BBC WS Documentary - 'Bob Dylan - In So Many Words'
Presented by Marco Werman
Broadcast December 11, 2016
Coded from a digital source at 128/44.1

Bob Dylan's Nobel prize

Why did Dylan become the first songwriter to win the award?

Was he worthy of it?

BBC Blurb
In typical fashion, Bob Dylan has turned down the offer to go to
Sweden this week to pick up his Nobel Prize for Literature. Instead
a speech he has written will be read out and Patti Smith will perform
in his stead.

Marco Werman speaks to people who know Dylan, have worked with him
and to those who have simply observed his topsy-turvy career to find
out why the musician’s lyrics have such resonance.

Writers deconstruct the verse of some of the most famous songs that
have become worldwide soundtracks and discuss whether Dylan is a poet
following the grand tradition.

Contributors include Pulitzer Prize winning poet and literature professor
Rae Armantrout, Richard Thomas, Classics professor at Harvard University,
the Lebanese American novelist Rabih Alemeddine, and Dylan authors
Howard Sounes and Sid Griffin.