A RADIO adaptation of a book written by a Cobham woman about her life with an American rock legend during the late 60s and early 70s will be broadcast next week.
Frank Zappa And Me, a dramatised version of Freak Out! My Life With Frank Zappa by Pauline Butcher Bird, hits the airwaves on Tuesday at 2.15pm on BBC Radio Four.
The Fairfield Park resident said: "The play takes place from 1967 to 1972 when I was a straight English girl suddenly immersed in the centre of a rock 'n' roll maelstrom in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood."
She added: "This is my first book and it is very unusual for a first book to be adapted into a radio play so I feel chuffed about that."
Matthew Broughton's 45-minute adaptation of her memoir, which stars Ronan Summers and Lucy Briggs-Owen, begins when Pauline meets the unconventional avant-garde musician on a trip to promote the Mothers of Invention's first concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
After asking her to type the lyrics of his second album, Absolutely Free, the young Pauline finds herself unable to understand the strange words.
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