E946 - Pauline Black of the Selecter, the girl who invented the Rude Girl

Pauline Black was seen singing Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell songs in Coventry folk clubs and recruited by a local reggae band. Then converted to ska and joined the Selecter - back on tour this summer and with a box-set of live recordings, ‘The Selecter at the BBC’. She looks back here at …

… their first gig with Madness for 47 years in Brighton – “very red fezzy!”

… her Sliding Doors moment supporting Bert Jansch

... discovering the Pioneers, Prince Buster and the Skatalites through white skinheads in Coventry

… the famous 2...