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Thread #170608   Message #4206536
Posted By: Joe Offer
05-Aug-24 - 06:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Cable Street (London 1936) The Young'uns
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cable Street (London 1936) The Young'uns
from Vikki Appleton Fielden:

The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff
Award-winning north east folk band The Young'uns - Sean Cooney and David Eagle with Jack Rutter (for Michael Hughes) present their production of The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff, recorded in front of a live audience in their hometown of Stockton-on-Tees. It's the true story of one man's journey from unemployment, through the Hunger Marches of the 1930s, the mass trespass movement and the Battle of Cable Street, to fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War. A touching and often hilarious musical adventure, its themes of war, hunger, poverty and displacement have a powerful resonance almost a hundred years on.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016rh2