Has our special guest, comedian Nish Kumar, officially entered his “Every Grain of Sand” era? What does screenwriting guru Robert McKee have to say about the song? Which small seed-eating bird was used as a cheap source of protein in Biblical times? Why did Nish try to avoid seeing Dylan in concert after 2002? Does he think Bob and Nick Cave have a duty to engage more fully with politics? Why does Nish owe Kerry a thank you? Is Daily Show guest host Jordan Klepper listening to (or watching) BDA?

We are delighted to welcome Nish to the podcast this week. Nish has achieved huge success on the stand-up circuit with five rave reviewed solo stand-up shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, two of which have been nominated for the prestigious Comedy Award for Best Show in both 2015 & 2016.

Alongside stand-up Nish is a frequent voice and face across both television and radio, following a successful pilot in 2016, Nish completed two series of his own topical show for BBC Radio 4, Spotlight Tonight, which he also hosts as well as hosting both The News Quiz, Newsjack and Pod Save the U.K.

Link to the Guardian article Nish references: https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/mar/25/features.review7

Nish’s song Choice: Every Grain of Sand https://open.spotify.com/track/6MfOFYmw1TD9QDFSu0TEN1?si=b4c8ef59b605493a

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Recorded at Lipsync Post, Soho, London

Producer: Robin Guise

Engineer/Editor: Rob Hughes

Additional Editing by Daniel Crespin

Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

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This is a teaser of Bonus EP#9 - Floating and Wiggling (The First Pilot Episode). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month.

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This was our first ever pilot episode, recorded back in March 2025.

Who is this Floater guy? Does his second cousin realise he’s in love with her? Who sang ‘I saw you Talkin’ with Christopher Walken’? What do Dean Martin and the Stanley Brothers have in common? What do fans of Dylan and Tom Waits have in common? Is it too much to ask what ‘too much to ask’ means?

Has ‘Wiggle Wiggle’ been correctly reviled by fans and critics? Or is it an unfairly maligned gem, detailing in code the secrets of his creative process? Do you find it sickening? Sexual? Embarrassing? All of the above? Then why did Bob choose to play it in concert 100 times? Most importantly, can a bowl of soup actually wiggle?

Recorded at Cathouse Studios, Islington, London

Producer: Robin Guise

Editor: Daniel Crespin

Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

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Was Dylan’s voice “at its peak of nasality” on I Want You? How does it figure in A Complete Unknown? Why was the lonesome organ grinder crying? Who was Joni Mitchell’s biggest influence as a songwriter? What’s the possible Brian Jones connection? Who said, “love and sex hang everybody up… it’s just whatever two souls happen to be.”

Which album is worse: Knocked Out Loaded or Down In the Groove? Which song is superior: Brownsville Girl or New Danville Girl? Which 80’s Road movie do they remind you of? Who doesn’t love Ruby? What’s the difference between a flea market and a swap meet? Was Jimmy Ringo (Gregory Peck) standing in for Bob Dylan in The Gunfighter?

Song 1: I Want You https://open.spotify.com/track/7tJQ4Ekp2vN3NlI3vJJW3v?si=61eec8b108004c47

Song 2: New Danville Girl https://open.spotify.com/track/2mtFuEkmXvFFirYgkPZqGQ?si=65093657eb9d40d9

Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast, and hit that follow button. Thanks for your listenership!

Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel's other podcast where he and Kerry met. It's called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, and follow it on Instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcasts/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

Recorded at Lipsync Post

Engineer: Roisin King

Producer: Robin Guise

Editor: Daniel Crespin

Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a teaser of Bonus EP# - Chronicles: Volume One (Part III) (BDA Book Club III). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month.

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Is America still “wrapped up in a blanket of rage”? Which Mohawk/Jewish guitarist stupefied Dylan? What if Bob had played the Woodstock Festival? Who were the “buncha dickheads on autostroke”? Is BD the opposite of Bill Maher and James Joyce? Who was Sun Pie and which Dylan lyric did he write? Why did Allen Ginsberg force Kerry to buy his book?

Bob Dylan Book Club Recommendations:

Dan / Ghost Rider by Neil Peart

Kerry / A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

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Is Dylan’s Lenny Bruce an execrable song, or actually quite good? Which chat show host interviewed both Bob and Lenny? Which seminal album cover featured both of them? What links Peter Cook, Robert de Niro and Bob Fosse? Who is Dylan talking to when he describes Lenny as “more of an outlaw than you ever were?”

Was Rubin Carter ever the Number One contender for the Middleweight crown? Who was the portly Irishman who cried out “My God! They’ve killed them all” in Dylan and Levy’s Hurricane? How many lawsuits were initiated by the song (and the movie)? Which Hollywood actress climbed into the ring with Bob? Who is Winston Watson?

Song 1: Lenny Bruce https://open.spotify.com/track/5d59AKrvfX5vA4gVQAaEBq?si=5542ab3688874259

Song 2: Hurricane https://open.spotify.com/track/1lqMLr9Wj7SM2F9AikGcxN?si=2a74dbf502234f8e

Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast, and hit that follow button. Thanks for your listenership!

Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel's other podcast where he and Kerry met. It's called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, and follow it on Instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcasts/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

Recorded at Lipsync Post

Engineer: Roisin King

Producer: Robin Guise

Editor: Daniel Crespin

Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a teaser of Bonus EP#7 - Chronicles: Volume One (Part II) (BDA Book Club II). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month.

Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!

Is this our longest Bonus episode yet? Why did Dylan call the final chapter of his memoir River of Ice? Whose father asked, “don’t artists paint”? Which vocal tricks did Bob learn from Woody Guthrie? Did he really sing “Buffalo Skinners” for John Wayne on a Hawaiian film set? According to the man himself, what’s the proper pronunciation of “Suze”?

From which London library did Dan steal his copy of On The Road? Which Roman cemetery houses Keats and Corso? Who wrote of “the forlorn rags of growing old”? Who loves Dostoevsky, Hemingway and Stephen King? Who reveres Michel Faber, Elizabeth Strout and Lyndon Johnson biographies? What do Lincoln, Socrates and Dylan have in common?

Dan's Book Recommendation: On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Kerry's Book Recommendation:

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

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Do we ever get over our first broken heart? What drove Billy Connolly’s kids crazy? What’s the connection between singing and acting? Between Dylan and Hemingway? Burton and Eastwood? Kerry and Ben Whishaw? How many of Dylan’s greatest songs, like Tomorrow Is A Long Time, have only three chords? Whose hills are alive with the sound of music?

Is The Girl on the Red River shore Dylan’s muse? Or is she the girl from the film “Red River”? Is the sun actually the sun? Why has the “door” lyric in the song been replaced on bobdylan.com? Why has Bob never played the song live? How did Dylan’s studio band members rate it? From which poem did Bob borrow “trapped in the fires of time”?

Song 1: Tomorrow is a Long Time https://open.spotify.com/track/33sjOTo0KW2w7D9jaUA2pg?si=79f7c60d542f4e93

Song 2: Red River Shore https://open.spotify.com/track/429ZGMMQey0I7ga5TSX9k9?si=a732ceba20ee4b03

Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast, and hit that follow button. Thanks for your listenership!

Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel's other podcast where he and Kerry met. It's called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, and follow it on Instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcasts/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

Recorded at Lipsync Post

Engineer: Tim Sketchley

Producer: Robin Guise

Editor: Daniel Crespin

Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a teaser of Bonus EP#6 - Chronicles: Volume One (Part I) (BDA Book Club I). It is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month.

Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!

Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately

Follow us on YouTube youtube.com/@BobDylanApproximately

If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.