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Thread #146595   Message #3756531
Posted By: The Sandman
07-Dec-15 - 04:37 PM
Thread Name: Can a pop song become traditional?
Subject: RE: Can a pop song become traditional?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Aug 07 - 02:42 PM

John Brune was the arsehole who professed to be interested in Travellers - and did some collecting from them, but deliberately attempted to sabotage the first and most important radio programme about them,(the Radio Ballad, The Travelling People). He was partly successful as he managed to remove Sheila Stewart from the programme.
More information is to be found from Bob Pegg's article on Sheila Stewart on Living Tradition webpage and my letter published in the following edition
Jim Carroll