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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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  • Bonus EP#16 (Teaser) - Murder Most Foul
    Apr 6 2026

    This is a teaser of Bonus EP#16 - Murder Most Foul. For access to the full episode, and all other bonus episodes, consider becoming a Bobsessive for £5 a month at Patreon.com/bobdylanapproximately.


    Who killed Kennedy? Why spell it G-d? Is it about America’s soul, Lee Harvey Oswald, Houdini, generational trauma or the number 3? What does Nick Cave think? Can you spot the Warren Zevon reference? How many Dylan songs begin with “Twas”? Does the Rough and Rowdy Ways album form a genre of its own? Is it pronounced Sooz or Suzy?


    Recorded at Cathouse Studios, Islington, London.

    Produced by Robin Guise.

    Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin.


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    20 mins
  • EP#16 - Man in the Long Black Diamond Coat
    Mar 30 2026

    What rhymes with “floor” in Black Diamond Bay? What really annoys Dan about the song? What costs less than dessert at a decent restaurant? Why did Joseph Conrad’s picture appear on the album sleeve? How does a clinical psychologist end up directing Sam Shepard and writing with Bob Dylan? What time was Walter Cronkite’s evening news programme?


    Was the man in the long, black coat Bible John or Robert Mitchum? Why does Dylan deliberately play his harmonica out of tune in so many songs? How does one song manage to evoke the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness? Why did PETA campaign against use of the phrase “beating on a dead horse”?


    Recorded at Lipsync Post, Soho, London.

    Produced by Robin Guise.

    Engineer: Roisin King.

    Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin.

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    57 mins
  • Bonus EP#15 (TEASER) - Desert Island Dylan (Part III)
    Mar 23 2026

    This is a teaser of Bonus EP#15 - Desert Island Dylan (Part III). For access to the full episode, and all other bonus episodes, consider becoming a Bobsessive for £5 a month at Patreon.com/bobdylanapproximately.


    Desert Island Dylan (Part III)... In which Kerry and Dan each choose their final two Desert Island Dylan

    songs, with added bells and whistles.


    What’s the major problem with listening to a song like Red River Shore? What do Kostya, Heathcliff and Dylan have in common? How did Kerry’s Hollyoaks audition go? Why do lotus flowers only grow in muddy water? Will the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour ever end? How does the name “Jeff” figure in the lore of the podcast?


    How can an album as weird as John Wesley Harding end up as a musical hug? Who’s sexier, Bob or Leonard Cohen? Who wants it darker? Which song inspired Bob Dylan Approximately to come into being? Why does Kerry repeatedly call The Bob Dylan Center “The Bob Dylan Museum”? Which director do we both choose for our Desert Island Dylan Films?


    Recorded at Cathouse Studios, Islington, London.

    Produced by Robin Guise.

    Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin.

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

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    21 mins
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