry poster.
Producer: Sally Heaven.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2018.