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(This program was broadcast Sunday, February 8th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org)

Author’s note by Wayne Cresser

Before snowstorm related parking bans canceled live-in-the studio opps for a couple of weeks (1/18 and 1/25) and before I was kidnapped by pirates last Sunday (2/1), I spent the second Sunday of the year in New Orleans, which I learned, is now being referred to as the Hollywood of the South because of all the film and television production happening there. Most recently in the theaters, the horror film, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 and the dramedy, Ella McKay, were shot on the streets of that grand old city.

Certainly, I will have more to say about all that further on down the road, but first, I must say that even though I was up against Superbowl XL, a professional football contest that this year, featured our local club, I think PT 118 was one of the best so far, simply because of its main attraction, the inimitable Robyn Hitchcock, who has the rare distinction of being the subject of two film documentaries, Jonathan Demme’s Storefront Hitchcock (1998) and John Edginton’s , Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death…and Insects (2007).

We got to those things and more on Picture This 118.

2/9/2026

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Part One: Picture This begins at 01:03:00

Part Two of Picture This (below)

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All Songs written and performed by Robyn Hitchcock (unless otherwise indicated)

From Storefront Hitchcock (with Tim Keegan and Deni Bonet)

Spleen Rap

I’m Only You

Yip! Song

From Spooked (with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings)

Welcome to Earth

Television

We’re Gonna Live in the Trees

From Storefront Hitchcock

Alright Yeah

Covers

Baby Let me Follow You Down from Robyn Sings (traditional)

Waterloo Sunset from 1967, composed by Raymond Douglas Davies

The Ghost in You from The Man Upstairs, composed by Richard and Tim Butler

Eclectic Hitchcock

Balloon Man (with the Egyptians) from Globe of Frogs

Globe of Frogs (with the Egyptians)

N.Y. Doll from Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death… and Insects

Sunday Never Comes from Juliet Naked, composed by Robyn Hitchcock, performed by Ethan Hawke

My Wife and My Dead Wife (with the Egyptians) from Gotta Let This Hen Out

From Storefront Hitchcock

Spoken Word Intro

Beautiful Queen

One More

I Want to Destroy You from Underwater Moonlight, composed by Robyn Hitchcock, performed by the Soft Boys

 

From Wonderwall, songs composed by George Harrison

In the First Place

The Inner Light

 

From A Mighty Wind

When You’re Next to Me, composed by Eugene Levy, performed by Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara (as Mitch and Mickey)

A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow, composed by Michael Mckean and Annette O’Toole, performed by Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara (as Mitch and Mickey)