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Bob Dylan Approximately

Bob Dylan Approximately

By: Daniel Crespin and Kerry Shale
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A podcast about all things Bob Dylan...approximately.


Actors Kerry Shale and Daniel Crespin - a Canadian Boomer and an English Millennial - dive deeply into a mutual love of Bob Dylan's work.


Content Warning ⚠️ : Flippant humour, mysterious lyrics, and unexpected tangents.


For bonus episodes, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/c/BobDylanApproximately

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Daniel Crespin and Kerry Shale
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  • Bonus EP#8 (TEASER) - Chronicles: Volume One (Part III) (BDA Book Club III)
    Dec 8 2025

    This is a teaser of Bonus EP# - Chronicles: Volume One (Part III) (BDA Book Club III). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month.


    Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!


    Is America still “wrapped up in a blanket of rage”? Which Mohawk/Jewish guitarist stupefied Dylan? What if Bob had played the Woodstock Festival? Who were the “buncha dickheads on autostroke”? Is BD the opposite of Bill Maher and James Joyce? Who was Sun Pie and which Dylan lyric did he write? Why did Allen Ginsberg force Kerry to buy his book?


    Bob Dylan Book Club Recommendations:


    Dan / Ghost Rider by Neil Peart

    Kerry / A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole


    Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately

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    If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod


    Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

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    21 mins
  • EP#8 - The Men the Authorities Came to Blame
    Dec 1 2025

    Is Dylan’s Lenny Bruce an execrable song, or actually quite good? Which chat show host interviewed both Bob and Lenny? Which seminal album cover featured both of them? What links Peter Cook, Robert de Niro and Bob Fosse? Who is Dylan talking to when he describes Lenny as “more of an outlaw than you ever were?”


    Was Rubin Carter ever the Number One contender for the Middleweight crown? Who was the portly Irishman who cried out “My God! They’ve killed them all” in Dylan and Levy’s Hurricane? How many lawsuits were initiated by the song (and the movie)? Which Hollywood actress climbed into the ring with Bob? Who is Winston Watson?


    Song 1: Lenny Bruce https://open.spotify.com/track/5d59AKrvfX5vA4gVQAaEBq?si=5542ab3688874259

    Song 2: Hurricane https://open.spotify.com/track/1lqMLr9Wj7SM2F9AikGcxN?si=2a74dbf502234f8e


    Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast, and hit that follow button. Thanks for your listenership!


    Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately


    Follow us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BobDylanApproximately


    If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel's other podcast where he and Kerry met. It's called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, and follow it on Instagram @starvingartists_pod


    Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcasts/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669


    Recorded at Lipsync Post

    Engineer: Roisin King

    Producer: Robin Guise

    Editor: Daniel Crespin

    Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

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    51 mins
  • Bonus EP#7 (TEASER) - Chronicles: Volume One (Part II) (BDA Book Club II)
    Nov 24 2025

    This is a teaser of Bonus EP#7 - Chronicles: Volume One (Part II) (BDA Book Club II). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month.


    Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!


    Is this our longest Bonus episode yet? Why did Dylan call the final chapter of his memoir River of Ice? Whose father asked, “don’t artists paint”? Which vocal tricks did Bob learn from Woody Guthrie? Did he really sing “Buffalo Skinners” for John Wayne on a Hawaiian film set? According to the man himself, what’s the proper pronunciation of “Suze”?


    From which London library did Dan steal his copy of On The Road? Which Roman cemetery houses Keats and Corso? Who wrote of “the forlorn rags of growing old”? Who loves Dostoevsky, Hemingway and Stephen King? Who reveres Michel Faber, Elizabeth Strout and Lyndon Johnson biographies? What do Lincoln, Socrates and Dylan have in common?


    Dan's Book Recommendation: On the Road by Jack Kerouac

    Kerry's Book Recommendation:


    Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately

    Follow us on YouTube youtube.com/@BobDylanApproximately


    If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod


    Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    15 mins
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