This is a recording of the full 90-minute show, intended for those who could not make it to London for the event. Access to the recording costs $5 (around £3.65). An edited version will be available as a free podcast from October 1.

Nick Lowe - songwriter, hitmaker, anecdotalist, Renaissance man of pop - joined us at the intimate Seven Dials Club off Covent Garden on August 20, to celebrate the launch of the paperback of his biography, 'Cruel to be Kind'. Nick was in conversation with his biographer Will Birch and journalist (and longtime Lowe fan) Duncan Steer.

The book traces Nick's journey from an unusual childhood to his many-sided pop career: from his own New Wave hits to producing Elvis Costello's first five albums, as well as the first-ever punk single (by The Damned) and The Pretenders' debut; writing for Johnny Cash, his one-time father-in-law and having his songs covered by an improbably broad church of singers, from Rod Stewart and Diana Ross to Engelbert Humperdinck. Nick's self-reinvention in recent years as the laidback laureate of regretful middle-age has led critics to suggest he is the only rock/pop artist ever to have improved with age.

This is a recording of the full 90-minute show, intended for those who could not make it to London for the event. Access to the recording costs $5 (around £3.65). An edited version will be available as a free podcast from October 1.