This recording comprises tracks 22 and 23 of CD2.

Track 22: Voice of Mel Gooding. 

Track 23: Stephen Farthing interviewed by Cathy Courtney, Artists' Lives, 2009-14, catalogue reference C466/298. © British Library Board.

"Connecting Lines: Artists Talk About Drawing" features recorded extracts edited from an oral history collection, 'Artists' Lives'. The CD was published in 2010 in celebration of 20 years of 'Artist's Lives', funded by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

'Artist's Lives' was initiated in 1990 by National Life Stories, the oral history fieldwork charity based at the British Library. As of 2025 more than 460 life story interviews with artists and art professionals have been recorded for the collection.


Connecting Lines: Stephen Farthing (3)

This recording comprises tracks 24, 25 and 26 of CD2.

Track 24: Voice of Mel Gooding. 

Track 25: Paula Rego interviewed by Cathy Courtney, Artists' Lives, 2002-04, catalogue reference C466/134. © British Library Board.

Track 26: Charles Saumarez Smith interviewed by Cathy Courtney, Artists' Lives, 2007-19, catalogue reference C466/266. © British Library Board.

"Connecting Lines: Artists Talk About Drawing" features recorded extracts edited from an oral history collection, 'Artists' Lives'. The CD was published in 2010 in celebration of 20 years of 'Artist's Lives', funded by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

'Artist's Lives' was initiated in 1990 by National Life Stories, the oral history fieldwork charity based at the British Library. As of 2025 more than 460 life story interviews with artists and art professionals have been recorded for the collection.


Connecting Lines: Paula Rego and Charles Saumarez Smith

This recording comprises tracks 27, 28 and 29 of CD2.

Track 27: Voice of Mel Gooding.

Track 28: Maggi Hambling interviewed by Mel Gooding, Artists' Lives, 1995-96, catalogue reference C466/48. © British Library Board.

Track 29: Norman Ackroyd interviewed by Cathy Courtney, Artists' Lives, 2009-12, catalogue reference C466/293. © British Library Board.

"Connecting Lines: Artists Talk About Drawing" features recorded extracts edited from an oral history collection, 'Artists' Lives'. The CD was published in 2010 in celebration of 20 years of 'Artist's Lives', funded by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

'Artist's Lives' was initiated in 1990 by National Life Stories, the oral history fieldwork charity based at the British Library. As of 2025 more than 460 life story interviews with artists and art professionals have been recorded for the collection.

Connecting Lines: Maggi Hambling and Norman Ackroyd (2)

This recording comprises tracks 30, 31, 32 and 33 of CD2.

Track 30 and 32: Voice of Mel Gooding. 

Track 31 and 33: Michael Craig-Martin interviewed by Melanie Roberts, Artists' Lives, 1998-2002, catalogue reference C466/109. © British Library Board.

"Connecting Lines: Artists Talk About Drawing" features recorded extracts edited from an oral history collection, 'Artists' Lives'. The CD was published in 2010 in celebration of 20 years of 'Artist's Lives', funded by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

'Artist's Lives' was initiated in 1990 by National Life Stories, the oral history fieldwork charity based at the British Library. As of 2025 more than 460 life story interviews with artists and art professionals have been recorded for the collection.

Connecting Lines: Michael Craig-Martin (2)

This recording comprises tracks 34 and 35 of CD2.

Track 34: Voice of Mel Gooding. 

Track 35: Ian Tyson interviewed by Cathy Courtney, Artists' Lives, 1997-2007, catalogue reference C466/63. © British Library Board.

"Connecting Lines: Artists Talk About Drawing" features recorded extracts edited from an oral history collection, 'Artists' Lives'. The CD was published in 2010 in celebration of 20 years of 'Artist's Lives', funded by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

'Artist's Lives' was initiated in 1990 by National Life Stories, the oral history fieldwork charity based at the British Library. As of 2025 more than 460 life story interviews with artists and art professionals have been recorded for the collection.

Connecting Lines: Ian Tyson (2)

This recording comprises tracks 36 and 37 of CD2.

Track 36: Voice of Mel Gooding.

Track 37: Harold Cohen interviewed by Cathy Courtney, Artists' Lives, 2008-11, catalogue reference C466/289. © British Library Board.

"Connecting Lines: Artists Talk About Drawing" features recorded extracts edited from an oral history collection, 'Artists' Lives'. The CD was published in 2010 in celebration of 20 years of 'Artist's Lives', funded by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

'Artist's Lives' was initiated in 1990 by National Life Stories, the oral history fieldwork charity based at the British Library. As of 2025 more than 460 life story interviews with artists and art professionals have been recorded for the collection.

Connecting Lines: Harold Cohen (3)

This recording comprises tracks 38 and 39 of CD2.

Track 38: Voice of Mel Gooding. 

Track 39: Harold Cohen interviewed by Cathy Courtney, Artists' Lives, 2008-11, catalogue reference C466/289. © British Library Board.

"Connecting Lines: Artists Talk About Drawing" features recorded extracts edited from an oral history collection, 'Artists' Lives'. The CD was published in 2010 in celebration of 20 years of 'Artist's Lives', funded by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

'Artist's Lives' was initiated in 1990 by National Life Stories, the oral history fieldwork charity based at the British Library. As of 2025 more than 460 life story interviews with artists and art professionals have been recorded for the collection.

Connecting Lines: Harold Cohen (4)

In this lively conversation, Brandon, Misty, and Whitney talk with The Most Rev'd Sean Rowe, presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church. In this role, he serves as the church’s chief pastor and CEO. Known for his expertise in organizational learning and adaptive change, Rowe is committed to strengthening support for local ministry and mission. This episode offers a wide-ranging conversation, touching upon everything from the role of seminary in spiritual formation, to leadership in a church that is still becoming, to our willingness to engage with God’s imagination. 


Hosts: Brandon Nappi, Whitney Kimball Coe, Misty Krasawski 

Guest: Sean Rowe 

Instagram: @theleadersway.podcast 


berkeleydivinity.yale.edu/podcast 

You can support our work at https://tinyurl.com/support-transforming-leaders 

77: Being Grounded in the Love of God with Sean Rowe

This recording comprises tracks 40 and 41 of CD2.

Track 40: Voice of Mel Gooding. 

Track 41: Maggi Hambling interviewed by Mel Gooding, Artists' Lives, 1995-96, catalogue reference C466/48. © British Library Board.

"Connecting Lines: Artists Talk About Drawing" features recorded extracts edited from an oral history collection, 'Artists' Lives'. The CD was published in 2010 in celebration of 20 years of 'Artist's Lives', funded by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

'Artist's Lives' was initiated in 1990 by National Life Stories, the oral history fieldwork charity based at the British Library. As of 2025 more than 460 life story interviews with artists and art professionals have been recorded for the collection.

Connecting Lines: Maggi Hambling (3)

Listen to this ODNB podcast to learn about the life of Davey Graham (1940-2008).

Graham first laid hands on a guitar—a neighbour's—in 1952 and recalled how in an afternoon he worked out how to play a pavane on it from sheet music. Fired by Lonnie Donegan and the skiffle boom, he finally acquired his first guitar at the age of sixteen. 'I couldn't concentrate at school thinking of Lonnie Donegan. … I was seized with the desire to sound like that, to play that sort of music' (Hunt, Folk routines). He secured his first booking the same year at the Troubadour coffee-house in Earl's Court, a hub for poetry, folk music, flamenco, and other artistic activity. He left school in 1958 in order to concentrate on his guitar playing.

This biography of Davey Graham, written by Ken Hunt, is taken from the ‘Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’. Take a look at the ODNB Website to discover more about the people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
Image credit: © Brian Shuel, 1966 / National Portrait Gallery, London

Davey Graham

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The stories are selected from the 60,000 lives within the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The Dictionary is the national record of people who've left their mark on British history, and is the work of 12,000 scholars worldwide. 

A research project of Oxford University's History Faculty, the ODNB is published by Oxford University Press.

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