Written by Bob Dylan
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In May 2011, BBC Radio broadcast a special season of programmes to celebrate Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday. There were around 25 in total. Some were purely music shows, others took a more documentary style and there were some discussion shows which looked at different aspects of the man's life and career.

I’m in the midst of uploading all of these in the order they were broadcast (with the exception of the 6-part Bob Dylan Story and Blowin’ in the Wind: Bob Dylan’s Spiritual Journey, both of which are already available on Demonoid).

This is upload number 15, the third in a 4-part series called Changing Times from BBC 6 Music. This episode is entitled 1989, Oh Mercy and it looks at how Dylan turned his career around again at the end of a decade.

In the programme, John Wilson looks back at 1989 and the album Oh Mercy, which was seen as a comeback and was the first album Dylan had written entirely himself for four years. Recorded in an imposing house in New Orleans and produced by Daniel Lanois (who had been recommended to Dylan by Bono), it was widely regarded as his best album for several years. Contributors include people who played and worked on the album.