BBC Radio This week 2024

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: Rain Dog
Date: 01 Oct 24 - 10:38 AM

On BBC Radio 4 extra at 09.30 Monday to Friday this week.

His Master's Voices

"Cerys Matthews and Tris Penna examine the legacy and stories behind some of the first gramophone records recorded in Britain from 1898-1902"

All five episodes are available to listen to now.

Episode 3 is British Ethnic

"His Master's Voices

Episode 3 of 5

Singer Cerys Matthews and music expert Tristram Penna continue their investigation into the early days of the recording industry in the UK.

They are in Cecil Sharp House, the home of English Folk Dance and Song Society, and are joined by Steve Roud, creator of the Roud Folk Song Index.

In the first few years of the Gramophone Company's history, they were making records of many popular songs rooted in the folk tradition including many old work songs, and producer Fred Gaisberg first travelled the British Isles in 1899 to find and record them.

He began in Scotland with pipers and singers, then going to Wales to record choirs including the Rhondda Royal Glee Society, and lastly to Dublin to record the very best of the local talents.

These discs captured local folk songs and melodies but, with an ear for what might sell, Gaisberg nearly always added a piano accompaniment and gentrified them for the Gramophone's targeted genteel audience.

The portable recording equipment they needed consisted of at least six crate loads and involved an interesting mixture of zinc plate, wax and toxic chemicals as well as an electrically driven recording machine.

We end with a recording of English Music Hall artist Gus Elen and an English hit song which points to the future of the popular recording industry in the UK - pop songs leading us all the way from Gus to The Beatles.

We also hear from academic Peter Adamson and Christopher Proudfoot, CLPGS President. The early recordings are courtesy of the EMI Archive Trust.

A Sue Clark Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2015."

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Also on BBC Radio 4 Extra today was

Things Called Jazz That Are Not Jazz

"There's a Jazz apple, Jazz aftershave, Jazz car, Jazz spreadsheet software, even a range of non-alcoholic beer called Jazz.

Why are so many things called Jazz that are not Jazz?

Russell Finch - documentary maker and failed jazz musician - has an unusual hobby. He collects examples of Things Called Jazz That Are Not Jazz.

There are more than you’d think.

The UK intellectual property office lists over 290 trademarks for things called jazz - everything from jazz garlic to jazz wigs to a jazz wettable powder biofungicide. Russell has been documenting some of his stranger discoveries on a blog. He insists it almost went viral once.

But it’s made him curious why are so many completely unrelated objects named after this one music genre? Even more mysterious, why are they named after a type of music that - it pains him to admit - not many people actually like?

Along the way he finds out the surprising origins of the word, the reason some musicians find it offensive, and why jazz is not a good name for food.

With:

* Comedian, Stewart Lee
* Singer, Gwyneth Herbert
* Musician, Nicholas Payton.

Producers: Peggy Sutton and Russell Finch

A Somethin’ Else production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 2016."

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: Rain Dog
Date: 22 Sep 24 - 07:40 AM

Available for the next 30 days


Poetry Extra - Adventures in Poetry - Waltzing Matilda

"Poet Daljit Nagra selects another highlight from the BBC's poetry archive this time with an Australian theme: Adventures in Poetry - Waltzing Matilda.

Was "the alternative Australian national anthem" written as a political statement or a way of impressing a girl?

Peggy Reynolds examines Banjo Paterson's lyric Waltzing Matilda, with help from some contemporary Australian voices.

Producer Christine Hall

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010."

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 14 Sep 24 - 01:02 PM

BBC Sounds
World Service Outlook Last on Friday 13 Sep 2024 03:06 28 days left to listen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5ny9
Shirley Collins; The break-up that cost me my voice; Shirley Collins is one of Britain's best loved folk singers –
but a painful divorce nearly stopped her singing forever. This programme was first broadcast in 2021.

Also World Service Weekend Release date: 27 May 2023 Duration: 3 minutes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fqrvlx
British folk music legend Shirley Collins has released an album after a 30-year break from singing. She lost her voice after a marriage break up,
but now, at the age of 87, she has found her voice again, with the release of another album.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: Rain Dog
Date: 02 Sep 24 - 02:57 AM

Due to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra this Thursday & Friday. Available now to listen to

Turntable Tales

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1. Berliner to Gramophone

Turntable Tales

Episode 1 of 2

In the first of two programmes telling the story of the record-playing turntable, Colleen Murphy spins through its early history and the dramatic take-up of this new technology in Edwardian society. It was an enthusiasm as spectacular as the computer's rise at the end of the same century and its impact on the music industry was profound.

Colleen talks to John Liffen of the Science Museum and Christopher Proudfoot of the British Phonograph and Gramophone Society about the earliest machines arriving from the United States by way of the German Emigre inventor Emile Berliner. She finds out why the HMV (His Master's Voice) image wasn't initially created for the Gramophone at all, and most important of all she gets to hear the sound qualities of the machines that developed in the first two decades of the 20th century.

That capacity to bridge the performer with the audience was the great miracle of the early years and allowed the easy spread of musical styles from Ragtime to Jazz to the first superstars of the Turntable world - the Opera stars. And yet, as ever, it was popular culture that dominated the market and drove sales.

She also touches on the new opportunities for the Blues and Ragtime musicians of African-American society to be heard beyond their geographical centres in the Southern States, and the preservation of performances which would go on to inspire British Rhythm and blues half a century later.

And Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury talks about the Gramophone as a blend of home furnishing and status symbol and why what appear to be exotic survivors of the period are actual part of a massive number of machines that were on sale from bike shops to music emporia.

Producer: Tom Alban

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.

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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 31 Aug 24 - 05:54 AM

Come to Moor Park in Preston for Radio 2 in the Park. Watch on iplayer. Listen on Sounds.
Zero tolerance to drugs. Please dispose of any banned substances in the amnesty bins.

There will be plenty of food options at the event, including child-friendly, vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and halal.
Enhanced ticket holders will benefit from allocated grandstand seating, a dedicated entrance into the event and an exclusive garden bar.
This area will also have artisan catering units selling premium food options and luxury restroom facilities.

Friday night 6 September Pre Party on the Radio 2 DJ stage. We strongly recommend you do not bring a folding chair to this event.
Saturday 7 September Sting, Sugababes, Snow Patrol, Craig David, Kim Wilde, Pixie Lott, Shaznay Lewis, Travis
Sunday 8 September Pet Shop Boys, Manic Street Preachers, Sister Sledge, Paul Heaton, Gabrielle, Shed Seven, Delta Goodrem, Haircut 100

Moor Park has now disappeared behind the daunting security fence. We shall be listening from our garden, whether we want to or not.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 26 Aug 24 - 11:20 PM

BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe

An acoustic escape; 24 days left to listen on BBC Sounds.

28 August 2024 21:00 Manchester-Irish group The McGoldrick Family play live in session.
Featuring renowned pipe and flute player Michael McGoldrick, the group also includes Mike's nieces Ciara McGoldrick (concertina and vocals),
Catherine McGoldrick (flute and whistle) and Mairead Hussey (bodhrán). Jimmy Patrick joins on guitar.
The McGoldrick Family's new album, One For The Road, is out now.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 23 Aug 24 - 04:15 PM

Lost Boy - In Search of Nick Drake - 2004
('The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe' - 2018
repeated Sat 10 Aug 2024)

Hollywood star Brad Pitt tells the story of cult singer-songwriter Nick Drake.
When this programme was first aired in May 2004, it led to worldwide media interest, and prompted Nick’s first UK chart placings. The single ‘Magic’ reached number 32, and the album featuring the new ‘lost’ track ‘Tow The Line’ charted at number 27.
During his lifetime, Nick’s three albums (Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter and Pink Moon) sold a few thousand copies; he played a handful of concerts and gave just one press interview. But in the years since his death, his status as a cult artist has grown and grown. He’s regularly name-checked by contemporary artists – REM, Radiohead, Paul Weller, Badly Drawn Boy – and in 2000, ‘Pink Moon’ was used in a car advertising campaign aired across America, making a new generation of fans aware of his music.
When Nick died in November 1974 of an overdose of anti-depressants, it was thought that his final recording sessions had yielded four songs intended for a new album. But when the original tapes were being re-mastered, Nick’s recording engineer John Wood discovered another song from those sessions which had been forgotten – Tow The Line.
Norah Jones recorded one of Nick’s songs ‘Day Is Done’, which will be featured in the programme.
Also featured are interviews with producer Joe Boyd, engineer John Wood, Nick’s sister Gabrielle, and his mother Molly Drake, who died in 1993. Also Ashley Hutchings, Linda Thompson and John Martyn.
57 minutes
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xn3lw

Only available for a few days on Sounds but this can be found on Mixcloud and YouTube and there are several related articles :
www.google.com/search?q=Lost+Boy+-+In+Search+of+Nick+Drake+-+2004

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: Rain Dog
Date: 16 Aug 24 - 06:50 AM

On BBC Radio 4 Extra this morning and available for 30 days

The Foghorn: A Celebration

"Peter Curran celebrates the humble foghorn's powerful role in music, literature and film.

The foghorn was invented in 1855 by Robert Foulis, a Scotsman living in Canada.

He could hear the low notes (but not the high notes) of his daughter's piano playing whist walking far from the family's fog-shrouded coastal cottage, thus inspiring the first steam powered fog horn.

But beyond the sea, it's 'whale-like' sound has inspired artists, writers and musicians to use the foghorn both as symbol and instrument.

Peter Curran hears from foghorn composer of 'Maritime Rites' Alvin Curran, Jason Gorski, aka The Fogmaster, who used to conduct guerrilla foghorn concerts in the Bay Area of California

Peter takes a tour of Portland Bill lighthouse in Dorset, with keeper Larry Walker, taking the opportunity to set off an almighty Victorian foghorn.

He also speaks to James Bond film music (and future 2012 Olympic theme) composer David Arnold, who tries to digitally recreate the foghorn's cry.

Plus Dr Harry Witchel analyses Peter's yearn for the sound as a child.

Producer: Sara Jane Hall.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011.'

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 14 Aug 24 - 06:37 PM

BBC Sounds BBC Folk Show 21st Century Folk 2024 2 hours Available for 13 days

Five people inspire five new folk songs. This year, the project focuses on coastal life and sea rescues around the UK. In this programme, Radio 2's Mark Radcliffe hears the in-depth stories behind each song.

The five fascinating characters get to meet songwriters, who listen to their stories before going away to write a dedicated song. Later, they're reunited for the song's debut performance.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 14 Aug 24 - 09:41 AM

BBC Radio 2 Folk Show

Wednesday 14 August 2024 20:00 Whales, lapwings and werewolves
This week, Mark plays a live highlight from Nick Drake - An Orchestral Celebration, which debuted at this year's BBC Proms. There's also another exclusive session from the Sidmouth Folk Festival, featuring a collaboration between top musicians Allison de Groot, Tatiana Hargreaves, Michael McGoldrick and John Doyle. Plus new releases from Kate Young and Laura Marling, and Kris Drever's contribution to Radio 2's 21st Century Folk.

Sunday 18 August 2024 20:00 Nick Drake – An Orchestral Celebration
Mark Radcliffe presents a BBC Proms celebration of singer and songwriter Nick Drake from London’s Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Sidmouth Folk Festival 23 days left to listen
Mark hangs out in the Bedford Hotel on the esplanade and welcomes fantastic musicians, including: Cornish shanty crew Fisherman's Friends, Canadian-American duo Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves, and outstanding trio McGoldrick McCusker & Doyle.

Mark also catches up with top Scottish band Skipinnish, who are celebrating 25 years in music with big concerts in Inverness, Edinburgh, London and Glasgow. Devon-based musicians Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes, and narrator John Palmer, share their admiration of Sabine Baring-Gould, who collected folk songs in the region. They perform a song from their show, 'Ghosts, Werewolves and Countryfolk'. Bryony Griffith and Alice Jones are active members of the traditional folk and dance scenes, and talk to Mark about Sidmouth Folk Festival's importance for folk dancers.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 14 Aug 24 - 09:21 AM

BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk

Ceilidh Trail at 25 3 days left to listen
Fiona Dalgetty, Chief Executive of Fèis Rois, joins Anna to celebrate 25 years of the Ceilidh Trail - the pioneering development programme for young Scottish musicians.

Cambridge and Belladrum Festivals 17 days left to listen
Anna Massie with the very best of folk and roots music from Scotland and beyond.

Jerry Douglas on Transatlantic Sessions 24 days left to listen
Anna has all the best new music plus some old favourites and is in conversation with Dobro virtuoso and co-music director of Transatlantic Sessions, Jerry Douglas.

Thursday 15 August 2024 21:00 Travelling Folk at the Edinburgh Festivals 2024
Travelling Folk is back at the Edinburgh Festivals for 2024 with another spectacular evening of live music from Dynamic Earth. Featuring live sets from Joseph Peach & Rhona Stevens, Lauren Collier, Hushman & the Ciaran Ryan Band.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 14 Aug 24 - 07:02 AM

Private Passions
Sun 1 Sep 2024 12:00 BBC Radio 3 Private Passions Raynor Winn

Raynor Winn is a writer whose first book, The Salt Path, followed the remarkable 630-mile journey she and her husband Moth made around the South West Coastal Path. Music played;
Peter Knight & John Spiers - Abbots Bromley Horn Dance Both in a tune. self-released.
Gluck - Melodie (Orfeo ed Euridice)
Schubert - Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D. 343
Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)
Hannah Martin & Gigspanner Big Band - Salt Song by Hannah Martin Saltlines. Self-released not on label.
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Julie Fowlis - The Song of the Seal (Òran an Ròin) Recording of a live performance on BBC R4 Saturday Live programme TX: 06/11/22021.
Broadcasts Sun 25 Jun 2023 12:00 BBC Sounds, Sun 1 Sep 2024 12:00 BBC Radio 3

Sun 9 Jul 2023 12:00 BBC Radio 3 BBC Sounds Private Passions Isabella Tree

Isabella Tree is an author and travel writer. Her award-winning book Wilding: the Return of Nature to a British Farm, describes how she and her conservationist husband Charlie decided after many generations of intensive dairy and arable farming to undertake a pioneering experiment. They would rewild their 3,500 acre estate, Knepp in West Sussex – returning it to nature. Her music choices include works by Schubert, Handel, Bach but also compositions made in response to the Knepp estate;
Sam Lee - Turtle Dove Old Wow. Cooking Vinyl. 7.
Duo Ji, Lobsanf Tsering, Lhamo Dhondrub, Sonam Topgyal & Pema Drolka - Chanting Nuns Authentic Tibet 2. Sonoton. 18.
Members of the Bernardi Music Group - White Storks String Octet (final part)
Bernardi Music Group performing at Shipley Arts Festival during lockdown 2020 vi. 1.
Richard Durrant - Big Fat Earthworm Rewilding. The Burning Deck. 6.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: Rain Dog
Date: 12 Aug 24 - 06:08 AM

Available on BBC Sounds for the next 29 days

Tongue and Talk - The Dialect Poets: Northumberland

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Tongue and Talk - The Dialect Poets: Northumberland with children's author Kirsty Mckay.

When Kirsty returned home recently she was struck by how dialect and culture was being eroded by the encroachment of urbanisation and the influx of people moving into the area.

Here Kirsty rediscovers the dialect poetry by listening to old tapes recorded by her late father. She says: 'I found recording after recording of dialect poetry, often accompanied by local musicians, some recorded in late night lock-ins at local pubs or by the fire in the tiny cottage I'd known as a child.'

Kirsty sets out on an exploration of identity and the future of the Northumbrian language in the poetry of the Cheviot hills.

Among the people she meets along the way are poet, musician and composer James Tait, retired shepherd Allan Wood and poet and historian Katrina Porteous. Kirsty also hears poetry from the children of Harbottle School and the entrants of The Morpeth Gathering.

Meanwhile the case is made for Northumbrian as a language, not a dialect. It represents the remainder of Old English and is the grandmother of the Scottish language.

Produced by Iain Mackness, Catherine Harvey and Ashley Byrne

A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2018.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: Rain Dog
Date: 11 Aug 24 - 02:40 AM

Monday 12.8.24 at 10.00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Charles Parker Prize 2024

"Sara Parker introduces a new generation of student feature makers, all finalists and winners of the Charles Parker Prize 2024 – set up in memory of her father.

The annual Charles Parker Prize celebrates a new generation of audio producers and storytellers - open to anyone studying radio and audio at Higher or Further Education and other media courses across the country.

Broadcast through the 1950s and 60s, along with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, Charles Parker's series known as the 'Radio Ballads' left a lasting legacy on the landscape of radio storytelling; by interweaving original musical composition with remote interview recordings, and with a focus on highlighting working class voices - a practice until then unheard on BBC radio.

Charles’ daughter Sara Parker, herself an award-winning radio producer, hears from this year's finalists and plays extracts from their features as our ten new storytellers share their experience in creating their celebrated audio features.

There are extracts from the prize-winning features of; Grace Reeve, Libby Liburd, Evan Green, Naomi Bloomstein and Amy Bartlett, as well as the five other nominees; Anna de Wolfe Evans, James Bonney, Irene Dani, Chantal Romain and Darya Kalsi.

You can hear the five winners’ work in full in the series ‘New Storytellers’ on BBC Radio 4 this week and on BBC Sounds along with finalist Anna de Wolfe’s ‘A Recipe for Recovery’.

Producer: Talia Augustidis (Gold Winner of the Charles Parker Prize 2024)

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Soundscape productions."

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5 winners work will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 this coming Monday to Friday at 11.45

Monday 12.8.24 - Fight Fair
Tuesday 13.8.24 - Friends of the Wall
Wednesday 14.8.24 - The National Language of Nowhere
Thursday 15.8.24 - Full Circle
Friday 16.8.24 - The Outcast Dead and Alive

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Aug 24 - 11:43 AM

BBC iplayer Alba TV, I know! Skipinnish Aig A' Chaisteal Broadcast 19 July 2024 Available for 10 days
A special programme to celebrate 25 years of Skipinnish, recorded at Edinburgh Castle in front of thousands of fans. The concert includes the music that made the band famous, and features interviews with members Angus MacPhail and Andrew Stevenson. Narrated by Megan NicGill-Fhaolain.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Aug 24 - 12:59 AM

Jeremy Vine Show Live from Sidmouth Folk Festival as part of 21st Century Folk BBC Sounds 28 days left to listen
Legends of folk write and perform songs inspired by five people with a powerful connection to the sea. We talk to Al Kassim, who was rescued by the RNLI off the coast of Portsmouth and now volunteers for the organisation at their busiest lifeboat station. Seth Lakeman and the Fisherman’s Friends write and perform a shanty inspired by Al’s work. Jeremy examines the power of folk music, tries some morris dancing, talks to campaigners who are worried about sewage in the sea, and discusses second homes and the importance of using cash at the coast.

Wednesday 07 August 2024 21:00 BBC Radio 2 Folk Show at Sidmouth Folk Festival
The Folk Show is visiting to coincide with the festival's 70th anniversary and Radio 2's 21st Century Folk, in which five people have folk songs written about their lives. This year, all those lives are linked to the sea. Mark hangs out in the Bedford Hotel on the esplanade and welcomes fantastic musicians, including: Cornish shanty crew Fisherman's Friends, Canadian-American duo Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves, and outstanding trio McGoldrick McCusker & Doyle.

Mark also catches up with top Scottish band Skipinnish, who are celebrating 25 years in music with big concerts in Inverness, Edinburgh, London and Glasgow. Devon-based musicians Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes, and narrator John Palmer, share their admiration of Sabine Baring-Gould, who collected folk songs in the region. They perform a song from their show, 'Ghosts, Werewolves and Countryfolk'. Bryony Griffith and Alice Jones are active members of the traditional folk and dance scenes, and talk to Mark about Sidmouth Folk Festival's importance for folk dancers,

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 02 Aug 24 - 02:01 PM

Music Planet BBC Radio 3 18:00 Saturday

Road Trip to New Orleans 3 days left to listen
Kathryn Tickell presents a round-up of the latest sounds from around the globe, including Road Trip from New Orleans.

Glastonbury highlights 10 days left to listen
Kathryn Tickell presents highlights from this year's Glastonbury Festival including music from Femi Kuti, The Mary Wallopers, Arooj Aftab and Ska legends the Skatalites, plus we take a look at what the summer festivals hold in store.

Sahra Halgan in session 17 days left to listen
Lopa Kothari presents a session with Somali singer Sahra Halgan and the best new roots-based music from across the world.

Yiddish Tango Road Trip 24 days left to listen
Kathryn Tickell presents the best roots-based music from across the world - this week we delve into the world of Yiddish tango with Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk, we hear the music of artists featuring at the WOMAD festival, and we remember the late Malian kora master, Toumani Diabaté.

3 August WOMAD 2024: Seckou Keita, Asmaa Hamzaoui, Faiz Ali Faiz
Lopa Kothari with recordings from last weekend's WOMAD Festival including sets by Seckou Keita and his Senegalese Homeland band, Morocco's Asmaa Hamzaoui with her all-female gnawa group Bnat Timbouktou, and from Pakistan, the powerful qawwali singing of Faiz Ali Faiz and his group. Plus interviews with highlife legend Pat Thomas, Catalan folk duo Tarta Relena and "digital voodoo" five-piece Nana Benz du Togo.

10 August Betto Arcos In the Studio
Lopa Kothari is joined by our regular guide to music across the world, music journalist and broadcaster Betto Arcos, who found himself in London for a change. Together they share the music that has inspired, influenced and shaped them.

17 August Trei parale
Kathryn Tickell presents the best roots-based music from across the world and chats with Romanian band Trei parale about their album România. 100 de minute

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Aug 24 - 04:22 AM

Prom 8: Nick Drake – An Orchestral Celebration 19:30 Wednesday 24 July 2024 Royal Albert Hall
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 2

Sunday 18 August 6pm BBC Radio 2 Nick Drake – An Orchestral Celebration The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe
From the BBC Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra, guest artists and conductor Jules Buckley honour Nick Drake in arrangements including Northern Sky, River Man, and Time has Told Me.

Presented by Elizabeth Alker/Olive Chaney (vocals/piano/guitar)/Marika Hackman (vocals/guitar)/BC Camplights (vocals/guitar)/Scott Matthew (vocals/guitar)/The Unthanks

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Aug 24 - 12:27 AM

21st Century Folk 29 Jul 2024 Available for 27 days
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0jcg0p8/21st-century-folk BBC 21st Century Folk

Real life stories of Radio 2 listeners in the North East of England, using original folk music to create a lasting legacy of their experiences. Five stories given to songwriters,
who write original songs based on the listeners' experiences. The songs are performed by a range of artists, including musicians with links to the region.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Aug 24 - 12:18 AM

BBC Radio 2 21:00 7 August Folk Show from Sidmouth Folk Festival
Mark Radcliffe will be staying in Sidmouth over the festival’s first weekend and will feature a selection of the performers on his programme on Wednesday, August 7.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Aug 24 - 12:02 AM

BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show; Jeremy showcases 21st Century Folk, a brilliant Radio 2 initiative where legends of folk
write and perform songs inspired by five people who have a powerful connection to the sea.

Monday 29 Jul 2024 Available for 27 days See Tracklist
Today, we talk to Anna Heslop, who became the first woman in charge of a lifeboat at RNLI Cullercoats in the station's 170-year history.
Lady Nade, the singer-songwriter from Bristol, collaborates with Boo Hewerdine to write a song and perform it directly to Anna.

Tuesday 30 Jul 2024 Available for 28 days After approx 1 hour 20 minutes; see Tracklist
Today, we hear from the expedition kayaker Jeff Allen, who lives much of his life at sea. A former soldier, he dedicated himself to boat-building and kayaking as a way to find peace.
Singer-songwriter Cara Dillon and her musical partner Sam Lakeman write and perform a song for him.

Wednesday 31 Jul 2024 Available for 29 days See Tracklist
Today, we talk to Vicky Murphy, who was 8 months pregnant when she and her husband Marc were rescued from a flooded cave in Cornwall by two lifeguards.
We are joined by Martyn Joseph, who performs a song that he has written which is based on their story.

Thursday 1 August 12 noon Radio 2 21st Century Folk
Today, we talk to the marine conservationist Emma Neave-Webb, who lives on Orkney where she rescues beached whales.
She shares her experiences with singer Kris Drever who has written a song for her.

Friday 2 August 12 noon Radio 2 Live from Sidmouth Folk Festival
We talk to Al Kassim, who was rescued by the RNLI off the coast of Portsmouth and now volunteers for the organisation at their busiest lifeboat station.
Seth Lakeman and the Fisherman’s Friends write and perform a shanty inspired by Al’s work.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 Jul 24 - 04:30 AM

BBC Radio Folk programmes July 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk
BBC radio July 2024

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 18 Jul 24 - 01:56 PM

BBC Radio 2 Folk Show 21:00 Wednesday/BBC Sounds

22 days left to listen Acoustic sounds, with Georgia Ruth in session
Welsh singer, songwriter and harpist Georgia Ruth joins Mark live in Salford to perform songs from her new album, Cool Head. Plus the usual blend of exciting new releases and classic tracks.

29 days to listen Rooting around The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe
This week includes news about the return of Radio 2's 21st Century Folk, in which five people inspire five new songs. We hear highlights from last year's project. New releases come from The Decemberists, Good Habits and Altan. Mark also checks out new books with musical connections to Johnny Flynn and Christine Collister, and plays a Scottish classic by Silly Wizard.

04 August 2024 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe 21st Century Folk

In 21st Century Folk, five people inspire five new folk songs. This year, the project focuses on coastal life and sea rescues around the UK. The five fascinating characters get to meet songwriters, who listen to their stories before going away to write a dedicated song. Later, they're reunited for the song's debut performance. In this programme, Radio 2's Mark Radcliffe hears the in-depth stories behind each song. This year's 21st Century Folk musicians are: Lady Nade with Boo Hewerdine, Cara Dillon with Sam Lakeman, Martyn Joseph, Kris Drever, and Seth Lakeman with Fisherman's Friends. Their subjects are Anna, Jeff, Vicky, Emma and Al. Lifeboat helm Anna Heslop became Cullercoats’ first female helm in the RNLI station’s 170-year history, and also led their first all-female crew. She inspires a song by Bristol singer Lady Nade and fellow songwriter Boo Hewerdine.

Kayaker, yachtsman and former soldier Jeff Allen leads expeditions around the world. He turned to the sea to help him cope with life after the army. The veteran's story inspires a song by Northern Irish singer Cara Dillon and her musical partner Sam Lakeman. Vicky Murphy was eight months pregnant when she and husband Marc were rescued from a flooding cave in Cornwall. Hammered by waves that threatened to drag them out to sea, the couple believed they would not survive. Thanks to a mystery surfer and two lifeguards, they did. Their story inspires a song by Cardiff troubadour Martyn Joseph, who returns to 21st Century Folk for a second time.

Marine conservationist Emma Neave-Webb lives on the island of Sanday in Orkney, where she works to rescue beached whales affected by changing seas. Her profound change of lifestyle, and experience of rescuing killer whales and pilot whales, inspire a song by Scottish songwriter Kris Drever, whose own family comes from Sanday. Central London lifeboat crew member Al Kassim volunteers at the UK’s busiest RNLI station: Tower. He signed up after being saved by a lifeboat off Portsmouth. Al's song pays tribute to all brave volunteers and is performed by Dartmoor folk star Seth Lakeman and Cornish shanty sensations Fisherman's Friends. Videos of the five performances from 21st Century Folk can be found on the BBC iPlayer and the BBC Music YouTube channel.

BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine show 12-2pm Monday 29th July to Friday 2nd August 2024. Interviews with all the participants can be heard on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: DaveRo
Date: 07 Jul 24 - 04:23 PM

GUEST,Anne Lister sans cookie wrote: Richard Thompson on R3, Private Passions, today (July 7th 2024).

He chose some great music:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020r8l

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,Anne Lister sans cookie
Date: 07 Jul 24 - 07:48 AM

Richard Thompson on R3, Private Passions, today (July 7th 2024).

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 03 Jul 24 - 11:34 PM

Saturday 6 July 20:00 BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4; Dirty Old Town at 75
Ewan McColl used the song to celebrate his grimy, industrial, smoky hometown. Presenter Mike Sweeney will be the guide from the old Salford to the new..

BBC Folk Show BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 2

15 days left to listen; Mark Radcliffe welcomes Paul Armfield to the studio. Songwriter Paul is based on the Isle of Wight, where he runs a bookshop. His intimate, honest and disarming songs have won fans including Mark, Guy Garvey, Lauren Laverne, Chris Difford, Caitlin Moran and more.

22 days left to listen An acoustic treasure trove.

29 days left to listen; Mark plays artists appearing at some of the UK's remaining festivals.

10 July 2024 Welsh singer, songwriter and harpist Georgia Ruth joins Mark live in Salford to perform songs from her new album, Cool Head.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 29 Jun 24 - 12:32 PM

Saturday 29 June 6:15pm BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends
David Baddiel, Richard Thompson, Abigail Cruttenden, Noorruddean Choudry, Amy Gledhill, Stuart Maconie
Plus music from one of the UK's finest singer songwriters - Fairport Convention co-founder Richard Thompson - celebrating his new album Ship to Shore.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 29 Jun 24 - 04:18 AM

Saturday 6 July 20:00 BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4; Dirty Old Town at 75

In 2024 Dirty Old Town will be 75 years old. Its lyrics were written about the Salford streets they were written on and its writer Ewan McColl used the song to celebrate his grimy, industrial, smoky hometown, starting life as a melody to bridge a tricky junction in his play about Salford - 'Landscape with Chimneys’.

Presenter Mike Sweeney will be the guide from the old Salford to the new, how the city has been transformed and how despite the huge changes in the cities character Dirty Old Town is being reclaimed by the city.

BBC Sounds Radio Manchester Listen Now "There's anger and love in Dirty Old Town" Release date:12 June 2024 Duration: 3 minutes
BBC Radio Manchester's Mike Sweeney has rewritten Dirty Old Town, originally written by Ewan MacColl about the Salford Docks.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: Rain Dog
Date: 29 Jun 24 - 02:30 AM

Repeated on BBC Radio 4 yesterday

The Seeds of Love

On 22nd August 1903, a Somerset gardener called John England was singing as he mowed the lawn.

Cecil Sharp heard him and took down the tune and words of 'The Seeds of Love'.

This event was a defining moment for English music. Malcolm Taylor explores the significance of this moment and of the song itself.

Producer: Julian May

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2003.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: Rain Dog
Date: 13 Jun 24 - 02:30 AM

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra on Tuesday 11.6.24 (originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016)

Suck it and See

"Grammy Award-Winning songwriter Amy Wadge fell in love with the harmonica after winning one in a fancy dress competition (she was dressed in a bin liner!).

Here she investigates the history and potential of the diatonic instrument, a European the toy which in the hands of expert players became the the iconic sound of the Mississippi Delta and the Chicago Blues.

According to music historian Christoph Wagner, the very first example of the instrument goes back to Vienna. But millions would soon find their way to the USA, taken there by German emigres fleeing poverty. The poor person's introduction to music, the harmonica would soon find its way to around the globe, from Britain to Australia and even China.

But it was in America that it scored its biggest success. Joe Filisko reveals it was there that harmonica technique underwent a transformation. Instead of exhaling air, blues players would draw air in, and bend notes to achieve the characteristic sounds of the blues.

Amy tries her hand at bending, under the expert tutelage of Steve Lockwood - one of very few people to have studied the harmonica to degree level, and she speaks to one of Britain's best-known players, Paul Jones.

Canadian beat-boxer Benjamin Darvill - "Son of Dave" - has explored new possibilities with the instrument, and with an original sound that's been heard in edgy TV dramas and commercials.

Proving that for all its limitations - 10 holes and 3 octaves - there's life yet the harmonica.

Produced by Geoff Ballinger."

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 05 Jun 24 - 04:22 AM

Radio Scotland Travelling Folk BBC Sounds

Music For Your Mind 3 days left to listen
Travelling Folk marks Mental Health Awareness Month, including a specially curated playlist from music teacher & former Elephant Sessions guitarist Mark Bruce.

International Women's Day: HEISK Takeover 10 days left to listen
Anna celebrates women in folk music & HEISK takeover the second hour with a playlist curated especially for International Women's Day.

Orkney Folk Festival with The East Pointers in Session 17 days left to listen
Anna is live from Kirkwall at the start of the Orkney Folk Festival with live music from Norwegian fiddler Alexander Aga Røynstrand and a session with The East Pointers.

Rachel Newton & RCS Students in Session 24 days left to listen
Rachel Newton shares her new album Sealladh & students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Traditional Music course are in session.

BBC Radio Scotland 20:00 Thursday 6 June Live From Cardiff
Anna explores the rich musical heritage of Wales. Including live music from the award winning singer songwriter Martyn Joseph and founding members of Calan -
two of the finest instrumentalists on the Welsh folk scene - Angharad Jenkins & Patrick Rimes live in session.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 05 Jun 24 - 04:02 AM

Orkney Folk Festival 2024 Live Lounge BBC Sounds

Released On: 23 May 2024 Available for 17 days
BBC Radio Orkney hosts Hannah Rarity, Ryan Young and Genticorum performing for the Orkney Folk Festival Live Lounge audience.

Released On: 24 May 2024 Available for 18 days
BBC Radio Orkney hosts Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman, Charm of Finches and Drever, McGoldrick & McCusker performing for the Orkney Folk Festival Live Lounge audience.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Jun 24 - 06:07 AM

Music Planet, BBC Sounds

2 days left to listen; Lopa Kothari is joined in the studio by Grammy Award-winning Spanish singer-songwriter Buika, performing her unique blend of flamenco, soul and rumba.
We also pay tribute to Lebanese composer Assi Rahbani and have new music from Tanzania, Finland, Ghana and Denmark.

9 days left to listen; Kathryn Tickell presents a recording of Estonian folk group Duo Ruut live in concert in Tallinn plus the latest new releases.

16 days left to listen; Kathryn Tickell presents the best roots-based music from across the world, plus a Road Trip to Lima, Peru, with Betto Arcos.

23 days left to listen; Lopa Kothari chats to the Staples Jr. Singers about their new album 'Searching', and we are joined by Max Reinhardt to pay tribute to Algerian pianist Maurice El Médioni.

Music Planet, BBC Radio 3 21:30 Saturday

01 June 2024; Lopa Kothari with new releases from Aynur, L’Etrangleuse and Thandiswa plus a Road Trip to India's coastal region of Goa,
with Sigmund de Souza as our guide exploring the Portuguese-influenced mando tradition.

08 June 2024; Kathryn Tickell chats to Paul Duhaney, artistic director of Africa Oyé, the UK's largest free festival of African music that takes place in Liverpool's Sefton Park later this month.

15 June 2024 Kathryn Tickell is joined by Karen Matheson from Scottish folk legends Capercaillie, who celebrate their 40th anniversary this year.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 31 May 24 - 07:09 AM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk BBC Radio May 2024

May 2024 A list of BBC Radio folk programmes across the UK.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 29 May 24 - 11:40 PM

BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4 Saturday 6 July Dirty Old Town

Dirty Old Town will be given a new lease of life by American singer Peggy Seeger, who married MacColl in 1977, when she reveals a new verse in a one-off performance at Salford’s We Invented the Weekend festival in June. Peggy Seeger, an accomplished performer and songwriter in her own right, said she was delighted to be revisiting a song "Ewan and I sang together for decades" at the Salford festival.

A new orchestral version of the song, created by Seeger with her son Neill MacColl and the BBC Philharmonic documentary, will feature in a documentary which has been made by the festival in collaboration with BBC Archive on 4. The film, which is presented by BBC Radio Manchester presenter and fellow Salford musician Mike Sweeney, will be broadcast on 6 July.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 May 24 - 11:22 PM

BBC Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe, Shaun Keaveny sits in BBC Radio 2 21:00 Wednesday

29 May 2024 singer-songwriter Blair Dunlop talks about his new album, Out Of The Rain.

05 June 2024 Singer-songwriter Josienne Clarke is live in the studio, performing songs from her album 'Parenthesis, I'.

12 June 2024 Mark Radcliffe returns to the Folk Show and to Salford, the original 'Dirty Old Town' that inspired Ewan MacColl's famous song. We hear a special collaboration between Peggy Seeger and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as they perform Dirty Old Town together. American folk legend Peggy was famously the musical and romantic partner of MacColl from the 1950s to his death in the late 80s.

Dirty Old Town will be a focus of the upcoming We Invented The Weekend Festival at Salford Quays on 15 and 16 June. The song was written 75 years ago and depicts human life and love in industrial Salford. It was famously recorded by The Pogues, The Dubliners and many more. Also this week, Mark highlights the 110th anniversary of James Joyce's classic book Dubliners, which famously gave the Irish band their name and inspired many more folk musicians since then.

19 June 2024 Mark Radcliffe welcomes Paul Armfield to the studio. Songwriter Paul is based on the Isle of Wight, where he runs a bookshop. His intimate, honest and disarming songs have won fans including Mark, Guy Garvey, Lauren Laverne, Chris Difford, Caitlin Moran and more. Paul is also a bassist (appearing on records by Michael Kiwanuka), lino-cut artist and player of the musical saw.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 May 24 - 03:57 PM

BBC Sounds The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe/Shaun Keavenny Sits In

Richard Thompson Available for 3 days
Legendary folk-rock guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson talks about his new album, Ship to Shore.

Paul Simon; Available for 9 days
Speaking in New York, he recalls early experiences on the British folk circuit during the 1960s, and talks about his new album, Seven Psalms, a seamless song cycle that evolves over one 33-minute track.

May Day Available for 10 days
It's May Day, so this week's tracks celebrate the approach of summer.

Aoife O'Donovan Available for 17 days
This week, Shaun chats to Grammy-winning American songwriter, Aoife O'Donovan. Besides her own work, Aoife is known for being a member of I'm With Her and Crooked Still. Her new solo album, All My Friends, is inspired by America's suffragettes and their campaign to give women the vote in 1920. Aoife chats to Shaun ahead of her UK shows in June, which include a London show where she'll be backed by an orchestra and choir.

The Bookshop Band Available for 24 days
Shaun is joined by Beth Porter and Ben Please, who talk about their duo: The Bookshop Band. The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books. Their latest album, Emerge, Return, has been produced by The Who's Pete Townsend. Emerge, Return features songs inspired by books by authors including Philip Pullman, Margaret Atwood, Shaun Bythell, Yann Martel, Carol Birch, Barney Norris, Robert Macfarlane, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and Aldous Huxley.

BBC Radio 2 21:00 22 May 2024 Sean Keavenny Sits In

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 May 24 - 02:52 PM

Front Row, BBC Radio 4 7.15 21 May 2024
Colm Tóibín, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair on John Deakin
Front Row

Miranda Rutter and Rob Harbron's new folk album, Bird Tunes, is inspired by birdsong they hear in woods in the Cotswolds. They perform a track on fiddle and concertina and talk about how manipulating the sounds made by blackbirds, wrens and cuckoos helped to inspire musical phrases in different keys.

They play the Golden Blackbird jig rather well!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 03 May 24 - 03:32 PM

Thanks Dick; as posted on Facebook
The Ballad Tree: Traditional Folk Ballads and Songs
- don't think it's been mentioned before here
available 'for over twelve months'

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Same Time, Same Place, Next Year - 2006
Archive on 4
Malcolm Taylor explores the work of folk archivist Doc Rowe.
Doc has been returning to the same places at the same times for over 40 years to record, photograph and film annual events.
These include the hobby horses (Obby ‘Oss) dancing through Padstow in Cornwall on May Day, the Burry Man of South Queensferry in Scotland on the second Friday in August, and the building of the Penny Hedge in Whitby on Ascension Eve.
Malcolm is the English Folk Dance and Song Society's librarian. He follows Doc as he adds to his vast archive of the sounds and images of British vernacular culture.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076zt4

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 20 Apr 24 - 03:37 PM

The only bit of singing is in the last half minute but it's good to hear Stanley Robertson being interviewed in 1988.

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Walking the Old Lumphanan Road with the Late Stanley Robertson - 2024
Scotland Outdoors
Stanley Robertson was from the Travelling People and in the 1980's he published a book called 'Exodus to Alford' featuring stories associated with a particular road his people used to take each Summer when he was a boy. Former BBC Producer Doreen Wood went there with Stanley in 1988 and recorded an interview with him describing his memories of this special place.

In this podcast, Mark Stephen and Helen Needham go in search of the Old Lumphanan Road with the archive of Stanley in their ears, offering a fascinating insight into the culture and beliefs of him and his people and a way of life that no longer exists in this part of the world.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hrczkz

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 11 Apr 24 - 06:18 PM

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Folk musician Martin Simpson; movie icon Anna May Wong; and classical music leaders criticise Arts Council England -
BBC Radio4 - Front Row - April 2024
The English folk singer and guitar virtuoso Martin Simpson performs material from his new album - his 24th - Skydancers.
The title track, commissioned by naturalist Chris Packham, highlights the plight of the Hen harrier. Simpson talks about his love of birds, of traditional song, of writing his own, the influence on him of American music, and a lifetime playing the guitar and banjo.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y296
11 minutes > skip to 14:20

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 08 Apr 24 - 08:01 PM

Is this folk yet? idk
I thought it was a very interesting and well put together programme anyway.

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The Golden Age of the MGM Musical - 2024
Sunday Feature
,,,Freed's music Unit employed the top musicians of the time - Conrad Salinger, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Kurt Weill - many of whom had fled war-torn Europe and rising anti-Semitism.
From the early days of sound, MGM became synonymous with the spectacular, technicolour musical - the first studio to integrate music, plot and dance in film in an intelligent way. Over the years, with huge successes like Meet Me In St Louis, The Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain, they became the 'Faberge Egg' of movie production. And these hits often coincided with moments of huge social and political turbulence, offering audiences fantasy and escape from the Great Depression, war and prejudice.
With archive and original interviews including Alicia Mayer - grand-niece of Louis B, film music historian Jon Burlingame and conductor John Wilson, Neil Brand explores this extraordinary period in film history.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xw7f

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 06 Apr 24 - 06:16 AM

BBC Radio 2 Folk Show Wednesday 21:00

10 April 2024 Shaun Keaveny sits in, with with live guest Martin Simpson.

17 April 2024 Shaun Keaveny explores folk music, with guest Olivia Chaney.

* Saturday 20 April 2024 01:00; Repeat from Wednesday 20 September 2023; Paul Simon talks about his life and his latest work: Seven Psalms.

Now aged 81, Paul Simon is an outstanding artist of his generation, writing strings of extraordinarily successful and well-loved songs across nearly 70 years of music-making. Speaking in New York, he recalls early experiences on the British folk circuit during the 1960s, and talks about his new album, Seven Psalms, a seamless song cycle that evolves over one 33-minute track.

In an extended interview with Mark Radcliffe, Paul recounts how the title came to him in a dream, and discusses the recurring themes of the piece. He talks about mortality, creativity and spirituality, and about collaborating with his wife Edie Brickell and with the vocal ensemble VOCES8.

There's also a chance to hear Paul performing in his first BBC radio session in 1965, as he remembers the London friends who gave him that early opportunity. Paul also talks about his present ability to perform, and his ambitions for the near future. Artist Charlie Mackesy (The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse) is running a free exhibition of sketches, inspired by Paul Simon's Seven Psalms, in London during September 2023.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 06 Apr 24 - 05:40 AM

The BBC is re-arranging its radio schedules. Music Planet moves to 21.30 on Saturday.

06 April Ganavya in session; Lopa Kothari presents the best roots-based music from across the world, featuring a specially recorded studio session with the vocalist and composer Ganavya.

13 April 2024Genticorum in concert; Kathryn Tickell with highlights from Quebecois band Genticorum's recent performance at Celtic Connections in Glasgow, plus a round-up of the latest new releases.

20 April Anoushka Shankar; Kathryn Tickell is joined by acclaimed sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar, whose new album Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn was released earlier this month. Together they share the music that has inspired, influenced and shaped them.

27 April Fran & Flora's Precious Collection; Lopa Kothari chats to experimental folk duo Fran & Flora about their new album Precious Collection and the traditional Yiddish and Klezmer tunes that inspired them, and we have new music from Spain, Scotland, Norway, Japan and Burkina Faso.

Four earlier episodes available on BBC Sounds;
WOMAD Revisited: Femi Kuti and the Positive Force; Lopa Kothari with previously unbroadcast material from a set by Femi Kuti and his band The Positive Force, performing live at WOMAD last year. 2 days left to listen.
Volosi in session; Lopa Kothari with latest new releases and a specially recorded studio session by Polish string band Volosi. 9 days left to listen.
Meridian Brothers in concert; Lopa Kothari presents a recording of Colombia's Meridian Brothers, live at Kings Place in London, as part of the Songlines Encounters festival. 16 days left to listen.
Zakir Hussain; Tabla player Zakir Hussain is in conversation with Lopa Kothari, sharing his favourite music, as well as discussing his career and musical influences. 23 days left to listen.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,young'un
Date: 04 Apr 24 - 02:48 PM

The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff BBC Radio 3 Sunday 7th 8pm - Live Recording of the Young'uns theatre show about working class anti fascist Teessider Johnny Longstaff. Recorded in Stockton in 2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016rh2

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 02 Apr 24 - 04:54 PM

Saturday 9pm BBC Radio 4 Legend - The Joni Mitchell Story - repeat

6 April 1/6 Urge for Going

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 02 Apr 24 - 04:49 PM

Saturday 13.03 BBC Radio 3 Music Matters The Land Without Music?

06 April 2024 13.03 Music Fit for a King and a Nation
Richard Morrison explores the sumptuous showcase of British music at King Charles III's coronation in May last year, in a post-pandemic climate faced with financial challenges.

13 April 2024 13.03 Grass Roots and Folk Revivals
Richard Morrison delves into the unique character of British music, from the folk-infused music of Vaughan Williams to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha and music today. He explores the role of the folk-music revival of composers like Vaughan Williams, Holst and Delius in strengthening Britain's musical culture after an apparent dearth of compositional activity after Purcell, and explores our national musical identity today, both classical and folk.

Richard talks to some of the main players on the British music scene today, including Nicola Benedetti, Martyn Brabbins, Evelyn Glennie, Darren Henley, Gavin Higgins, Sam Lee, James MacMillan, Stephen Maddock, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, Gillian Moore, Chi-chi Nwanoku, David Pickard and Judith Weir.

20 April 2024 13.03 Edinburgh International Festival 1947
Richard Morrison explores the strength of Britain on the international music scene.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 28 Mar 24 - 07:03 PM

BBC Radio folk programmes March 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk BBC Folk Programmes March

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 26 Mar 24 - 06:19 PM

BBC Radio 4 New Storytellers presents the work of new radio and audio producers, and this series features the winners of the Charles Parker Prize 2022 for the Best Student Radio Feature. The award is presented every year in memory of the pioneering radio producer Charles Parker who produced the famous series of Radio Ballads with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger.

9.45 Monday 25 March Breathing Lyrical
9.45 Tuesday 26 March Down on the Farm
9.45 Wednesday 27 March He Wears a Mask, and His Face Grows to Fit It
9.45 Thursday 28 March Sara's Spirit
9.45 Friday 29 March The Sound Collector; Sara Parker introduces the Gold Winner
of the Charles Parker Prize for the Best Student Audio Feature 2023.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 23 Mar 24 - 01:57 PM

Apologies! Add To Playlist/Music Planet/Jazz Kerouac all Saturday 23 March.

Saturday 23 March 18:15 BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Gemma Whelan, Mark Watson, Shaznay Lewis and Mr Motivator for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
With music from The Mary Wallopers and Sahra.