BBC Radio This week 2024

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.