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Band Politics - 2018 Art of Now Chris Hawkins investigates a new wave of politically engaged bands that are defining the current alternative music scene, including Nadine Shah, Idles, Life and Cabbage. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b87m2h
Bob Dylan It Ain't Me You're Looking For: Bob Dylan at 80 - 2021 Each episode focuses on a theme from a different period, encompassing his career. • Learn Your Song Well (1941-1964) • Bleeding Genius (1964-1966) • Vanishing Acts (1966-1979) • This Train (1979-1993) • High Water Everywhere (1993-2021) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w331/episodes/guide
Gospel Truth - 2016 Financial educator Alvin Hall explores how American gospel music became a global force through commercialisation. Two episodes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zrcxq/episodes/player
The Horse at the Door - 2024 Illuminated Every year's end, as the days shorten and the nights grow darker, you might be fortunate enough to hear a distinctive knock at your door. Upon opening it, you'll be met with a group of Guisers - men in disguise - here to perform their mystery play, part of the ancient Mumming tradition. There's the Enterer In, Saint George, The Prince of Paradise, The King, The Old Woman, The Quack Doctor, Beelzebub, Little Johnny Jack with his wife on his back, Little Devilly Doubt, The Groom, and The Horse. She[Isy Suttie] will speak to local pub owners and residents about The Guisers habit of bursting in, to the folklorist Richard Bradley about the Derbyshire traditions of mumming and guising, to the psychotherapist Jane Watson about why we enjoy being scared, and to The Winster Guisers themselves about the traditions they are keeping alive – and the children they are scaring. With thanks to The Winster Guisers, Richard Bradley, Jane Watson, Colette Dewhurst at The Barley Mow, The Miners Standard and - especially - The Old Horse. The Music is by Jane Watkins and Isy Suttie It is produced by Laura Grimshaw www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00268v1
Jock Purdon, the Miners' Poet - 2015 Billy Bragg tells the story of Jock Purdon and the history of songwriting about coal mining in the north east and how the miners' strike of 1984-85 awakened him politically. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0540gzz mudcat thread mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=156591
Jon Boden The Essay - Under the Influence - 2011 Jon Boden is a folk musician who loves post-apocalyptic literature, works such as 'The Changes Trilogy' by Peter Dickinson, in which the people of England develop a dread of technology, Russell Hoban's 'Riddley Walker', set in the aftermath of such destruction that even the language has fragmented and Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road', in which a father and his son desperately push a cart with their few possessions, some tins of food and a pistol through a devastated land. He thought this was at odds with his work as a performer of traditional English song, music that sometimes celebrates a bucolic idyll. But, after becoming a father, he began to consider the implications of contemporary geo-politics. With the end of an oil dependent economy, would reality and the world depicted in the literature he enjoys coincide? Or might this lead to a world closer to that described in traditional song, and the kind of society that produced that music? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zt60v
Jubilee! - 2024 Drama on 3 As the dust settles on the American Civil War, a group of young black university students begin an extraordinary journey. ,,, the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a choir peopled entirely from once enslaved young men and women and founded to raise money for their beleaguered university. These young musicians would go on to captivate America and Europe, perform before presidents and royalty and become international celebrities. Uniquely, the choir introduced Spirituals to the world – secret songs once sung on blood-soaked plantations across the South – songs that began the march to freedom. By Garth Bardsley and Ray Shell www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00202zc mudcat thread mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=52566#4205022
The Long, Long Trail - 2014 Archive on 4 Roy Hudd explores Charles Chilton's forgotten 1961 radio masterpiece. Broadcast on the BBC Home Service, The Long, Long Trail told the story of the First World War in a unique way - through the songs sung by soldiers. In 1962, Chilton, already a renowned pioneering BBC radio producer, adapted the programme with director Joan Littlewood and the cast of Theatre Workshop into the landmark stage musical Oh What a Lovely War. Ian Hislop, Professor Hugh Chignell, Helen O'Neill, Pat Whitmore, Penny Chilton, and their children Mary and David Chilton. Producer: Amber Barnfather Sound design: David Chilton www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nrn9m
The actual Charles Chilton 1961 programme 'The Long, Long Trail' is in the BBC archives but hasn't been broadcast since 2014. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008hvwk
Margaret Fay Shaw's Hebridean Odyssey - 2021 Sunday Feature Margaret Fay Shaw gave up a privileged upbringing and classical music training in 1920s New York, to live in a remote, Gaelic-speaking community in the Outer Hebrides. Without any knowledge of Gaelic she used her classical training to notate and later record the first proper archive of traditional, unaccompanied song and folklore from the Western Isles. Later she married folklorist John Lorne Campbell. They settled in the Big House on the Isle of Canna and for decades they embarked on recording expeditions throughout the Western Isles. Fay Shaw died in 2004, aged 101 and her priceless archive of song sheets, recordings and photographs is stored on Canna along with her beloved Steinway piano, shipped out specially on a fishing boat from Glasgow. Fiona Mackenzie, one of Scotland's leading Gaelic singers, is curating and digitising this huge collection, owned by the National Trust for Scotland, and says it is her dream job. Margaret Fay Shaw's life and work is her inspiration and obsession, and she regularly gives talks, illustrated with archive recordings and her own live performance, to bring the story to wider audiences. Recorded on location, Fiona explores the songs and folklore which mean so much to her and which drew her muse from New York to the beautiful but storm-tossed Outer Hebrides. She says the songs of love, lament, work and exile have an enduring relevance. She describes the earliest recordings as “pinpricks of sound”, but says they echo a vanished way of life, “telling us who we are and where we came from”. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rmks some cine film made by MFS https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpkjsmrDBC1 Canna House, home to the archive. www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/canna/highlights/canna-house 'Solas' DVD by Fiona Mackenzie https://www.birnamcdshop.com/product/national-trust-for-scotland/ BBC Alba has a 3 minute clip with some photos www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lcbp Mudcat Gaelic reources https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=63882 video 'Hebredean Croftswomen' on National Trust for Scotland https://youtu.be/-Pyxt237Aeg
Music that survived the Nazis - 2022 The Documentary Featuring extraordinarily rare recordings, historian Shirli Gilbert presents this new history of life and music under Nazi tyranny. Part one the music of the Jewish Culture League, as well as the work of Lukraphon and Semer, two Jewish record labels active at this time. This includes a huge range of works recorded in Nazi Germany, from orchestral pieces to cabaret songs to religious singing of enormous beauty. Contributors include Alan Bern, Ben Fisher, Martin Goldsmith, Lily Hirsch, Rainer E. Lotz and Sasha Lurje. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c7y Part two This episode focuses on music-making in the camps and ghettos of Nazi Europe, including stories of music at Sachsenhausen, Vilna and Auschwitz. This includes a wealth of different styles, from Yiddish Tango and rousing camp anthems, to partisan songs and string quartets. Contributors include Lloica Czackis, Krzysztof Kulisiewicz, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Dr Astrid Ley and Bret Werb. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c7z
Oh What A Lovely War - 2011 Witness History In the 1960s, radio and stage shows helped provoke a change in attitudes towards World War I. Songs once sung by men in the trenches helped audiences to think of the war from the point of view of ordinary soldiers rather than officers. 10 minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lf05w
Landmarks: Oh What A Lovely War - 2013 Night Waves It's fifty years now since Oh What a Lovely War was first performed and this evening Night Waves pays tribute to Joan Littlewood's revolutionary anti-war musical. In a programme recorded before an audience at the Theatre Royal Stratford East where the show received its premiere, Samira Ahmed and her guests, the critic, Michael Billington, Erica Whyman from the RSC, the historian, David Kynaston and Murray Melvin from the original cast, discuss how Oh What A Lovely War changed Britain's theatrical landscape and redefined the way the think about the First World War. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03cnr02
Oliver Postgate - 2022 Free Thinking/Arts & Ideas The creator of much-loved children's TV classics including The Clangers, Bagpuss and Pogles' Wood is discussed by Matthew Sweet and his guests - how much of this political background can we find in the fantastical worlds that he created? There's also discussion of the music that plays such a major role in the programmes - the deep folk roots of the songs performed by Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner in Bagpuss and Vernon Elliot's sparse and poignant compositions for The Clangers, Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cyny skip to 14:45 for Sandra discussing the music
Shane MacGowan: The Old Main Drag - 2024 Archive on 4 [The journalist] Sean O'Hagan celebrates Shane MacGowan's lyrical genius as a voice of the Irish diaspora. Throughout, we interweave MacGowan’s songs and interviews with fresh contributions from cultural icons and those who knew him best, seeking to understand his impact. Through six selected songs, we come to appreciate MacGowan's artistry as that of an exile. Featuring contributions from Bono, Nick Cave, Victoria Mary Clarke, Sir Bob Geldof, Bobby Gillespie, Siobhan MacGowan, David Simon, Daragh Lynch and Peter Doherty. Produced by Richard Power www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025kqx
The Song Detectorists - 2025 The Essay - Radio 3 Matthew Bannister travels across England to find out about the music discovered in County Record Offices and reimagined for the 21st Century by the folk musician and academic Nancy Kerr. Matthew Bannister has been the host of Folk On Foot, a podcast which explores folk music and its connection with landscape in the UK, since 2018 and has often wondered about where “folk music” comes from. When he heard about Nancy Kerr’s involvement in a new project, Music, Heritage, Place he wanted to know more. Researchers from Royal Holloway and Newcastle University have been collaborating on an AHRC funded project sending out researchers, the “song detectorists”, to sift through the archives held in County Record Offices across England looking for music. They’ve returned with musical gems that Nancy Kerr has arranged and the discoveries are offering new insights into the way that music was shared and enjoyed in the past outside of the places historians and musicologists have traditionally expected to find it.
1. Norfolk Matthew Bannister is in Norwich to visit the Norfolk County Record Office where researchers have found some remarkable manuscripts including an 18th century music book from a village band in Mileham and a ballad written by a woman ousted from her home in the 17th century. Nancy Kerr has made new musical arrangements for her band The Melrose Quartet. As dusk falls, Matthew visits the remains of the magnificent Hales Hall deep in the Norfolk countryside. We hear from Stephen Rose of Royal Holloway and Bridget Yates a local researcher and music performed by the Melrose Quartet: Nancy Kerr, James Fagan, and Jess and Richard Arrowsmith. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br0n
2. Wakefield Matthew Bannister visits Nostell Priory, a grand Palladian house just outside Wakefield, which was the home of Louisa Winn from about 1819. Louisa was an accomplished musician and transcriber who collected some of her favourite tunes in a book - including piano arrangements of Rossini operas and an intriguing French Canadian song that hints at global connections. In the grand saloon, Matthew meets Simon McCormack the house’s curator who shows him Louisa Winn’s piano and allows him to pluck a harp string. Andrew Frampton, a pianist and researcher at Newcastle University takes Matthew to the West Yorkshire Archive Service in Wakefield. to see Louisa’s music book and some of her sketches of Mont Blanc. Andrew plays some of her music, recorded especially at SJE Arts, and we hear from Nancy Kerr about her fascination with the song Danse Canadienne which is performed by the Melrose Quartet: Nancy Kerr, James Fagan, and Jess and Richard Arrowsmith. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br4b
3. Cornwall Matthew Bannister is in a pub near Redruth with the singer and Cornish music researcher Hilary Coleman. She tells him about the tradition of carol singing, especially amongst tin miners, which survives in Cornwall today. She and Matthew visit Kresen Kernow, to look at “Eleanor Morgan’s book”,one of the sources used by the Cornish carol collector Davies Gilbert for his carol collection which was published in 1822. The identity of Eleanor Morgan remains a tantalising mystery. Caro Lesemann-Elliot from Royal Holloway talks about Davies Gilbert’s failure to credit the people whose music he collected. There’s a version of one of the carols: Hark Hark, What News the Angels Bring that emerged in Australia. Tin miners from Cornwall emigrated to Australia in the 19th century taking their carols with them. Nancy Kerr brings the original Cornish and migrated Australian versions back together. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br26
4. Hampshire Matthew Bannister visits the village of Nether Wallop in Hampshire which was the home of Richard Pyle, a wool trader who collected music into a tune book that is kept at the Hampshire Archives in Winchester. He meets Sarah Lewin the archivist there who is also a musician with a group that reenacts historical music. Stephen Rose from Royal Holloway University explains why the tune book is so important demonstrating that a small English country village was musically connected to places far beyond its county borders. Nancy Kerr has created a set for her band the Melrose Quartet that explores the music in the book including a new version of what Richard Pyle calls Evening Hymn which is an arrangement of Tallis' Canon. New words draw on Nether Wallop’s location in the Test Valley, where Richard Adam’s novel Watership Down was set. The new version becomes Silverweed Hymn to Richard Pyle's canon. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br8q
5. Newcastle Matthew Bannister is allowed a very rare glimpse of Henry Atkinson’s tune book from 1695. He’s with Steph Carter and Kirsten Gibson from Newcastle University. The book is kept at the Northumberland Archives at the Woodhorn Museum on the site of an old coal mine in Ashington. Henry Atkinson was a hostman, a member of a cartel of businessmen in Newcastle who controlled the buying and selling of coal. He was also a musician and collected his favourite fiddle tunes handwritten in a small book. Although considered very precious now Steph and Kirsten tell Matthew that books like Henry Atkinson’s were quite common. Music making was a sociable activity and many more people were musically active far away from the big cultural centres of London and the University towns than has been previously understood. Music from the book has been arranged by Nancy Kerr and is performed by The Melrose Quartet: Nancy Kerr, James Fagan, and Jess and Richard Arrowsmith. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bsl6
Sweet Harmony - 2021 Sideways Matthew Syed explores the importance of harmony and asks whether bringing in musical ideas could help bring us a little more harmony in our lives. We get a lesson in close harmony singing with folk trio Lady Maisery and consider how the principles of close listening could carry beyond a musical setting. And Matthew explores Plato's ideas about the soul in harmony with Professor Angie Hobbs, the Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. And with Ian Cross, Emeritus Professor of Music and Science at the University of Cambridge, Matthew unravels the ways we communicate musically in conversation to signal agreement and to bond, showing the vital importance of musical interaction in bonding. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012q30
Tin Pan Alleys - 2024 The Essay The original Tin Pan Alley was in Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, New York, where music publishers set up shop in the late 19th century, attracting songwriters and coming to dominate American popular music. Since then Tin Pan Alley has come to mean a quarter where there are music shops and where musicians gather. Cities all over the globe have Tin Pan Alleys of their own. Producer: Julian May
China - Xinjiekou Street in Beijing - Presenter: Stephen McDonell ,,,the erhu, a two string fiddle; the pipa, a pear shaped lute; the guzheng, a zither...and several others. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00253bl
Türkiye - Galip Dede Street in Istanbul - Presenter: Esra Yalçinalp ,,, baglama or saz, like a mandolin with a very long neck, and a kemençe or lyra, a bowed instrument, used in Ottoman classical and Turkish folk music. ,,, the darbuka, the goblet shaped drum used in Turkish classical music ,,, www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00254r0
Japan - Ochanomizu in Tokyo - Presenter: Phoebe Amoroso ,,, teahouses have given way to musical instrument shops. There are more than 70 in Ochanomizu's 'Guitar Street' . But you can buy harmonicas and accordions, too. Almost all the instruments sold are western, but made with Japanese materials, craftsmanship and attention to detail. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00253kw
Spain - Centro, Madrid - Presenter: Guy Hedgecoe ,,, Felipe Conde's shop and workshop in Centro, Madrid. Conde is the fourth generation of his family to make classical and flamenco guitars. Guy explores the state of the craft of making, the art of playing and the place of the classical guitar and flamenco music in Spain, and around the world, today. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00253hn
Indonesia - Tihingan in Bali - Presenter: Ade Mardiyati ,,, the master gong smiths and tuners whose craft dates from the 16th century. Two crucial skills are involved; that of the smith who forges the gongs, and that , the tuner who works them to ensure they give the right note. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00253pq
Turntable Tales - 2016 two episodes: 1. Berliner to Gramophone - the development and impact of the record-playing turntable. 2. Turntablists and Turntable Survival - the present vinyl revival and the development of Turntablism. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0742q7v/episodes/player
Victoria Wood - Loose Chippings - 2024 Archive on 4 During the making of her much-loved sitcom Dinnerladies, Victoria Wood was also recording her own personal audio diary, talking not just about the show she was writing and starring in but with thoughts and reminiscences across her whole career. Now her biographer, writer and journalist Jasper Rees, has been granted unique access not only to these tapes but also to Victoria’s own private archive, including much never-before-broadcast stand-up and songs, and treasures such as the previously-thought lost song that launched her career on ITVs New Faces and a private recording of her first ever concert as a student in Birmingham University that lay hidden for 50 years. Produced by David Tyler www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00261x8
Paul Thomas Anderson, [Wassail]Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden , Postcard from Doncaster - 2021 Front Row ,,,explaining the ancient tradition of wassailing,,, - and singing and playing[John Clare's "Christmas"]. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012q3j > skip to 29:50 (12min)