Charge your glasses and settle down for a leisurely drink as Tom Hodgkinson chats to musician Sam Lee about his life in songs and new work on the horizon.

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About the speakers:

Sam Lee plays a unique role in the British music scene. A highly inventive and original singer, folk song interpreter, a passionate conservationist, committed song collector and a successful creator of live events. Alongside his organisation The Nest Collective and fellow collaborators Sam has shaken up the live music scene breaking the boundaries between folk and contemporary music and the assumed place and way folksong is heard. He’s injected a renewed passion into this old material, helping to develop its ecosystem by not only inviting in a new listenership but also interrogating what the messages in these old songs hold for us today.

In springtime Sam hosts Singing with Nightingales safaris where you can join him and guest musicians as they improvise a duet with the nightingales' beautiful song in a secret woodland and he is also hosting the new Singing with Nightingales festival.

Sam's recent album, Old Wow, is a truly compelling and emotional record that takes his work to yet another level and our exciting news is that his first book, The Nightingale: Notes on a Songbird, is coming out in March.

Tom Hodgkinson is editor of the Idler and author of the best-selling manuals, How to be Idle and How to be Free. Other books include a book on smallholding called Brave Old World, a book on parenting, the Ukulele Handbook and, most recently, a manual for creative entrepreneurs, Business for Bohemians.

Dr Mark Vernon is a psychotherapist, writer, broadcaster and teacher. He presents several Idler Academy online courses. He has a PhD in philosophy, and degrees in theology and physics. His most recent books include – The Idler Guide To Ancient Philosophy (Idler Books), Love: All That Matters (Hodder) and Jung: How To Believe (Guardian Shorts) – and he has books on friendship, belief and the good life too. Mark can often be heard on Moral Maze. He began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England. For more visit, www.markvernon.com

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