16 October 2026 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio Ulster
Ed O'Brien picks the two songs that stood out on Radiohead's reunion tours, and the teenagers he saw in tears at one of them.
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28 August 2026 · radio
Ed O'Brien on J-Wave
From his office in Wales, Ed O'Brien talks warmly about Japan, where Radiohead first toured in 1994, the year after their first album.
2 July 2026 · video
Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke rewatched Children of Men while ICE detentions in Minneapolis were in the news, and says it made him want to cry.
1 July 2026 · video
Ed O'Brien on Jenny Eliscu
Ed O'Brien faked his voice test at 13 to dodge the school choir, and owned up to the head of music in Cardiff in 2003.
July 2026 · video
Thom Yorke on Rolling Stone
Thom Yorke and Harry Styles question each other, starting from a Rome side street where Yorke answered hello with a swear word.
22 June 2026 · radio
Ed O'Brien on KCRW
Ed O'Brien thought the choir at his new school uncool, faked the voice test, and was glad to go off and smoke cigarettes.
10 June 2026 · radio
Ed O'Brien on Apple Music
Radiohead's first rehearsal in nearly six years started with “Planet Telex”, and they had been through The Bends and OK Computer by lunch.
16 May 2026 · TV
Jonny Greenwood on NPO Klassiek
Jonny Greenwood thinks a young person carrying a cello case is far cooler than one carrying a guitar.
14 May 2026 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 6
Ed O'Brien traces Blue Morpho to the second Covid lockdown, when a lifetime of keeping busy caught up with him.
24 March 2026 · radio
Ed O'Brien on KEXP Podcasts
Ed O'Brien says he cried more in eight weeks of Radiohead shows in the round than in the previous eight years.
17 March 2026 · video
Ed O'Brien on SiriusXMU with Jenny
The strings on Ed O'Brien's “Blue Morpho” went to a composer met in Estonia and were recorded in Tallinn before he knew what they'd be.