“I listen to music when I write. Not all the time, but I find writing to be quite isolating at times because it feels like all the kids are outside playing, and you have to stay inside and work, and it can be lonely, she confessed, naming Brian Eno’s ‘Lay My Love’ for her final track”.

For her fourth track. Gerwig chose Laurie Anderson’s jubilant ‘Baby Doll’ – a far cry from the folkish melancholy of Judee Sill. “This is an incredibly happy song,” she began.

Next up, ‘The Pearl’ by the great Judee Sill, who was signed to David Geffen’s Asylum label. Her songwriting is almost baroque; her lyrics full of hard-won wisdom.

For her second track, Gerwig chose an obscure Phil Spector-produced version of “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah’: “The next song is “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” she began, “which I think most people know from Disney movies.

First on her list was Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds Of Love’, the lead single song from her 1984 studio album of the same name.“I find her lyrics mysterious and evocative – almost like poetry — and there is a real spaciousness to her music that feels cinematic to me,” Gerwig explained.