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Legendary radio maker Piers Plowright recommends The Voices of Robert Wyatt:

"A fascinatingly honest self portrait of the English musician and founding member of Soft Machine.

"Radio at its most intimate – as if we are taking tea (which at one point we are) with the storyteller – Wyatt himself. The story flows through his life and work, taking in artistic and musical influences, all told in a deceptively casual way, making light of the triumphs and disasters. In the background we sense the presence of Wyatt’s artist wife, Alfie, and her importance to him, though she never says a word. "Life," says Wyatt near the end of the programme, "is liking climbing a mountain and looking down; as we climb, the village from which we started gets smaller as the landscape gets bigger.

"This programme makes me think of a great virtue in any good radio documentary: simplicity."