'Saturday Morning' - Radio3 - 25 July 2025

8min @ approx 2:30:20
Ahead of her Proms performance at the Glasshouse in Gateshead, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Angeline Morrison chats to Tom about her project "The Sorrow Songs - Folk Songs of Black British Experience".
She wrote the album to give musical voice to the stories of Black Britons from through the centuries who she discovered were missing from folk repertoire. Angeline tells Tom how her songs are already starting to make their way into the folk clubs of Cornwall.

7min @ approx 1:50:50
not folk but interesting
A century ago, the first electrical recordings were released by major record labels on both sides of the Atlantic, revolutionising the listening experience, allowing people to hear far richer and more nature sounding recordings of their favourite artists and orchestras.
We hear from producer and audio restorer Mark Obert-Thorn who has brought together many of the most significant recordings from that time for the Pristine label on a compilation called "1925: Landmarks from the Dawn of Electrical Recording" ["TCHAIKOVSKY, SAINT-SAËNS, BIZET, Chopin, Meyerbeer, Mascagni, Schubert & many more"]. Mark explains why this was the single most important development in recording since its invention by Thomas Edison in 1877 and how it changed the course of musical history.


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