Pavel Klusak: Nick Cave in Nineteen Chapters

A video lecture by music critic Pavel Klusak on Nick Cave precedes a podcast series he has prepared for Czech Radio Vltava.

The programme traces Cave's story in nineteen chapters: how the Australian youth ended up in West Berlin and how he lived there, why the band The Bad Seeds formed so unexpectedly, Cave and Wings of Desire, Cave and drugs, Cave and Brazil, Cave with Kylie by his side, books, film music, his fateful companion Warren Ellis, preaching, transformations, personal tragedy, Red Hand Files.

Cave's stories are accompanied by a striking video playlist spanning the last forty years.