My first memory of hearing Richard Thompson is from a Saturday afternoon radio show in 1991, promoting a soundtrack album. The soundtrack stuff was okay, but the songs from ‘Rumour and Sigh’ were incredible.

O, stranger, stranger, I'm near out of time. You stretch out your hand, I stretch out mine. Richard Thompson – “Hand of Kindness” “Hand of Kindness” (1983) This song appeared on Thompson’s second solo