My guest today on The Undercover Soundtrack is mystery novelist Margot Kinberg. She says songs and the ideas she gets from them have always been woven into the stories she writes. Her novel B-Very Flat, which spins around the murder of a young music student, drew inspiration from JS Bach to Billy Joel to Andrew Lloyd Webber, influencing the way she developed her characters and understood their troubles. Join me now at the red blog for the full story
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‘The devastation left behind when someone dies’ – The Undercover Soundtrack, Margot Kinberg
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In 18th-century London, Fortnum & Mason used to sell a confection called Dirty White Candy.
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