Real Folk with Jo Burke

Jo Burke

Real Folk - Inspiring life stories. Jo chinwags with guests from diverse backgrounds and delves into their lives so far. Guests include actors, adventurers, comedians, dancers, artists, singers, filmmakers, foster carers, authors, entrepreneurs, linguists and more. Who would we be without our stories? Sharing, listening and learning about our experiences is the essence of being human.

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Real Folk with Jo Burke

Episodes (27)

Dec 11, 2025 26. Marc Burrows - Author, critic, comic & musician
Oct 2, 2025 25. Claire Storey - Stage and TV Actor/Writer
Aug 28, 2025 24. Sarah Callaghan - Spoken word artist & award-winning comedian

Real Folk with Jo Burke

Dec 11, 2025
38½ minutes
53 MB

Jo chews the Christmas fat with author, critic, comic and musician, Marc Burrows. Jo delves deeper into what inspired Marc's latest book The Story of the Christmas No.1 - Mistletoe and Vinyl. Listen up for some festive music facts. Find out why Simon Cowell makes the X Factor winner a Christmas No.1, why The Beatles are to blame for everything and who tried to ban Christmas. He writes, mostly about music and film, for The Guardian, The Observer, The Quietus, the i Paper, Music OMH, the New Statesmen and Hey U Guys among many others. His biography of...

Real Folk with Jo Burke

26. Marc Burrows - Author, critic, comic & musician

Jo Burke

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