In the final episode of our first season, Jess Abbott from Tancred talks to host Jen Long about a shared passion: the world of Harry Potter.

74: Tancred on Harry Potter

Einar Örn has been famously described as the first punk in Iceland. He played alongside Björk in in the early 80s anarcho-punk outfit Kukl before joining her as a founding member of The Sugarcubes. In recent years he's collaborated with Damon Albarn and Gorillaz as well as making music under his Ghostigital project, and he's also a renowned artist. We talk to him in a special episode recorded in Reykjaviík about....whispers!

73: Einar Örn on Whispers

Sigtryggur Baldursson

Sigtryggur Baldursson - a founding member of The Sugarcubes alongside Björk - and key figure in the Iceland music scene over four decades - tells us about his concerns for the planet in a special podcast recorded at this year's Iceland Airwaves festival.

72: Sigtryggur Baldursson on Climate Change

Milkywhale was born out of a performative project for dance school and has become one of Iceland's most inventive pop artists. Today’s we’re talking to one half of the duo, Melkorka Magnusdottir, about entrepreneurialism.

71: Milkywhale on Entrepreneurialism

Musician, visual artist and former Múm vocalist Sigurlaug Gisladóttir has been a mainstay of the tightly-knit Icelandic music scene for more than a decade - much of that as part of solo-project-come-collective Mr. Silla. In a special podcast recorded at Iceland Airwaves, she tells us about her love of anime.

70: Mr Silla on Anime

Jim White

DIY outlier musician Jim White tells us about his passion for finding old things in a special podcast recorded at this year's End of the Road Festival.

69: Jim White on Scavenging

Alessia Cara

Canadian popstar and singer/songwriter Alessia Cara talks about the awkwardness of adolescence.

68: Alessia Cara on Growing Pains

Michelle Zauner - aka Philadelphia pop experimentalist Japanese Breakfast - talks about her love of Korean food to host Jen Long.

67: Japanese Breakfast on Korean Food

Rhiannon "Ritzy" Bryan from Welsh rockers The Joy Formidable talks about her experiences of living in Utah. The band's new record AAARTH drops on 28 September via Hassle Records.

66: The Joy Formidable on Utah

Samm Henshaw

Rising R&B star and comic book obsessive Samm Henshaw chats to Jen Long about how his favourite books have made it to the big and small screens.

65: Samm Henshaw on Comic Book Adaptations

In Talk the Line our favourite bands and celebs talk about their secret - and not so secret - fascinations, passions and obsessions with ex-BBC Radio 1's Jen Long. The podcast is brought to you by The Line of Best Fit - the UK's biggest independent website for music discovery.

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Charly Bliss

Eva Hendricks is the effervescent frontwoman of Brooklyn power pop band Charly Bliss. Made up of four friends who all went to school together, the band formed in 2014 and also includes Eva’s brother Sam.
Earlier year they released their first album Guppy, which the AV Club called an “instant classic’. They also published a companion comic book which featured contributors like illustrator Tuesday Bassen, comic artist Michael Deforge, and Sadie from Speedy Ortiz and Sad13 each interpreting a different track.
Comics and animation are a big part of Charly Bliss. Guitarist Spencer was the voice of Dash in the massive 2004 movie The Incredibles and Eva is obsessed with comics which is what we’re talking about with her on this podcast.
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22: Charly Bliss frontwoman Eva Hendricks and Comic Books

Singer/Songwiter and Rihanna-collaborator Mikky Ekko joins presenter Jen Long to share his fascination with controlling what happens in your dreams. You can take the Japanese Cube Test mentioned in this episode on David Wolfe's website.

62: Mikky Ekko on Lucid Dreaming

Interpol frontman Paul Banks explains the noble art of boxing to Jen Long. The band's sixth album Marauder is released on 24 August via Matador.

64: Interpol on Boxing

BRITs-nominated popstar Anne-Marie talks about the challenges women and girls face in living up to somebody else's idea of the perfect body.
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20: Anne Marie and Body Image

Stella Donnelly

Stella Donnelly was born and raised in Wales before moving to Australia at the age of ten. Fifteen years later she's one of her adopted country's brightest musical hopes, abandoning her plans to study social work at University in favour of signing to legendary indie label Secretly Canadian.
Stellla is an honest and confrontational lyricist, with signature track "Boys Will Be Boys" addressing victim blaming and written to the rapist of her friend. It features on Stella's debut EP -which gets a reissue this month - and was originally put out on Melbourne's Healthy Tapes label last year, selling out four cassette pressings.
We're talking to Stella today about her fascination with the menstrual cycle.
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57: Stella Donnelly on the Menstrual Cycle

Miles Kane joins presenter Jen Long to explore his passion for WWE - American Wrestling.
With a career stretching back to his mid-teens, Kane's been one of indie rock's most prolific collaborators - notably as part of The Last Shadow Puppets, the band he formed with Alex Turner from Arctic Monkeys. This year he releases Coup De Grace - only his third solo album - which is named for a wrestling move made famous by Finn Balor. Balor also appears in Kane's recent video for "Cry on My Guitar".

63: Miles Kane on American Wrestling (WWE)

Alec Ounsworth is the Pennsylvania-born frontman of Clap Your Hands Say Yeh, one of the most loved US indie bands of the last decade thanks largely to their self-titled 2005 debut and its follow up Some Loud Thunder. The band’s most recent album The Tourist came together after a period of reflection and was lyrically inspired by the likes of Elvis Costello and Paul Simon. As the football World Cup comes to a close, we're talking to Alec about his love of La Liga - the Spanish premier football league.

61: Clap Your Hands Say Yeh on La Liga

Cameron Ralston

Cameron Ralston is the house bassist and a producer for Spacebomb, a collective of musicians based in Richmond, Virginia, who set up a record label and production company based around a house band. They followed a model established by the likes of Stax or Motown, with a signature style inspired by a love of great American soul music. 
As The Guardian put it, "they make albums that sound like a million dollars" - and this and this October they assemble in London for a one off show that will include guest collaborations with the likes of Natalie Prass, Slow Club, The Waterboys' Mike Scott, Foxygen and Charlie Fink from Noah and the Whale.
Ahead of that show we met Spacebomb bassist Cameron Ralston to talk about something he likes to do when he's not in the studio or on the road: gardening.
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21: Spacebomb's Cameron Ralston and Gardening

Kevin Baird is a founding member of Two Door Cinema Club, probably the most successful rock band to ever come out of Northern Ireland. The three members of Two Door met as teenagers in Bangor and made their TV debut at the age of sixteen on a BBC TV music talent show - where they came last. 
In 2007 they conquered social media and chose music over University, releasing their debut EP Four Words to Stand On, the following year. Two Door have had massive success across the world with three massive-selling albums including their platinum-debut Tourist History.
Kevin's talking to us today about his fascination with a difficult period for his country.

58: Two Door Cinema Club on Northern Ireland and The Troubles

Stuart Murdoch

Spirituality and religion have been re-ocurring themes in the lyrics of Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch. In this episode of Talk The Line we talk to him about one of the grandest themes we’ve ever tackled: The Human Condition.
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23: Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch on The Human Condition

Rising star Tom Grennan tells us why football's coming home this year as we explore the unique appeal of the World Cup.

60: Tom Grennan on the World Cup

Kris Hallenga

Kris Hallenga has one of the most inspiring stories of our times. After being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 23 she founded the charity Copafeel with her sister and a mission to educate women about the dangers of late diagnosis. Kris moved to Cornwall last year after many years of London life and that's what we're talking to her about in this episode of Talk The Line.
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19: Kris Hallenga and Cornwall

Lucy Rose

British singer/songwriter Lucy Rose tells us about the joys of being boring.

59: Lucy Rose on Being Boring

Craig Finn

Minnesota-born Craig Finn is the frontman of The Hold Steady and as a huge baseball fan has never been shy about his support for hometown team the Minnesota Twins, even penning a fight song for them back in 2010 - and today we're talking to him about why it's the only sport that matters to him.

56: The Hold Steady's Craig Finn on Baseball

Jack Reacher

Chris and Keith from We Are Scientists go deep in chat on their literary obsession: Jack Reacher, the fictional character created by British author Lee Child.

55: We Are Scientists on Jack Reacher

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