Pete Townshend: This Cultural Life

BBC Four

11:15 PM to 11:45 PM

Friday 30 January

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The songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of the Who talks to John Wilson about his cultural influences, including his parents, who were both musicians. He reveals how his art-school tutor Roy Ascot shaped his approach to his band that was to become the Who and recounts how reading Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges opened his imagination and helped him expand his musical storytelling