Hunting for Prince’s Vault (NEW)
Mobeen Azhar attempts to solve one of pop music’s great mysteries: does Prince really have thousands of unreleased tracks hidden away? And if so, what do they sound like?

First aired:  Saturday 21 March
Broadcast window:  21 – 27 March 2015
Number of episodes: 1

Programme duration: 49 mins 30 secs (23 mins & 26 mins 30 secs) or 59 mins including News bulletins, billboards & promos

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Mobeen Azhar attempts to solve one of pop music’s great mysteries: does Prince really have thousands of unreleased tracks hidden away? And if so, what do they sound like?

This is a journey into the whirlwind creative impulses which animate one of pop music’s most respected figures, Prince. Mobeen visits Paisley Park, Prince’s recording studio, and talks to musicians, protégés and engineers who portray Prince as a modern-day Mozart with an unrelenting urge to make music.  Composer Brent Fischer and protégé Cat share details of their favourite songs from the vault, whilst Sound Engineer, Susan Rogers, provides rare insight into why a lot of that material remains unreleased.

We hear from band mates Sony T, Michael Bland and Eric Leeds about Prince’s creative process and what some of the unreleased material actually sounds like. Plus, Manager Alan Leeds tells us why the vault is believed to have been leaking songs onto the black market for over a decade and how the music in it could be an important part of Prince’s legacy, for decades to come.

BBC broadcast times:
APM Sat 1606 ET
repeat Sun 06:06 ET