Radio 4 to celebrate Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday with series of special programmes
Bob Dylan (Gareth Fuller/PA)
BBC Radio 4 is to mark Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday with a series of special programmes.
The US singer celebrates the landmark birthday on May 24.
On May 17 the radio station will broadcast the first episode of five-part series It Ain’t Me You’re Looking For: Bob Dylan At 80, which will see Professor Sean Latham explore an archive of the musician’s work.
Then on May 22 Dinner With Dylan will focus on the “passionately dedicated world of Dylan fans, or as they dub themselves ‘Bobcats’”, according to a statement from the BBC.