Guest host Alan Cumming interviews Cyndi Lauper, whose career has taken unforeseeable twists since she exploded into the pop firmament in 1983 with She’s So Unusual. While pop cognoscenti thought she’d burn out fast, 30 years later she’s just won a Tony Award. And the photographer John Dugdale tells Cumming why blindness hasn’t overcome his drive to create indelible images.
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