Bob Dylan has spent six decades refusing to be who his audience wanted him to be. He was the voice of a generation who denied being the voice of anything, the folk purist who went electric at Newport and got booed off the stage, the secular prophet who found Jesus, the recluse who emerged as a touring machine. Every time the world figured him out, he changed.

This episode traces Dylan from his Minnesota childhood through the Greenwich Village folk scene, the electric controversy, the motorcycle crash, the born-again years, and the Nobel Prize that divided the literary world.

• Robert Zimmerman's reinvention as Bob Dylan and his rapid conquest of the Greenwich Village folk scene
• Going electric at Newport in 1965 and the fan backlash that defined his career
• The motorcycle crash, the Basement Tapes, and the deliberate  ...