11.30am Tuesday 8 November BBC Radio 4
Steve Earle's Songwriting Bootcamp

For songwriting, it helps if you have lived a little. Earle has lived a lot: seven marriages, jail time, cocaine and methadone addiction.

Also teaching is Shawn Colvin. She tells Levinson that great songwriters approach a subject indirectly. "Try to come in the side door."

John Bungey, The Times