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Music Weekly podcast: our verdict on the Mercury music prize

Tim Jonze joins us this week, and brings news of a night spent in a bunker underneath the Mercury prize. We're covering the usual things: did the judges hit the right note by giving James Blake the nod, what does the shortlist amount to, should the Savages really be called the Sausages – and, frankly, what on earth is the Mercury prize for?

Normal service will be resumed next week, when we will have Singles Club, and another episode of Pete Paphides's Parallel History of Pop.

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