How do you manage to fit into one hour everything that Bob Stanley has done - his band, his tours, his journalism, his books, his compilations? For Ace alone, he’s put together albums covering everything from a double CD of Charlie Rich’s Groove & RCA recordings and a compendium of folk legend Robert Kirby’s orchestrations, as well as delving into the global politics of the late sixties and the effect of street-rioting and high-profile assassinations on everyone from Frank Sinatra to Serge Gainsbourg with “State of the Union” and “Paris In The Spring” respectively.

The answer is, you can’t. So our host Pete Paphides also opts for asking Bob questions from a tin, Smash Hits-style! Hurray! So you can hear what Bob has to say about Roy Orbison’s dark side but you can also find out what he thinks of the logistics of running a butcher’s shop with Sam Fox.

We’ll no doubt be inviting Bob back soon as there’s so much more to say (Or as Smash Hits would put it: back! back! BACK!!!)

Lovingly presided over for us by journalist, record collector and broadcaster Pete Paphides. The Ace Records Podcast features interviews with guests from many branches of the extended Ace family, detailing their own careers, the artists that have influenced their lives and the records that they love, all enjoyably explored over two microphones and plenty of cups of tea.

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