Confessions natural history they make Marr’s Guitars a

they make Marr’s Guitars a unique cultural history of modern music and guitar playing told through the prism of Johnny Marr’s experiences and achievements

life on Earth will be profoundly changed by heat and drought - and that means dust

of innocence lost and the persistence of nature's cycles

It draws on the medieval writers and Romantic poets who emphasised the sanctity of the environment

Bach and Beethoven

Confessions natural history they make Marr’s Guitars aBrought face to face with the author of his obituary and his own inevitable mortality, Edward Stourton is prompted to reflect on the life he has led and the events that have shaped him. Ed was born into a life of privilege: the son of expat parents in colonial Nigeria, he was sent back to Britain to be educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth, the public school now tarnished by revelations of decades of abuse. He then went up to Cambridge, where