From the Ausfolk list:
Hindsight, ABC Radio National

On Sunday December 9th, 2pm, repeated on Thursday, December 13th, 1pm, there will be a broadcast of a radio program (duly available for the following four weeks online at the link), where Tom Morton explores a forgotten chapter in Australia's musical history -- through the life of a man who worked to rescue it from oblivion.

John Manifold was a collector of Australian folksongs, a musician, and an internationally acclaimed poet.

Manifold was one of the pioneering figures in the Australian folk revival of the 1950s -- a movement which believed folksongs carried within them an alternative, subversive version of our history.

In many ways he was an unlikely champion of the people's music -- born into a family of wealthy pastoralists in Victoria, he went to Cambridge, became a communist and worked for British intelligence in WW2 -- and was kept under surveillance by ASIO in the 50s.

And as we'll hear, he not only collected songs, he also shaped and in some cases constructed them.

Hindsight, ABC Radio National,
Sunday December 9th, 2pm, repeated Thursday, December 13th, 1pm
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/

Cheers, Rowan