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Thread #171905 Message #4159004
Posted By: FreddyHeadey
28-Nov-22 - 07:51 AM
Thread Name: Great Lives series - BBC radio
Subject: Great Lives series - BBC radio
! So many pages and too difficult to define a folk genre so I've included any I spotted with a musical connection.
Here are the ones I'd bookmarked but do check for any I've missed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxsb/episodes/
Louis Armstrong
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dyk53
Josephine Baker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2jg2w
Lionel Bart
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088fg46
Sir Thomas Beecham
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00js9g1
Captain Beefheart
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xjx30
Chuck Berry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g8sz
James Brown
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04d4n8b
Jeff Buckley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06wd26b
David Bowie
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bcgt9x
Ferruccio Busoni
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004l97
John Cage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007xmd1
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glwsr
John Coltrane
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k8t3z
Noel Coward (Julian Clary 2006)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glwcm
Noel Coward (Peter Bazalgette 2003)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076h63
Ian Curtis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b4wty
Ivor Cutler
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vghy
Miles Davis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09z4k9z
Sammy Davis Jr
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wr8pq
Delia Derbyshire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rcpn
Lonnie Donegan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xs8c
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169762)
Jacqueline Du Pre
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zb4bd
Ian Dury
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076j0c
Edward Elgar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076p53
Brian Epstein
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050r0
Kenny Everett
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rvppq
Kathleen Ferrier
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010fd93
Gracie Fields
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07m5ny0
Ella Fitzgerald
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glwbn
Judy Garland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017thf
Marvin Gaye
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076nys
Gilbert and Sullivan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076ngt
Hildegard Von Bingen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014q00c
Billie Holiday
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079n8m
Herbert Howells
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007bd2
Fela Kuti
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0383yt5
John Lennon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t7307
Alan Lomax (Shirley Collins - 2019)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057n4
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=166138)
Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03s718g
Ewan MacColl
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zdqv
Kirsty MacColl
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01322dk
Malcolm McLaren
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wdgxd
Bob Marley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076ds8
Yehudi Menuhin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ykqp
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170221)
Freddie Mercury
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000256j
Thelonious Monk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069rvbl
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=168828)
Jim Morrison
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h0gb
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glx0b
Elvis Presley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vzrt
Prince
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008hx2
Henry Purcell
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043x48v
Rachmaninov
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076dls
Johnny Ramone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012ft5
Franz Schubert
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04c0rjb
Gil Scott-Heron
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016xjy
Ravi Shankar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001b41j
Nina Simone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gj86h
Frank Sinatra
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k3zns
Elliott Smith
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vwsm
Vivian Stanshall
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pcklz
Joe Strummer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007766p
Donna Summer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m0bl
Tchaikovsky
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076l2c
Jake Thackray
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042jhlm
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=168877)
Hank Williams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03kqfzz
Ralph Vaughan Williams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pfxj3
Tony Wilson
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017482
Victoria Wood
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hvlh
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