Starting on July 27th until 31st  Radio 4 presents Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists over five daily teatime slots. The sainted quintet are an eclectic throng. Mark Knopfler, originally of Dire Straits, is an obvious rocker, John Williams, the classical axeman best known for the tremulous "Cavatina" on the soundtrack to The Deer Hunter, Bonnie Raitt, the flame-haired country singer of "Love Has no Pride", Bert Jansch, the rumpled veteran folkie of Pentangle, the late-1960s band and  Russell Lissack, the twenty-something, floppy-fringed Essex vegetarian from Bloc Party. Read details. Read the Review Read The Article