Jake Thackray: The Unsung Writer by Paul Thompson

Jake Thackray: The Unsung Writer by Paul Thompson

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January 13, 2026 · 1h 4m

About this episode

This episode features a discussion on the life and work of Jake Thackray with biographer Paul Thompson.

Biographer and singer-songwriter Paul Thompson joins us for a new episode of Backlisted devoted to the life and work of Jake Thackray, the so-called 'Yorkshire chansonnier' who died in 2002. Thackray was a man of many talents, as demonstrated by Jake Thackray: The Unsung Writer, a new anthology of his prose and poetry. We invited our friend and fellow fan Andrew Male to join us for a discussion of the teacher from Leeds who lionised Georges Brassens when few outside the French-speaking world had heard of him, and who became famous in the 1960s and 1970s for his numerous TV appearances on shows such as Braden's Week and That's Life, but who later in life sought and achieved near-total obscurity. *For £150 off any Serious Readers HD Light and free UK delivery use the discount code: BACK at seriousreaders.com/backlisted * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show and join in with the book chat, listen without…

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Host: Backlisted

Guest: Paul Thompson

Topics covered

  • biography
  • music
  • literature
  • poetry
  • television
  • cultural history

Keywords

  • Jake Thackray
  • Paul Thompson
  • biography
  • music
  • poetry
  • television
  • cultural history

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