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Subject: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 11 Dec 23 - 04:58 PM Wednesday 03/01/2024 9pm BBC Radio 2 Folk Show The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe. The best in folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 Dec 23 - 08:37 PM BBC Category : Folk Heres the BBC page which gives links to their current Weekly/Monthly/Seasonal radio programmes and a few one-offs. Mostly regular shows (likely to change) and some old series which might episodes available Ambell i Gân (Cymru) A' Mire ri Mòir (Nan Gàidheal) Caithream Ciùil (Nan Gàidhea Catgut and Ivory (Scotland) Celtic Heartbeat (Wales) Claire and Friends (Scotland\Shetland) Crùnluath (Nan Gàidheal) Dashing White Farmer (Scotland\Orkney) Fae Hameaboot (Scotland) Folk Club with Lynette Fay (Ulster) Georgia Ruth (Cymru) * Iain Anderson (r2) Music Planet (r3) Oota Da Cans (winter only) (Scotland) Pipeline (Scotland) Pipes and Drums (Scotland) The Piping Season (Scotland) Piping Sounds (Scotland) Roddy Hart (Scotland) Saltfish Sessions (Scotland\Orkney) Sruth na Maoile (Nan Gàidheal 2019) Take the Floor - Gary Innes (Scotland) The Folk Show With Mark Radcliffe (r2) Tim Walker's Folk (Lincolnshire) Tiompan (Nan Gàidheal) Trad Ar Fad! (Ulster) Travelling Folk (Scotland) What's the Craic - Irish music scene (Scotland\Orkney) - NB open the link in a browser; don't just click the link or it will try to open your 'Sounds' app and this doesn't provide the same information as the web page - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk?sort=title *One regular programme missing from the page above : Iain Anderson (country, folk, blues and soul) r2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074hkv/episodes/player |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 Dec 23 - 08:39 PM There is a separate mudcat thread listing links to BBC radio programmes 'available for over a year'. https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171922 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 Dec 23 - 08:43 PM Also of interest might be this search page which gives 20+ pages of radio and TV. But it isn't sortable & doesn't indicate which pages have available programmes. It's useful to see what the BBC has broadcast in the past though. www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Folk other BBC collection pages Category : World - radio Current shows; a wide interpretation of 'world' plus a few extra programmes. - open in a browser - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-world Genre : music : World - radio & TV www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/music/world/player |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 16 Dec 23 - 08:57 AM You can also search for; BBC Sounds music category folk Jan 2024 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 16 Dec 23 - 07:03 PM ^^^^^ Oh,,, I forgot this weekly show which, I think, doesn't come up in the pages above Blas Ceoil - Radio Ulster ,,,starts your weekend in style, featuring new releases, gig guide details and live acoustic sessions to keep. (in Gaelic; quite a lot of chat) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cmsk6/episodes/ & check the 'clips' tab. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 17 Dec 23 - 05:57 AM BBC Radio Scotland 20.00 Thursday Travelling Folk 21 December 2023 Travelling Folk's annual Christmas Ceilidh. Anna Massie joins the house band led by Angus Lyon and featuring Jenna Reid & James Lindsay. Special guest performances come from Hannah Rarity, Lewis McLaughlin and Graham Rorie & Rory Matheson. 11 January 2024 The very best of folk and roots music from around the world. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 20 Dec 23 - 01:42 AM BBC Radio 2 20.00 Wednesday 3 January Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe To start 2024, Mark welcomes Nick Hart and Tom Moore, two of English folk music's brightest talents. Nick sings and plays the viol (or viola da gamba) while Tom plays viola. The pair have combined to make an excellent new album called The Colour of Amber, released on Tom's Slow Worm Records label. Nick has previously guested on The Folk Show as a solo singer and guitarist. Besides singing, he acts and trades in unusual instruments. Tom Moore is a musician and producer who co-founded Moore Moss Rutter and has also played fiddle for False Lights. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 20 Dec 23 - 02:05 AM Caithream Ciùil BBC Radio nan Gàidheal Prògram de cheòl Ceilteach. Celtic music programme 13.30 to 15.30 Monday to Friday. Available now; 22 episodes. Monday 19 December 2023 Caithream Ciùil còmhla ri Mairead NicIllInnein. Ceòl Gaidhealach 's Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air na tha dol agaibhse, còmhla ri Mairead NicIllInnein. Tha ceòl aig Mairead bho Imar, Kathryn Tickell, A Winter Union agus Ricky Skaggs. Cuiribh fios thugainn mu na tachartasan tha dol agaibhse gu dethadol@bbc.co.uk. 29 days left to listen. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST Date: 20 Dec 23 - 10:21 AM Programme about the South Yorkshire Carols 6.15 PM BBC R3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001thbn |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Long Firm Freddie Date: 20 Dec 23 - 03:33 PM Fabulous programme from 1957: Sing Christmas Sing Christmas Archive on 4 The memories of those involved in the BBC's 1957 groundbreaking hour-long live Christmas Day broadcast from around the country. LFF |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 Dec 23 - 03:02 AM BBC RADIO ULSTER Irish Music Icons Moya Brennan 26 days left to listen Horslips 29 days left tolisten Repeated Wed 3 Jan 2024 Paul Brady 27 days left to listen Repeated Thu 4 Jan 2024 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 Dec 23 - 03:34 AM BBC Radio Scotland Tuesday Folk Orkney piper Andy Cant presents traditional and modern folk from the past and present. 05/12/2023 12 days left to listen 16/01/2024 18:00 Traditional and Modern Folk from the past and present. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 02 Jan 24 - 01:15 AM BBC Radio Scotland Tuesday 18:00 16/01/2024 Fae Hameaboot Barbara Cheyne takes a musical tour including some songs and tunes from Shetland and further afield. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 02 Jan 24 - 06:27 AM ^^^ BBC RADIO ULSTER Irish Music Icons note although the 'radio broadcasts' are only available for a limited time on 'Sounds' most of the interviews for this series have videos which seem to be available for longer\indefinitely : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dq7v/clips |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 02 Jan 24 - 11:45 AM Tuesday 16 Jan 2024 18:00 BBC RADIO SCOTLAND BBC RADIO ORKNEY Tuesday Folk Traditional and Modern Folk from the past and present. 1 hour Tuesday 16 Jan 2024 18:00 BBC RADIO SCOTLAND BBC RADIO SHETLAND Fae Hameaboot Barbara Cheyne takes a musical tour including some songs and tunes from Shetland and further afield. 1 hour Broadcast on 19 December 2023; Available now on BBC Sounds. I assume that these refer to the same broadcast. We shall see! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 10 Jan 24 - 03:37 PM Wednesday 10 January 19:15 BBC Radio 4 Front Row Eliza Carthy is Front Row’s wassail Queen as she sings live on the programme some traditional songs from Glad Christmas Comes - her new album with Jon Boden lead singer of Bellowhead. Her performance joins in with many others happening across the country this month to mark the January ritual of blessing fruit trees in hope of a bountiful harvest. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 10 Jan 24 - 03:55 PM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe 21:00 3 January Nick Hart and Tom Moore 23 days left to listen Nick sings and plays the viol (or viola da gamba) while Tom plays viola. The pair have combined to make an excellent new album called The Colour of Amber, released on Tom's Slow Worm Records label. 21:00 10 January Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain World-class musicians Catrin Finch (harp) and Aoife Ní Bhriain (violin) talk about their duo. The pair's album, Double You, is out now. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 10 Jan 24 - 09:58 PM The Power of Song - Jan 2024 Thinking Allowed Laurie Taylor talks to James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of York and author of a new study which explores the cultural history of "Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity. How did a simple Christian hymn, written in a remote English vicarage in 1772, come to hold such sway over millions in all corners of the modern world? Also, Angela Impey Professor of Enthomusicology at SOAS[School of Oriental and African Studies], argues that songs in South Sudan can be key platform for truth-telling, often invested with greater moral force than other forms of communication in the context of 50 years of civil war. What role can songs play in the struggle for peace and justice? Producer: Jayne Egerton www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001v3mb Book: Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn (University of California Press) Book chapter: 'Orality and the poetics of forgiveness in South Sudan.' In: Fifer, Julian, Impey, Angela, Kirchschlaeger, Peter G., Nowak, Manfred and Ulrich, George, (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights (Routledge Companion Series and SOAS Studies in Music) |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 11 Jan 24 - 03:00 PM BBC Radio 4 10 Jan 2024 Thinking Allowed Available for over a year The power of song: Laurie Taylor talks to James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of York and author of a new study which explores the cultural history of "Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity. How did a simple Christian hymn, written in a remote English vicarage in 1772, come to hold such sway over millions in all corners of the modern world? Also, Angela Impey Professor of Enthomusicology at SOAS, argues that songs in South Sudan can be key platform for truth-telling, often invested with greater moral force than other forms of communication in the context of 50 years of civil war. What role can songs play in the struggle for peace and justice? |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 12 Jan 24 - 04:54 AM BBCRadio 4 Great Lives - Harry Belafonte "Mr Motivator picks Harry Belafonte Great Lives Harry Belafonte became the King of Calypso with hits like 'Day-O' and 'Jump in the Line' but he would later describe himself as an activist who became a musician and an actor. Fitness guru Derrick Evans MBE AKA 'Mr Motivator' spent much of the 90s on TV wearing brightly-coloured spandex and encouraging people to be more active. He stresses the political messages that underpin Calypso music and celebrates the stand Belafonte took in the campaign for civil rights in America in the 1960s. Derrick moved from Jamaica to the UK when he was a boy and remembers the impact of the Belafonte film 'Carmen Jones'. Presenter: Matthew Parris Guest: Derrick Evans AKA 'Mr Motivator' Producer: Toby Field for BBC Audio Bristol" |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 12 Jan 24 - 02:46 PM BBC Sounds 7 January Desert Island Discs Graham Nash Available for over a year The singer and songwriter Graham Nash is best known as part of The Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash but he’s also a celebrated photographer. Born in Blackpool he now lives in Manhattan having gone via Salford, where he grew up, and California among other places. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame not once but twice, first as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1997 then in 2010 as part of The Hollies. He also received an OBE in 2010 “for services to music and charitable activities”. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Steve Shaw Date: 12 Jan 24 - 03:14 PM My mum also grew up in Salford, but, far from developing into a world-famous rock star, she went on to run a chippie in Radcliffe and I'm glad she did. Damn good chippie it was! That Desert Island Discs was one of the better episodes. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 Jan 24 - 05:40 PM BBC Radio 3 Music Planet Saturday 13 January Sámi Road Trip 29 days to listen Lopa Kothari with new releases from Suriname, Dominican Republic, Portugal, Argentina and Mali. Also Finnish radio producer Sebastian Bergholm takes us on a Road Trip to the far north exploring the rich tradition of Sámi yoiking. 20 January 16:00 Celtic Connections: Beòlach Kathryn Tickell with a live show from this year's festival in Glasgow including a set from Canadian folk band Beòlach with traditional tunes from Cape Breton, Scotland and Ireland. 27 January 16:00 Celtic Connections live from Glasgow In the second of two programmes from BBC Scotland’s music studio, a selection of Festival’s leading artists come together in special performances for Music Planet – including Ævestaden, a Norwegian-Swedish trio who blend traditional instruments with electronics in songs which bring Scandinavian folklore into the modern age. 3 February 16:00 Seckou Keita repeat Kathryn Tickell and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita share the music that has inspired and influenced them. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 Jan 24 - 06:43 PM *Celtic Connections 2024 BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Wednesday 21:00 17 January Emily Portman and Alasdair Roberts from The Furrow Collective talk about their latest music. *24 January 21:00 Mark Radcliffe introduces live performances in Glasgow by Sarah Jarosz, The Paul McKenna Band and The Outside Track. 31 January Martyn Joseph live in session. Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Thursday *A Preview of Celtic Connections 2024 27 days left to listen Anna announces an all-star line-up for Travelling Folk at Celtic Connections 2024. Plus, creative director of the festival, Donald Shaw, joins her live with a preview of what's to come. 18 January 20:00 BBC Radio Scotland brings you the very best of today's music and song. *25 January 20:00 Celtic Connections Featuring performances from Kim Carnie, Canadian trio Good Lovelies, Project SMOK and Su-a Lee with Duncan Chisholm, Hamish Napier and Donald Shaw. Radio Scotland Wednesday 20:00 The Quay Sessions 17 January The Piano Sessions Enjoy piano sets recorded at Pacific Quay from Ricky Ross, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Kathryn Joseph, Billy Lockett, The Anchoress and The Divine Comedy. *24 January King Creosote, Rachel Sermanni and Rosie H Sullivan join Roddy Hart for a Celtic Connections special, recorded in front of an audience at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. 31 January Enjoy live performances from across the musical landscape - all captured in front of an audience in the intimate setting of the foyer at BBC Radio Scotland's Pacific Quay. BBC Radio Scotland Saturday Take the Floor 13 January 19:00 A session from Sandy Nixon and his Scottish Dance Band as they celebrate their 40th Anniversary year of broadcasting with the BBC. Gary is then joined by the Conductor and musical director of the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, Blair Parham. 29 days left to listen *20 January 19:30 Celtic Connections from BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow Gary introduces the bands of Nicol McLaren and the Glencraig Band & The Haggis Chasers. *27 January 19:00 Celtic Connections 2024: Leonard Brown and his All Star Band & Ian Smith Scottish Dance Band BBC Radio Scotland Afternoon Show Date to be confirmed *Join Michelle McManus as BBC Radio Scotland's The Afternoon Show celebrates this year's Celtic Connections line-up, with live performances and conversation from musicians performing across the winter music festival. BBC Radio Scotland For the Record Date to be confirmed *Nicola is joined by the Scottish singer-songwriter Eddi Reader who is celebrating over 40 years in the music industry, to talk about the music that has shaped her life and career. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Jan 24 - 03:02 AM BBC Radio Cymru Ambell i Gân Available episodes 17/12/2023 Sesiwn gan Jordan Price Williams 5 o ddyddiau ar ôl i wrando Gwenan Gibbard sy'n cyflwyno cyfoeth ac amrywiaeth cerddoriaeth werin Cymru, yn cynnwys sgwrs gydag Arfon Williams, Cwmtirmynach a sesiwn newydd gan Jordan Price Williams, aelod o'r grwp Vri. 24/12/2023 Angharad Jenkins yn westai 11 o ddyddiau ar ôl i wrando Sgwrs gyda Angharad Jenkins am ei halbym newydd a chyfraniadau gan Lleucu Gwawr, Gwyneth Glyn, Einir Humphreys a Gwilym Bowen Rhys. 31/12/2023 19 o ddyddiau ar ôl i wrando Gwenan Gibbard sy'n cyflwyno cyfoeth ac amrywiaeth cerddoriaeth werin Cymru. Gwennan Gibbard reflects on the richness and variety of Welsh folk music. Upcoming episodes 0 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 14 Jan 24 - 07:29 AM This Cultural Life - Nigel Kennedy Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 30.12.23 "John Wilson's guest is the violinist Nigel Kennedy. A prodigy whose childhood talents were nurtured by Yehudi Menuhin, one of the greatest violinist of the 20th century, Kennedy himself became an international star in 1989 with his recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. It sold over three million copies, topping the UK classical charts for a year and went on to be listed as the biggest selling classical album of all time in the Guinness Book Of Records. An unconventional classical musician from the outset, it wasn’t just his wardrobe, accent and attitude that set him apart. As well as recording all the major violin concertos, his repertoire includes jazz standards, folk tunes and Jimi Hendrix. He remains one of the world’s greatest virtuosos. For This Cultural Life, Nigel chooses his two violinist mentors; Yehudi Menuhin and the French musician Stéphane Grappelli with whom he shared a love of jazz and improvisation. Going to New York to study at the prestigious Juilliard School also proved a turning point for Kennedy, not so much for the teaching he received there, but for the legendary jazz musicians like Jimmy Rowles and Ellis Larkins that he sought out in clubs downtown and in Harlem. Nigel also discusses how being a fan of Aston Villa football club has made him think about crowd dynamics in his concerts and reveals the influence of his dog Huxley on his approach to his career." I found this an interesting programme. I have not listened to much of his output but I was struck by how warmly he spoke about Menuhin and Grappelli. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Jan 24 - 09:50 AM BBC Radio Scotland For the Record Karine Polwart 11 days left to listen Singer, songwriter and theatre-maker Karine Polwart talks to Nicola Meighan about the music which has soundtracked her life. Ken Loach 12 days left to listen Film director Ken Loach talks to Nicola about the songs that remind him of his childhood, the song that he wishes he'd written, the songs that best describe him and that have soundtracked his life. Friday 02 February 2024 15:00 Celtic Connections Eddi Reader Scottish singer-songwriter Eddi Reader tells Nicola Meighan about the music which illustrates key moments in her life. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Jan 24 - 11:49 PM Podcast; Folk on Foot Bagpuss is 50 years old this year! Matthew Bannister meets Sandra Kerr. She reflects on the impact of the show on children and her experiences as a nanny working for Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 16 Jan 24 - 11:20 AM Short series, not all broadcast yet. Some references to traditional music. Irish Classical - Hidden in Plain Sight Radio 3 Roisin Ni Dhuill tells the story of Irish Classical music. 1. Emigrant Pioneers 2. Growing an Irish tradition 3. Bringing it all back home www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001v1mz/episodes/guide |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST Date: 18 Jan 24 - 11:46 AM BBC World Service 18 Jan 2024 Food Chain; How to invent an apple Available for over a year. In this week’s episode Ruth Alexander finds out about the science behind finding that perfect crunch, how long it takes to be able to taste an apple you’ve spent years planning and how to grab consumers’ attention with a new breed. Ruth also visits a wassail at Apple Barn, Dunham Massey, Cheshire to experience an ancient tradition involving cider, hanging toast on a tree and lots of singing to encourage a good apple harvest for the year ahead. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Jan 24 - 11:58 AM BBC Sounds The Food Programme Wassail! Wassail! A celebration of cider, orchards and song 30 Jan 2022 Available for over a year Dan Saladino goes in search of the history, meaning and spirit of wassails and cider. In Somerset he takes part in a village wassail sung door to door and one sung in an orchard. Contributors: The Drayton village wassailers, Gerard Tucker, wassail master of ceremonies Music: Drayton Wassail (as documented by Cecil Sharp in 1903), Tam Lin, Fairport Convention (1968), Bruton Town, Pentangle (1968) |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Jan 24 - 12:05 PM BBC Sounds Open Country Somerset Wassail Sat 9 Feb 2019 Available now https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002cg1 In the depths of the winter, on the old 12th Night, an ancient custom is held in the cider apple orchards of Somerset. By 1990 wassailing in apple orchards had almost died out in Somerset, but over the last thirty years the tradition has undergone a remarkable revival. As Helen Mark finds out, it's now very much alive and well - and if nothing else, provides a good excuse for a party to brighten up the dark winter nights! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Jan 24 - 12:14 PM Wassailing on Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show - A West Countryman’s View Posted on April 3, 2017 by westcountryman http://www.westcountryman.co.uk/radio2wassail/ Having done an interview for BBC Radio Bristol about the ceremony of ‘Wassailing’ the apple trees, I received a call from the researcher for the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2. Would I help them with a live Wassail on the show was the question. Well… I could change things around a bit and be by the phone at the required time to do the interview. Oh no! They wanted me to go to London and do the thing live on air. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST Date: 20 Jan 24 - 02:01 AM Celtic Connections - reminder! Saturday 20 January 16:00 Radio 3 Music Planet Cape Breton folk band Beòlach with traditional tunes from the Celtic world. Fellow Canadian singer Kaia Kater also plays live, bringing her own songs rooted in Appalachian traditions, and the line-up in completed by Breton band Barzaz. Saturday 20 January 19:30 BBC Radio Scotland Take the Floor Gary introduces the bands of Nicol McLaren and the Glencraig Band & The Haggis Chasers. Wednesday 24 January 20:00 Radio Scotland The Quay Sessions King Creosote, Rachel Sermanni and Rosie H Sullivan join Roddy Hart for a Celtic Connections special, recorded at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. Wednesday 24 January 21:00 BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Mark Radcliffe introduces live performances in Glasgow by Sarah Jarosz, The Paul McKenna Band and The Outside Track. Thursday 25 January 20:00 Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Performances from Kim Carnie, Canadian trio Good Lovelies, Project SMOK and Su-a Lee with Duncan Chisholm, Hamish Napier and Donald Shaw. Saturday 27 January 16:00 Radio 3 Music Planet Ævestaden, a Norwegian-Swedish trio who blend traditional instruments with electronics in songs which bring Scandinavian folklore into the modern age. Daimh also plays live, a band based in the Scottish Highlands Saturday 27 January 19:00 BBC Radio Scotland Take the Floor Leonard Brown and his All Star Band & Ian Smith Scottish Dance Band Friday 02 February 2024 15:00 BBC Radio Scotland For the Record Scottish singer-songwriter Eddi Reader tells Nicola Meighan about the music which illustrates key moments in her life. BBC Radio Scotland Afternoon Show Date to be confirmed The Afternoon Show celebrates this year's Celtic Connections line-up, with live performances and conversation from musicians performing across the winter music festival. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 20 Jan 24 - 02:22 AM BBC Radio Scotland Afternoon Show Friday 12 January 14:00 Available for 22 days Live music from Scotland's foremost fiddle player John McCusker with fellow musicians Ian Carr and Michael McGoldrick. Thursday 18 January 13:30 Available for 28 days Roddy Hart and conductor John Logan tell Michelle about their Roaming Roots Revue concerts which take place this weekend as part of Celtic Connections Festival which begins today. Friday 19 January 14:00 Available for 29 days Nicola Meighan catches up with pop singer and legend of stage and screen Barbara Dickson. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 21 Jan 24 - 09:11 AM Dunno whether this belongs in one of the Jokes threads, but --- BBC Radio 4, 13:45--14:00 GMT, weekdays from 22nd Jan (tomorrow) to 2nd Feb: Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes
If some kind soul can add a blicky for Listen Again .... :-) |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 21 Jan 24 - 06:39 PM ^ Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes Radio 4 - 2024 Ian Hislop looks back to try and find the first examples of these jokes or comedy genres. We love a good parody but when did that become a thing? Can we really find Anglo-Saxon Double Entendre? You bet we can, and filthy to boot, another trove of British Humour. He visits libraries, museums and chapels, and also talks to comedy stars and writers of today like Nina Conti, Paul Whitehouse, comedy song writing duo Jo and Joan and parodist Craig Brown. Wordplay Double entendre The Drunk and the Bullion Stone VIsual Humour and Misericords The Heege Manuscript Animal Magic Parody and Sir Topaz Any Women here? Who is De Hoeghe Comic Song This should show the episodes as and when they are available on Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vkvg/episodes/player |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 Jan 24 - 04:38 AM Thursday 25 January BBC Radio Scotland 13:30 Afternoon Show Join Michelle McManus as BBC Radio Scotland's Afternoon Show celebrates this year's Celtic Connections line-up, with live performances and conversation from musicians performing across the winter music festival. 20:00 Travelling Folk Celtic Connections Performances from Kim Carnie, Canadian trio Good Lovelies, Project SMOK and Su-a Lee with Duncan Chisholm, Hamish Napier and Donald Shaw. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 Jan 24 - 10:13 AM Podcast 9 January 2024 Folk on Foot website, YouTube and podcast feed. Commissioned by English Folk Expo and compiled by the Official Charts Company. Matthew Bannister counts down the Official Folk Albums Chart of the Year 2023, with guest appearances from Sean Cooney of the Young’Uns, Kathryn Tickell, Shirley Collins and Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, plus performances from James Yorkston and Nina Persson, Angeline Morrison and Katherine Priddy. There will also be highlights of the December chart, including an interview with Jim Moray and music from Spell Songs, Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, and Kate Rusby. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 Jan 24 - 10:19 AM BBC Sounds Programmes categorised as Folk Music January 2024 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk?sort=popular BBC Sounds Folk Music Jan 24 That will save an lot of typing! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 Jan 24 - 11:53 AM Podcast Burns Banter - A fresh look at Robert Burns 16 January 2024 Episode 14 - Robert Burns' music with guests 'Garbh Uisge' On this week's show we have the band 'Garbh Uisge'. We chat about songs such as 'Ae Fond Kiss', 'Auld Lang Syne' and 'Green Grow the Rashes'. Garbh Uisge treat us to some live performances and unfortunately I also sing. We hear some great Burns waltzes and fast reels, talk about the stories behind the songs and generally have a good time. Tune in, listen and maybe even sing along with us ... |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 Jan 24 - 09:24 PM BBC Radio Scotland The Afternoon Show Celtic Connections Special live from Glasgow 26 days left to listen 2 hours, 28 minutes Michelle McManus hosts a special edition of the show celebrating Celtic Connections, broadcasting from the BBC's Glasgow studios at Pacific Quay with a live audience. She’ll have live music and conversation from Butler, Blake and Grant, the supergroup featuring Bernard Butler, formerly of Suede, Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake, and James Grant from Love & Money. Plus Scottish/Irish group Dallahan, who celebrate their tenth anniversary this year, and vocal harmony group CLR Theory. Scottish singer Iona Fyfe tells Michelle about Scots Women: Generations o' Change, an event she’s curating which showcases songs in Scots and English, performed by two generations of Scottish singers. She and singer Ellie Beaton play songs from the show live in Pacific Quay. Plus, Martin Green of Lau tells Michelle about his Celtic Connections show Split the Air, a music and storytelling celebration of the community spirit of brass bands. And songwriters Kathryn Joseph and Lomond Campbell join Michelle to discuss Lomond’s remixes of songs from Kathryn’s album 'for you who are the wronged' ahead of their debut gig together. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 31 Jan 24 - 12:32 AM Wassailing - A Collection of BBC Programmes Wassailing: An age-old tradition in modern day London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-68096577 Published 4 days ago Since the Middle Ages, wassailing has involved visiting cider apple orchards in the winter and singing to the trees as well as reciting incantations to promote a good harvest for the coming year. For the past 15 years, Ian White and others in Honor Oak, south-east London, have been meeting on the One Tree Hill Allotments to wassail the fruit trees. BBC Radio Humberside Sat 20 Jan 2024 Fiona Mills Morris Men's wassail, shopping centre theatre, Arthur Smith https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h37kvl 19 days left to listen Fiona chats to a group of Morris Dancers from Grimsby celebrating Wassail; a pop up theatre in a shopping centre, comedian Arthur Smith in Barton. BBC World Service 18 Jan 2024 Food Chain; How to invent an apple Available for over a year. In this week’s episode Ruth Alexander finds out about the science behind finding that perfect crunch, how long it takes to be able to taste an apple you’ve spent years planning and how to grab consumers’ attention with a new breed. Ruth also visits a wassail at Apple Barn, Dunham Massey, Cheshire to experience an ancient tradition involving cider, hanging toast on a tree and lots of singing to encourage a good apple harvest for the year ahead. BBC Sounds The Food Programme Wassail! Wassail! A celebration of cider, orchards and song 30 Jan 2022 Available for over a year Dan Saladino goes in search of the history, meaning and spirit of wassails and cider. In Somerset he takes part in a village wassail sung door to door and one sung in an orchard. Contributors: The Drayton village wassailers, Gerard Tucker, wassail master of ceremonies Music: Drayton Wassail (as documented by Cecil Sharp in 1903), Tam Lin, Fairport Convention (1968), Bruton Town, Pentangle (1968) BBC Sounds Open Country Somerset Wassail Sat 9 Feb 2019 Available now https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002cg1 In the depths of the winter, on the old 12th Night, an ancient custom is held in the cider apple orchards of Somerset. By 1990 wassailing in apple orchards had almost died out in Somerset, but over the last thirty years the tradition has undergone a remarkable revival. As Helen Mark finds out, it's now very much alive and well - and if nothing else, provides a good excuse for a party to brighten up the dark winter nights! Wassailing on Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show - A West Countryman’s View Posted on April 3, 2017 by westcountryman http://www.westcountryman.co.uk/radio2wassail/ Having done an interview for BBC Radio Bristol about the ceremony of ‘Wassailing’ the apple trees, I received a call from the researcher for the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2. Would I help them with a live Wassail on the show was the question. Well… I could change things around a bit and be by the phone at the required time to do the interview. Oh no! They wanted me to go to London and do the thing live on air. BBC Sounds The Early Music Show Here We Come a-Wassailing Sun 28 Dec 2014 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vdgq4 Download (UK Only) Lucie Skeaping investigates an ancient musical tradition whereby people went from door to door singing carols and were rewarded with hot mulled cider. Wassailing can be traced back possibly as far as Anglo-Saxon times and has evolved over time to become associated with Christmas. Lucie Skeaping introduces some of the music that has been associated with the wassailing tradition and her guests include the historian Joanna Crosby, from Essex Univeristy, who has a particular interest in apples. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 01 Feb 24 - 03:36 PM Does Neil Young qualify? BBC Sounds Celebrating Music's Greatest Stars; To mark over 60 years of Neil Young making music, Norwegian pop star Sigrid shares stories from his career and plays some of her favourite songs that mean so much to her. Sigrid: My Neil Young Fan Story 1 of 2 17 days left to listen Sigrid: My Neil Young Fan Story 2 of 2 17 days left to listen |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 03 Feb 24 - 01:51 PM Tamara Stefanovich, Martin Hayes Music Matters - Radio 3 - 3rd Feb 2024 Kate Molleson meets Irish fiddler Martin Hayes who shares his thoughts on the meaning of tradition, putting traditional music on the concert platform, and how the musicians who played and ate around the kitchen table of his childhood home in County Clare continue to inspire his musical life. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vv1k > 22:40 or 21:00(?) if they've edited out the intro. ~17 minutes 224° 21°° |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 07 Feb 24 - 01:50 PM Friday 9 February 19.15 BBC Radio 4 Add To Playlist Presented, with music direction, by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye It's the start of a new playlist, and to get things going, singer/songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae and the Scottish operatic tenor Nicky Spence join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye as they add the first five tracks. As well as discussing the five compositions, the four are outnumbered by the London Bulgarian Choir who give a special live performance in the Add to Playlist studio. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 08 Feb 24 - 06:42 AM Broadcaston BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 4tb Feb and available for 24 days Desert Island Discs - Val Wilmer "Val Wilmer has photographed and interviewed many of the most significant musicians of the post-war years, including Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and many more. Val grew up in Streatham in South London, where a local record shop helped to nurture her love of music, especially jazz. Her lifelong passion for jazz and photography began at an early age: when she was just 14 years old, she persuaded her mother to take her to London Airport to see off the jazz legend Louis Armstrong who had been playing in the UK. She asked him for an autograph, then took a picture of him as he broke into a huge smile. The image was the first of many classic shots. Alongside her work as a photographer, Val has written extensively about music, as a journalist for numerous publications and as an author: her book As Serious As Your Life, examining the evolution of free jazz within the wider context of racial and sexual politics, has been widely acclaimed as a classic text. In 1983 she co-founded Format, the first all-female photographic agency, which aimed to champion women photographers and to widen the range of images available to newspapers and magazines. Her photographs are held in the collections of the V&A and the National Portrait Gallery." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Date: 08 Feb 24 - 07:57 AM I've never been a fan of Martin Hayes & his attempts at 'fusion' music, but maybe that's me? I just happened to hear him speaking on Radio 3 'Music Matters' as listed above. He had some very shrewd comments about folk music and I'd agree with most of what he said- worth a listen! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 13 Feb 24 - 04:55 PM The Song Thief BBC Radio 4 - Feb 2024 five x15 minute episodes An eerie tale of forgotten songs and vengeful spirits by Belfast author Colin Carberry (Good Vibrations). Read by Aoibhéann McCann (Blue Lights). ‘The Song Thief’ follows Harry Probyn on his journey across Ireland to find Aislinn Byrne, the woman who started his song-writing career. After recording her sing years before in Ireland, Harry stole her song ‘Bluebell Wood’. He shared it with the world and made his fortune. Now penniless and on the run from the violent Shanks family, Harry must return to Ireland and find a new hit song. Featuring traditional folk music from the BBC Archives recorded on location in Ireland and America in the 1950s. (no music in the first episode) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w75k/episodes/player |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 19 Feb 24 - 11:28 PM BBC Radio 3 Words and Music 17.30 Sunday 11 Feb 2024 For love of Bagpuss 21 days to listen Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner provided the music for the series and you'll hear some of that alongside compositions by Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Hindemith, Florence Price, Ailbhe McDonagh and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Feb 24 - 12:52 PM BBC Sounds Radio 4 Front Row Tuesday 20 February Rhiannon Giddens for the first 20 minutes Available for over a year |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Feb 24 - 04:31 PM https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk BBC Sounds Folk A list of folk music programmes - mostly weekly shows - broadcast by BBC radio stations so far in February. There are usually links to other editions available. It's a little harder to find programmes in advance, especially if they are one-offs. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 Feb 24 - 07:36 AM BBC Radio 3 Saturday 24 February 2024 16:00 Music Planet Celtic Connectons concert from Glasgow Kathryn Tickell introduces highlights from a concert recorded earlier this month at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, in which the Orkney band Fara come together with guest musicians to make connections both within the Celtic world and way beyond. These include Montreal-based band Genticorum, who perform the traditional songs of Quebec; Jonathan Scales, a steel pan player from New York; Syrian qanun virtuoso Maya Youssef; and Les Amazones d'Afrique, whose singers come from Mali, Benin and Congo. Also in the mix is new Scottish string ensemble Thirteen North, performing arrangements made specially for the concert. Recorded at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 05 Mar 24 - 03:03 PM BBC Radio 4 Tuesday 5 March 2024 19.15 Front Row Kate Rusby performs live and chats about her new Singy Songy Session Tour. 12 April 2024 Buxton Opera House 13 April 2024 The Baths Hall Scunthorpe 14 April 2024 Victoria Theatre Halifax 18 April 2024 Pavilion Theatre Glasgow 21 April 2024 Theatre Severn Shrewsbury 22 April 2024 Floral Pavilion New Brighton 25 April 2024 Exeter Corn Exchange 26 April 2024 Memorial Theatre Frome 27 April 2024 Lighthouse Poole 7 May 2024 Assembly Hall Theatre Tunbridge Wells 8 May 2024 Oxford Playhouse 9 May 2024 The Cresset Peterborough 11 May 2024 Warwick Arts Centre Coventry 12 May 2024 Pavilion Theatre Worthing 13 May 2024 Churchill Theatre Bromley 14 May 2024 The Apex Bury St Edmund |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Mar 24 - 02:35 PM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show 21:00 Wednesday 21 February 2024 16 days left to listen Katherine Priddy performs songs from her new album The Pendulum Swing. 28 Feb 2024 Available for 23 days Acoustic sounds, including songs by Martin Simpson, Rhiannon Giddens and Cara Dillon. 06 March 2024 Cara Dillon: growing up and coming home Celebrated singer Cara Dillon performs works inspired by family, including her mother. 13 March 2024 Catching up with Sam Lee The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe, including guest Sam Lee. 20 March 2024 Show of Hands complete a full circle Steve Knightley and Phil Beer AKA Show of Hands perform live in Salford. The duo are on a lengthy 'Full Circle' tour, concluding decades as one of the UK's most popular folk acts. 27 March 2024 Singer and guitarist John Smith is Mark's guest Guitarist and songwriter John Smith talks about his latest album, The Living Kind. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST Date: 09 Mar 24 - 09:36 AM BBC Radio Ulster Went out on the 5th March but available as a Podcast, Ralph MacLean’s show has a history of the Les Cousins club. I think he’s the modern day John Peel… |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 09 Mar 24 - 10:32 AM BBC Radio Ulster The Ralph McLean Show Thursday 20.00 BBC Sounds Radio Ulster Ralph traces the history of the legendary Soho folk and blues club Les Cousins with musician Ian A Anderson and music from the likes of Bert Jansch, Nick Drake and Paul Simon. 26 days left to listen Ralph McLean Country Wednesday 20.00 BBC Sounds Radio Ulster Ralph has Valentine's night tracks from Allison Russell, John Prine and Johnny Cash plus this week's classic album is Green River from Creedence Clearwater Revival. 6 days left to listen Ralph has music from Brown Horse, Gillian Welch, The Hanging Stars and The Jayhawks and his classic album this week is No Other by Gene Clark. 13 days left to listen Ralph has exclusive session tracks from Steve Earle and new music from Oisin Leech, Paul Lush and Katie Pruitt. 20 days left to listen Ralph has music and chat from Louisiana singer songwriter Mary Gauthier and new music from The Hanging Stars, Ags Connolly and Margo Price. 27 days left to listen |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 09 Mar 24 - 10:57 AM BBC Radio 3 16:00 Saturday Music Planet 9 March Lopa Kothari with previously unbroadcast material from a set by Femi Kuti and his band The Positive Force, performing live at WOMAD last year. 16 March Lopa Kothari with latest new releases and a specially recorded studio session by Polish string band Volosi. 23 March Lopa Kothari presents a recording of Colombia's Meridian Brothers, live at Kings Place in London, as part of the Songlines Encounters festival. 30 March Tabla player Zakir Hussain is in conversation with Lopa Kothari, sharing his favourite music, as well as discussing his career and musical influences. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,sortaottery Date: 12 Mar 24 - 02:43 PM Any idea who plays the fiddle in the intro to the Radio 4 Book of the Week Blood in the Machine? I can't see a name on the programme website. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Mar 24 - 04:11 AM BBC Radio 4 10.00 Wednesday 14 March Woman's Hour With music from Cara Dillon |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 14 Mar 24 - 05:25 PM Paul Theroux on Orwell; Patsy Rodenburg on training actors; musician Sam Lee - 2024 Front Row Sam Lee, Bernard Butler and James Keay perform live and talk about Sam's new album, Songdreaming. Sam draws on traditional songs to explore the richness and fragility of the natural world here in the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001x53x > skip to 29.20 12 minutes |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 21 Mar 24 - 08:23 AM Particularly good tracks on Oota Da Cans this month(March 2024) I thought. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xfng |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 Mar 24 - 12:02 PM Sunday 23 March 22:15 BBC Radio 4 Add To Playlist Available now Eliza Carthy and Tim Rhys-Evans share the joys of singing Fiddler and folk musician Eliza Carthy and choral conductor Tim Rhys-Evans join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye as they add the next five tracks. Starting at a famous masked ball in Vienna, they then head for the Genoa docks, rounding off with a cheeky Soca hip-thrusting classic. In the penultimate episode of the current series, recorder player and baroque flautist Heidi Fardell demonstrates some of her collection of early instruments. Producer Jerome Weatherald Presented, with music direction, by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye The five tracks in this week's playlist: 'Ach, ich darf nicht hin zu dir!' From Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II La Partenza (The Parting) by Trallaleri of Genoa Gagliarda by Giorgio Mainerio How High The Moon by Ella Fitzgerald Dollar Wine by Colin Lucas Other music in this episode: Hotel California by The Eagles The Flower Duet from the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes Eye of the Tiger by Survivor Battalia a 10 by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Die Katz (The Cat) by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Mack the Knife by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, sung by Ella Fitzgerald |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 Mar 24 - 12:09 PM Sunday 23 March 2024 BBC Radio 3 16:00 Music Planet Lopa Kothari presents a recording of Colombia's Meridian Brothers, live at Kings Place in London, as part of the Songlines Encounters festival. Hailing from Bogota the Meridian Brother's music is an uncategorizable mix of Latin rhythms and genres, taking in Cumbia, Salsa and Currulao and spinning it all through a psychedelic prism. Lopa heads backstage and talks to Eblis Álvarez, the man behind the music, to find out more about the roots of the Meridian Brother's unique sound. 17:00 J to Z Jazz Kerouac Jumoké Fashola marks the centenary of jazz poet and 'King of the Beats' Jack Kerouac with a musical journey through his landmark novel On the Road and later works of poetry. From Billie Holiday to Charlie Parker and Lionel Hampton to Slim Gaillard, Kerouac had a magical way of bringing the records, the clubs and the performances he witnessed to life, while incorporating the rhythms, the freedom and the energy of jazz into his writing. Travelling back to the 1950s, Jumoké plays music by the artists who inspired and enthralled him, unearthing some of Kerouac’s own collaborations with jazz musicians as well as tributes from the greats. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. 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 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 11 Apr 24 - 06:18 PM 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 |
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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. 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 |
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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' 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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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." |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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, |
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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. |
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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." ++ 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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.' |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 ++ 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. ++ 1. |
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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. |
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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." |
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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." ++ 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." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 08 Oct 24 - 07:08 AM BBC Radio 4 Illuminated - The Suitcase "On their last tour, the award-winning folk band The Young'uns took with them an old suitcase, some blank luggage tags and marker pens, and asked audience members to fill the case with ideas for songs. Hundreds poured in with stories of hope, remembrance, love, grief and joy. In this programme, singer-songwriter Sean Cooney opens the case to find a myriad of voices all waiting...wanting to be heard. He follows three stories of love... from a couple who found each other in their 70s through their shared passion of Middlesbrough Football Club, to a story of love, loss and renewal on the banks of the Thames. He meets up with Angela to hear a tale of how some borrowed boots outside a disco led to several dates, a marriage and three children. Inspired by this wonderful story, Sean writes a song to surprise the man with the borrowed boots - Angela's now-husband. Presenter: Sean Cooney Producer: Elizabeth Foster" |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 09 Oct 24 - 02:50 PM BBC Sounds/Radio 3 Music Planet Flamenco Road Trip; Lopa Kothari presents the best roots-based music and Betto Arcos explores the Flamenco scene. 12 days left to listen Toumani Diabate; Lucy Duran joins Kathryn Tickell to remember the late Toumani Diabate, the great Malian kora player who died earlier this year. 19 days left to listen Buzz' Ayaz; Lopa Kothari with the best roots-based music from across the world - and a live session of Eastern-Mediterranean psychedelia from Buzz' Ayaz. 26 days left to listen 19 October 2024 21:30 Indigenous Voices of the Americas; Kathryn Tickell with music from Brazil, Georgia and Togo plus a Road Trip exploring the indigenous voices of the Americas. 26 October 2024 21:30 Live from WOMEX; Lopa Kothari is live from worldwide music expo WOMEX, this year taking place in Manchester. BBC Sounds/Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Acoustic sounds, with Sam Carter in session. 9 days left to listen Folk goes pop. 16 days left to listen Autumn migrations, and guest Johnny Flynn. 23 days left to listen 09 October 2024 21:00 Canadian Kaia Kater in session. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 Oct 24 - 06:02 AM BBC Radio 4 10:00am Sunday 20 October Desert Island Discs; Shirley Collins. First broadcast Sunday 6 Aug 2023 Shirley was born in Sussex in 1935. She can still recall how her grandfather used to sing folk songs to comfort her while they were sheltering during German air raids in the early 1940s. Alongside her career as a singer, in the 1950s she travelled to the American South with Alan Lomax, where they made field recordings of blues and folk musicians, helping to create a significant archive. Later in her performing career, Shirley found that she could no longer sing, following a distressing betrayal in her private life. She stepped away from music and was silent for many years, taking on other work, including a stint in a job centre Then, in her 80s, she found her voice again. In 2016 she released her first new album after a gap of almost four decades, and she has since released two more albums. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 17 Oct 24 - 12:43 PM The new series(monthly Oct-March) of Orkney Folk Music on Radio Scotland started with Jennifer [Wrigley] talks to Orkney piper, fiddle player and composer Andy Cant about his music and influences and hears the tunes which have shaped his musical journey. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00931r9/episodes/player |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Oct 24 - 09:31 AM BBC iplayer (yes, TV!) Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two Part Two Available until Monday 1:30am https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00233z5/peter-paul-and-mary-rhythm-on-two-part-two Second part of a concert given by well-known American folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary during a visit to the UK in 1983. Recorded on location at the Southport Theatre. First shown 9:45pm 26 Nov 1983 Joni Mitchell in Concert Available for 23 days https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0023sy2/joni-mitchell-in-concert?at_mid=GT5khuymAE&at_campaign=Joni_Mitchell_in_Concert&at_medium=display_ad&at_campaign_type=owned&at_audience_id=SS&at_product=iplayer&at_brand=m0023sy2&at_ptr_name=bbc&at_ptr_type=media&at_format=image&at_objective=consumption&at_link_title=Joni_Mitchell_in_Concert&at_bbc_team=BBC A performance from 1970 by celebrated singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, which includes her songs Both Sides Now, California, Big Yellow Taxi and Chelsea Morning. First shown 10:15pm 9 Oct 1970 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Oct 24 - 10:27 AM BBC iplayer cont'd To find more concerts briefly available, click on 'More like this' at the bottom of the above pages. Including; Folk America at the Barbican Judy Collins Available until Sun 10:30pm First shown 22 Apr 2009 Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2015: 8. Kate Rusby Available until Mon 12:30am |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Oct 24 - 04:09 PM BBC iplayer The Tales of Folk https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/m0023m3p Including Tonight in Person Judy Collins. 1966 concert by American folk singer Judy Collins. Available until Sun 11:01pm Featuring Turn Turn Turn, Hey Nelly Nelly and My Rambling Boy. Her first visit to England. First shown 10:20pm 2 May 1966 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,Steve Shaw Date: 19 Oct 24 - 04:38 AM Thanks for pointing me to Joanie, henryp. Just half an hour, but a truly sublime half-hour. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 20 Oct 24 - 07:22 AM Thank you, Steve. And available on BBC iplayer for 21 days! BBC iplayer The Tales of Folk - Several of these concerts will expire late tonight! I found them tucked away on BBC iplayer - I certainly didn't see any publicity for them. And it appears that there was a series of similar concerts in September that I missed completely! A concert by well-known American folk singers Peter, Paul and Mary, recorded on location at the Southport Theatre. From 1983. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00233z2/peter-paul-and-mary-rhythm-on-two-part-one?seriesId=unsliced Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two; Part One Expires tonight 1:01am https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00233z5/peter-paul-and-mary-rhythm-on-two-part-two?seriesId=unsliced Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two Part Two Expires tonight 1:30am |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 20 Oct 24 - 12:27 PM BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk BBC Sounds 4 days ago · Browse all Folk radio shows, podcasts and mixes in BBC Sounds. See what's new, what's popular, or browse by a-z. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 21 Oct 24 - 11:51 AM Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016 Sweet Mother KD "Laura Barton sorts through myth and misdirection to tell the story of Karen Dalton, the folk world's answer to Billie Holiday. Karen was a mesmerising singer, the queen of Greenwich Village. Playing 12-string guitar or long-neck banjo, she sang blues, folk, country, pop, Motown – re-making each song in her own inimitable, heartbreaking style. She was never known as a songwriter in her lifetime, but rather as an interpreter of other people’s songs. Dalton's sometime harmonica player Bob Dylan wrote in his memoir, "my favourite singer was Karen Dalton... she had a voice like Billie Holiday's and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed and went all the way with it." She went all the way with it. Karen Dalton went so far that it seems not many people were prepared to follow and her life story is peppered with gaps and sadness, a catalogue of tall tales left in her wake. She was married and divorced twice, with two children, while still in her teens. Some say she was half-Cherokee, that she kidnapped one of her own children and ran away to New York City. Some say that she had to be tricked into recording her first album, and that her missing teeth came at the hands of a jealous lover. Some say she was homeless, penniless and that she died of AIDS on the New York streets. That particular detail happens not to be true, but what is certain is that she was a powerful singer and performer who – whether through disinterest on her part, lousy timing, bad luck or bad habits – never really realised her potential. The mysteries that surround her life may be part of the reason for a recent resurgence of interest in Karen Dalton. In the last few years, several CDs of reissued and previously unreleased material have appeared. But there’s been another, more illuminating, if bitter-sweet, reinvention as well. After Karen Dalton’s death, her papers came into the possession of her friend Peter Walker. Contained in these folders, among the transcriptions of traditional songs, mementoes, doodles and fragments, are a number of original poems and songs that shed a new light on a performer previously only known for giving heart-breaking voice to other people’s material. Featuring: Sharon Van Etten Dan Hankin, Josh Rosenthal Peter Stampfel Peter Walker Producer: Martin Williams" |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Oct 24 - 11:45 PM BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jrvkbj Attenborough Available for over a year History of the BBC; David Attenborough and the Natural History of Folk 1953 2 minutes Sir David Attenborough recalls accidentally blowing the programme budget for Song Hunter on train fares from Scotland. Alan Lomax had arranged for six women from Benbecula to come to London to perform their wauking songs. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 Oct 24 - 12:16 AM BBC Sounds Music Planet: Road Trip North Carolina 07 December 2018 Available now 14 minutes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06txym1 North Carolina Old-style traditional musician Riley Baugus reports from the Blue Ridge Mountains with a banjo-fuelled, foot-stomping road trip through the Appalachians |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 22 Oct 24 - 06:04 AM On BBC Radio 4 Extra this afternoon. Available on BBC Sounds now. The Physicist's Guide to the Orchestra "In 1945, Benjamin Britten wrote The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, showing off the instruments of the orchestra in a short film. Viewers are taken through each section of the orchestra accompanied by a narration which describes the different sound quality of instruments: 'Clarinets ... make a beautifully smooth, mellow sound', flutes have a 'sweet voice' and the oboe has a 'plaintive quality.' Trevor Cox looks at the physics behind the way orchestral instruments produce their unique sound. How is the sound produced, and how much does the material from which the instrument is made affect the sound? Trevor Cox is Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford. He talks to scientists who have studied musical instruments: * David Sharp from the Open University * Mike Newton at Edinburgh University * Jim Woodhouse of Cambridge University Members of the BBC Philharmonic provide the players' perspective. Producer: Nick Holmes An R&M North production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2012." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 Oct 24 - 10:47 AM BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0js87mj Attenborough Available for over a year History of the BBC; David Attenborough and the Natural History of Folk: Drinks on Set 2 minutes. David Attenborough recalls the negotiations to allow alcohol on set for Song Hunter. 1953 The broadside Up to the Rigs of London Town is a song from the repertoire of Harry Cox. E.J. Moeran collected it from him in 1924, and Peter Kennedy recorded him in his home in Catfield in October 1953. Charlie Wills also sang Up to the Rigs of London Town, in The Sun, Powerstock, Dorset, in August 1956, recorded by Mervyn Plunkett. Another version, recorded by Bill Leader, was published in 1972 on the singer’s eponymous Leader album, Charlie Wills. From Mainly Norfolk. Thank you, Reinhard. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 Oct 24 - 06:00 PM BBC Sounds History of the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0js828j Attenborough David Attenborough, World Music Collector: Tracking down folk singer Margaret Barry Available for over a year David Attenborough recalls the making of the television programme Song Hunter. 1 minute BBC Sounds History of the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jrvkk1 Jaws harp Sound Archive: Jaws Harp Available for over a year Recording of jaws harp played by man from the Chimbu district, Wahgi Valley, New Guinea. 1:06 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 Oct 24 - 06:28 PM BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Wednesday 9pm 23 October An acoustic treasure trove Mark shares new releases by Joachim Cooder, Angeline Morrison, Laura Marling and Ross Ainslie. There's also a 1960s home demo by a teenage Sandy Denny and a chance to hear Cerys Hafana singing live in Germany. Also, Tom Besford from SoundRoots tells Mark about the global music festival, WOMEX, which starts in Manchester tonight. 30 October Acoustic sounds, with treats from WOMEX This week, Mark plays Halloween-themed tracks by Bellowhead and Tunng. There's also a chance to hear live music from the global music festival and expo, WOMEX, which happened in Manchester last week. 6 November London duo Stick In The Wheel play live The London duo, Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter, perform songs from their latest album, A Thousand Pokes. Stick In The Wheel are renowned for their distinctive takes on urban life, past and present. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 22 Oct 24 - 07:11 PM Thanks for those David Attenborough clips. Good excuse to revisit the complete programme : David Attenborough - World Music Collector - 2016 David Attenborough reveals a side of himself that nobody knows, as a collector of music from all over the world. We hear the stories that surround it, and the music itself. One of David Attenborough's first projects was 'Alan Lomax - Song Hunter', a television series he produced in 1953-4. The famous collector of the blues and folk music of America gathered traditional musicians from all over Britain and Ireland and, for the first time, they appeared on television. David loved the music, the people and, inspired by Lomax, he became music collector himself. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0857wv1 and the shorter David Attenborough's Global Mixtape - 2018 Music Planet Sir David Attenborough first became nationally known as the presenter of BBC TV's Zoo Quest, a series based on expeditions to catch exotic animals for London Zoo. The programmes ran from 1954 to 1963, and in his spare time during the filming, Sir David made sound recordings of the local music. In this Music Planet Mixtape, Sir David introduces some of his favourites. His picks include sparkling harp playing from Paraguay, the chanting of his team's luggage-carriers in New Guinea and the funeral gongs of the Dyak people in Borneo. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06vz9sk |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 23 Oct 24 - 07:36 PM OK, Cult not Folk! ;) This short series is being repeated at the moment. Cutler the Lax - 2014 Legendary Scottish surrealist Ivor Cutler,,,, Episode 1 - ,,, provides disappointment for cavemen and a cheap alternative to liquor. Episode 2 - ,,, discovers ancient Egyptian music and what the Dutch think of British pubs. Episode 3 - ,,, samples the archives and enjoys some Marabut music and a jolly Japanese ditty. episodes guide www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vczg2/episodes/guide |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Oct 24 - 09:35 AM Thank you, Freddy. The two Attenborough programmes are far more useful than all my clips! I think the Margaret Barry concert was at the Bedford Arms, which we used to visit when my son lived in Balham. There are two editions of David Attenborough on Desert Island Discs. Just search for them on Google; Saturday 10 March 1979 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mxny Roy Plomley's castaway is zoologist David Attenborough. Sunday 29 January 2012 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b8yy0 For the 70th anniversary edition of Desert Island Discs, Sir David Attenborough chooses his eight tracks, book and luxury item for the desert island. Presented by Kirsty Young. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 26 Oct 24 - 07:13 AM Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008, repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra this week and available on BBC Sounds for the next 29 days Freedom Song "When celebrated African-American contralto Marian Anderson was refused permission to sing at Washington's Constitution Hall in 1939, the result was a free concert at the Lincoln memorial. 75,000 people gathered to hear Anderson's solo recital. Tony Phillips tells the story of a remarkable event where the worlds of high art and civil rights were brought together. Produced at BBC Manchester by Ekene Akalawu. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2008." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 27 Oct 24 - 02:25 AM On BBC Radio 4 Extra Billy Bragg's Changing Times Episode 1 available on BBC Sounds for 29 days So Much To Protest About "1.. So Much To Protest About Billy Bragg's Changing Times Episode 1 of 3 These are fractious times. But there have been fractious times before. And of all the ways of looking at history, the instinctive reactions of artists, specifically musicians, to changing times, is one of the most fascinating. From Hamish Henderson to Tom Robinson, the Sex Pistols to U2, and more recently Radiohead and Stormzy, protest music has come a long way. In the first of three programme, Billy Bragg takes time to savour and share the stories of great moments where musicians were inspired by unfolding events to protest, to perform and to preach of an alternative way. Along the way there are contributions from authors, artists and academics who have seen technology transform the way in which people create and listen to protest songs. And there will be a chance to hear from those producing protest music in the era of Brexit, Trump and fake news. Featured programmes: ‘SONGLINES: Freedom Come All Ye’ [07/07/2009 BBC Radio Scotland] ‘WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?: The Golden Age of Protest Songs’ [28/09/2016 BBC Radio 2] ‘IS PROTEST MUSIC DEAD?’ [26/01/2016 BBC Radio 1 & BBC 1 Extra] Producer: Dan Quick Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2019." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 27 Oct 24 - 08:22 AM BBC Radio 6 Music Sunday 27 October 10:00 to 13:00 Cerys Matthews plays a wide spread of music, including an interesting selection of folk music. Rachel Newton and Mairearad Green perform Jolene in session! See playlist on programme website. As the clocks go back, join Cerys for an immersive listen celebrating the changing seasons and the Celtic New Year live from Glasgow. With guests Kelly MacDonald, Great British Menu winner and Michelin-starred chef Lorna McNee, and author Ian Rankin. Plus music and conversation from musicians from all over Scotland, including Rachel Newton, Mairearad Green, Pictish Trail and Jacob Alon. This programme features binaural sounds and may be best listened to with headphones for the full immersive experience. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 02 Nov 24 - 05:01 AM Previously broadcast o BBC Radio 4 in 2021 & 2023. Soul Music - The Parting Glass "The Parting Glass Soul Music "But since it falls unto my lot That I should rise And you should not I'll gently rise and softly call Goodnight and joy be to you all" The Parting Glass was written in Scotland and has criss-crossed the Irish Sea, becoming a popular song among Celtic peoples around the world. Folk singer Karine Polwart, talks of its fragile beauty as a song that can be a rousing drinking song at the end of the night but equally a poignant farewell at a funeral. For Alaskan Fire Chief Benjamin Fleagle, there was no more fitting song to honour his mentor and colleague at his Fire Department when he passed away over a decade ago. Alissa McCulloch 'clung' to the song when she heard the Irish singer Hozier sing a version of it at the start of the pandemic in March 2020. At the time, Alissa was mentally unwell at home in Australia and was admitted to hospital where she listened to the song over and over finding comfort in its timeless beauty. After Canada's worst mass shooting in its history, Pete MacDonald and his sisters recorded an acapella version of the song as a musical tribute to those who lost their lives. It's a tradition in Nova Scotia to sing in the kitchen at parties, wakes and celebrations and they wanted to pay their respects to the dead. Irish singer Finbar Furey has performed the song with his band the Fureys and talks about its appeal not only in Scotland and Ireland but throughout the Scots-Irish diaspora. Series about pieces of music with a powerful emotional impact Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Maggie Ayre First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2021." A lot of, if not all, previous episodes from the series Soul Music, are available to listen to on BBC Sounds. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 05 Nov 24 - 04:29 PM BBC Radio 6 Music Stories Another chance to hear a series assessing Bob Dylan's career at the end of three decades - 1969, 1979 and 1989 - and, with the help of those who have worked with and written about the enigmatic star, exploring the ways in which he re-invented himself at those times. Tonight! 1:00am Wednesday morning; Part 1 Bob Dylan - Changing Times - 1969 - Nashville Skyline. Having been out of the public eye for quite some time, Dylan returned with a new album, a new sound and new look in 1969. The album Nashville Skyline surprised many with its simple country-tinged songs. He appeared on Johnny Cash's TV show and chose to return to the concert stage not at Woodstock, but at the Isle of Wight Festival. Tonight! 2:00am Wednesday morning; Part 2 Bob Dylan - Changing Times - 1979 John Wilson looks back to 1979 when once again Bob Dylan marked the end of a decade by making some major changes in his life and career. He embraced Christianity, spent several months in Bible School and recorded a Gospel album, Slow Train Coming. Wednesday night 1:00am Thursday morning Part 3 Bob Dylan - Changing Times - 1989 John looks back at 1989 and the album Oh Mercy, which was seen as a comeback and was the first album Dylan had written entirely himself for four years. Recorded in an imposing house in New Orleans and produced by Daniel Lanois (who had been recommended to Dylan by Bono), it was a return to form. Wednesday night 2am Thursday morning Nashville Cats: The Making Of Blonde On Blonde In February 1966, Bob rolled in to Nashville to work on his seventh studio album. Following only partially successful sessions in New York, the decision had been taken to relocate to the Colombia label's Music Row studios. Bill Nighy presents the definitive story of what really went down on tape, and in the studio, during the recording of Bob Dylan's classic album Blonde On Blonde. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 06 Nov 24 - 12:48 PM Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 last Saturday Soul Music - America "America is Anita's all singing, all dancing number from the musical West Side Story. The Puerto Rican Sharks gang argue over whether America is a great place to live, an argument still being played out by migrants today. With contributions from young migrants to the US as well as an actress who has performed the song in a UK production and a Puerto Rican man who watched Rita Moreno performing the role growing up, and went on to study the musical as an academic in the United States. Including an interview with Rita Moreno originally broadcast on BBC 100 Women in Conversation in 2023 Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Sally Heaven" |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 06 Nov 24 - 02:48 PM I'll just tag on this Bernstein\West Side Story from the same series, 2016. Somewhere - 2023 Soul Music - Series 3 Leonard Bernstein's hit from West Side Story, that yearns for a better world, has come to have special significance for many. From Mary Wilson of the Supremes who found it a fitting tribute to Martin Luther King, to the mother who sings it at the end of long frustrating days with her beloved autistic son. Plus, Stephen Sondheim and Bernstein's daughter Nina discuss writing the lyric and the relatively bad critical response to it. Also taking part: Mary Dhonau Peter Dhonau Humphrey Burton Steve Nallon Clive Snelling Adrienne Snelling Graham Clarke Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076bpw |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 06 Nov 24 - 04:00 PM Polly Hitchcock - 2024 Radio nan Gàidheal NB 95% in Gaelic; some music occasionally in the background & two or three short clips. Availabe to about 25th November 2024.
google translation In 1951, an American woman came to live in the islands for a short time. It was Polly Hitchcock and her friends who brought a recording machine, interested in the music and heritage of the islands, and a desire to record some of the islanders. It was there that the doctor's house recorded Dalabrog[South Uist] for the most part - songs, pipe tunes, lead songs - and an album with some of the songs was published in 1952, after she returned to the States. Including Iain Ruadh, An Eòsag, Iain Peter, Archidsy and Keit MacDonald, Rena MacLean and plenty of others, let's say it's a great album to listen to today. But as Kenneagh Smith is learning in this program, there is plenty more that has been recorded in the archive of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington until now. Rona Lightfoot is the only one who is looking for herself and her parents in the records; and Cailean MacLean - the son of Dr. MacLean with whom Polly was making her recordings - speaks of him as his mother, Rena, used to remember him as Hitchcock, who herself played it for her. We will also hear from Polly Hitchcock's own family in America. A unique look at South Uist 70 years ago, and the attractiveness of an American singer who was housed there by the doctor in 1951. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00243r5 BBC Radio nan Gàidheal is a Scottish Gaelic language radio station owned and operated by BBC Scotland. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,Steve Shaw Date: 06 Nov 24 - 05:48 PM "America" from West Side Story has long been one of my desert island eight. "Somewhere" would also be in the eight except that I've had to opt for diversity in my choices... |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 10 Nov 24 - 05:31 PM A podcast! American Railroad: The Podcast A Limited Series Podcast from Silkroad and PRX Embark on "American Railroad," a five-episode podcast hosted by Rhiannon Giddens that seeks to right historical wrongs by highlighting the untold stories and unheard voices from the diverse communities that built America’s railway systems. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: DaveRo Date: 11 Nov 24 - 04:44 AM https://www.silkroad.org/american-railroad-podcast That page also tells us what PRX is. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 12 Nov 24 - 09:10 AM Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets - Isle of Man Poetry Extra - November 2024 Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets - Isle of Man [2019] Actor and writer Catherine Harvey returns to her family roots in the Isle of Man. She explores the voices of Manx dialect and language speakers, whose words are influenced by the Celts and Norsemen. Catherine concentrates her search in two areas - the north of the island where her family are from and the west, an area associated with the speaking of Manx Gaelic. She looks at the work of TE Brown, who is still thought of as the island’s national poet, and the writers who were part of the Manx Cultural Revival. In St Johns, she meets Dr Breesha Maddrell, Director of Culture Vannin, to discuss the influence of Manx Gaelic on the dialect of the island, before travelling north to talk to cultural activist, Bob Carswell, and members of The Michael Players – the only organisation in the world regularly performing plays in Manx dialect. Meanwhile, Catherine asks the current Manx Bard, Annie Kissack, if the dialect and language spoken on the island today has changed – and whether one of them has ultimately triumphed. A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2019. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024wwx The original series of 'Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets' 2018_2022: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3m9sh/episodes/guide A few clips are available permanently www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3m9sh/clips Randomly a programme gets repeated as part of the series Poetry Extra. They might come up with a search for "Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets""Poetry Extra"site:bbc.co.uk |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 20 Nov 24 - 09:56 AM BBC Sounds Radio 4 Extra The Gospel Truth 18 November Alvin Hall investigates the commercialism in gospel music. He looks at Sam Cooke and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Tomorrow he looks at the career of Aretha Franklin. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 20 Nov 24 - 02:57 PM Tonight! 9:00pm 20 November BBC Radio 2 Folk Show Gary Innes and Rabbie Burns' violin This week, Gary Innes from Mànran talks about their new sound and the plan to put Rabbie Burns' personal violin on stage in Glasgow and New York. Plus the usual blend of classic tracks, exciting new releases and news from the folk world. I remember seeing a neglected instrument with broken strings on display at the cottage where Robert Burns was born! Could that be the one? Saturday 14 Dec 2024 02:00 - I assume that's on Saturday night after midnight. But you don't have to stay up late, it's repeated in its usual slot at 21:00 Wednesday 18 Dec 2024 Festive fireside folk. Warming seasonal sounds from the folk and acoustic world. The Unthanks lead us into a winter fantasia that includes two Sheffield pub carols, a snapshot of Christmas in prison, and a pre-dawn Welsh plygain song. Fisherman's Friends, naturally, see some ships, and the Tannahill Weavers provide a hogmanay essential. Steeleye Span pay tribute to the king of birds, and Paul Brady and Andy Irvine sing a classic song set on a Christmas morning. We hear a poem read by John Tams and a song recorded by Sufjan Stevens as a Christmas gift to his family. The Chieftains and Elvis Costello paint a picture of Boxing Day excess that some might recognise... |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 23 Nov 24 - 04:39 AM Available for the next 30 days The Musical Human by Michael Spitzer (Omnibus) "Professor Michael Spitzer brings together archaeological, sociological and historical observations - along with theories from biologists and musicologists - to tell the story of what his sub-title boldly claims to be A History of Life on Earth. Spitzer gained his degree at Merton, Oxford, and then his PhD at Southampton. He is Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool. Previously he taught for 20 years at Durham University. An accomplished pianist, Spitzer is a world-leading authority on Beethoven, but he also writes widely on the philosophy and psychology of music. Omnibus of five parts read by Simon McBurney. Abridged and produced by Jill Waters. A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2021." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 23 Nov 24 - 04:47 AM Available from tomorrow morning (the individual episodes are available now) Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay (Omnibus) "Jackie Kay reflects on her love of blues singer Bessie Smith. She explores the life of the Empress of the Blues and considers the effect the icon had on her as she grew up as a black girl adopted by white parents. Orphaned by the age of nine, Bessie Smith sang on the street to support her siblings and was swept into travelling shows as a young woman. Facing extreme racial prejudice, she brawled under the influence of bathtub gin and had tumultuous love affairs with men and women. She also sold hundreds of thousands of records and became a genuine superstar. Mixing biography, fiction, music and memoir, Jackie Kay remembers the electric thrill of identification when, as a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, she was first heard the music of the Empres Written and read by Jackie Kay. Omnibus of five episodes abridged by Rosemary Goring. With Adjoa Andoh From 2016 to 2021, Jackie Kay was the Makar - Scotland's poet laureate. Producer: Eilidh McCreadie First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2021." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 Nov 24 - 11:58 PM Amapiano: The sound of South Africa BBC World Service The Documentary Podcast 21 November 2024 Available indefinitely South African DJ Legendary Crisp, charts the rise of the homegrown dance music genre Amapiano. She finds out where the hypnotising, jazzy, soulful sound emerged from, what it means culturally, and how it became South Africa's signature music genre of the 2020s. Radio Producer Tim Moorhouse travels to Johannesburg to meet Legendary Crisp and find out about Amapiano's cultural importance. Featuring contributions from Boohle, Josiah De Disciple, Lula Obiba, Madzadza Miya, Nimrod Pitso, Tman Xpress, Felo Le Tee, Chr B, Nkosazana Daughter, Rosey Gold and O.L. Shabba. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Nov 24 - 09:55 AM BBC Radio 3 Music Planet 21:30 23 November 2024 The Joy 23 Nov 2024 Available for 29 days Lopa Khotari explores the rich musical traditions of South Africa with a special live session from the Zulu a cappella quintet The Joy, fresh off their European tour following the release of a self-titled debut album earlier this year. 21:30 30 November 2024 Aidan O’Rourke’s Return Journey Kathryn Tickell with the finest in roots-based music. Plus, Scottish fiddle player Aidan O’Rourke shares two tracks: one he met on his travels, and one that reminds him of home. 21:30 14 December 2024 Mountain music Get your hiking boots on! In the week of the annual International Mountain Day, Kathryn Tickell takes in some high-altitude selections from around the globe. 21:30 21 December 2024 Music Planet at Christmas The best roots-based music from across the world. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 27 Nov 24 - 02:46 AM Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and available for over a year Ella In Berlin "Jazz singers Cleveland Watkiss and Dame Cleo Laine listen to Ella Fitzgerald's Mac the Knife, when she forgot the words in Berlin on 13 February 1960, and then have a go themselves. For post-war Germany jazz, which had been banned under Hitler, was the music of freedom. When Norman Granz first brought his Jazz at the Philharmonic tours to Europe in the 1950s, Germans flocked to the concerts and Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald were soon firm favourites. In February 1960, the German part of the tour opened in Berlin. Mac the Knife, from Brecht's Threepenny Opera, had been a number one for Bobby Darin for nine weeks the previous year, and Ella's friend Louis Armstrong had a hit with it in 1956. But Ella had never sung it. As a tribute to the people of Berlin, she decided she would. She did, but not the version they knew. Yet it was this improvisation that would win her two Grammy awards. Cleveland Watkiss, for whom Ella Fitzgerald has always been an inspiration, explores her virtuoso improvisation and scat-singing, in the company of another virtuoso performer, Dame Cleo Laine. They hear from people who were there that night in the Deutschlandhalle, including tour manager, Fritz Rau, pianist Paul Smith and guitarist Jim Hall, and from the author of a cultural biography of Ella Fitzgerald, Judith Tick. Award-winning Cleveland Watkiss has a life-long passion for Cleo Laine and finally had the opportunity to meet - and sing with - her in the course of making this programme! Producer: Marya Burgess First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013" |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,jOhn Date: 30 Nov 24 - 03:14 PM Documentry about Shane McGowan on radio 4 now |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 30 Nov 24 - 03:42 PM Thank you, jOhn. BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4 Shane MacGowan: The Old Main Drag - Available on BBC Sounds A year has passed since the world lost one of its great songwriters. Journalist and author Sean O’Hagan explores the lyrical genius of Shane MacGowan, presenting him as a voice of the Irish diaspora. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 05 Dec 24 - 03:37 PM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe 9:00 Wednesday then BBC Sounds 4 December Ralph McTell - then and now 29 days left to listen This week, much-loved songwriter and guitarist Ralph McTell joins Mark, the day after Ralph turned 80. Mark looks back at Ralph's early days on stage and on the BBC. There's also a chance to hear Ralph's newest work. 11 December Saturday 14 December 02:00 Festive fireside folk Available for 39 days Mark plays O Tannenbaum by The Unthanks to lead us into a winter wonderland. The show also includes two Sheffield pub carols, a snapshot of Christmas in prison, and a pre-dawn Welsh plygain song. Paul Brady and Andy Irvine sing a classic song set on a Christmas morning. Mark also hears a poem read by John Tams. 8 January Shaun Keaveny sits in |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Dec 24 - 03:49 PM Anna Massie Travelling Folk Radio Scotland 20.00 Thursday 7 November Allan Henderson sits in. 1 day left to listen Orcadian fiddler Graham Rorie joins Allan in his inaugural year as artistic director for the Scots Fiddle Festival. 14 November Ryan Young in Concert from the Rudolstadt Festival in Germany. 8 days left to listen Anna Massie brings the highlights from Germany's largest folk festival, Rudolstadt, featuring a live concert from Ryan Young with Owen Sinclair on guitar. 21 November Malachy Tallack: That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz. 15 days left to listen Anna presents the best of folk and roots including a live interview with Shetland author and singer-songwriter Malachy Tallack. 28 November Scotia Folk including a dive into the musical history of the Scotia Bar, Glasgow's oldest pub. 22 days left to listen In the 60s and 70s, you could've rubbed glasses in the Scotia with such folky legends as Robin Hall & Jimmie MacGregor, Hamish Imlach, The Dubliners, The Humblebums, Danny Kyle, Christy Moore and many more. Anna meets Scotia bar regular, singer Alan Meikle, for a pint and a blether about the pub’s colourful musical past. 05 Dec 2024 Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook & Alice Marra. Available for 29 days Anna has news of Phil Cunningham's upcoming Christmas Songbook tour - a seasonal favourite featuring a star-studded lineup of some of the finest musicians on the Scottish folk scene. This year includes the inimitable Eddi Reader, Scottish songstress Karen Matheson OBE, celebrated multi-instrumentalist John McCusker, Orcadian roots singer and guitarist Kris Drever, guitar virtuoso Ian Carr and double bassist Kevin McGuire. Michael Marra’s contribution to culture is being celebrated in Dundee this Dececmber via screenings of his legendary High Sobriety concert at the Bonar Hall, recorded in 2000. 24 years later, this newly re-edited and restored version brings to life the magic of the Bard o’ Lochee’s captivating presence, a rare opportunity to experience the concert that was recorded for his High Sobriety live album. Michael's daughter, Alice Marra, joins Anna to chat about her father's incredible legacy. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Dec 24 - 04:13 PM BBC Radio Scotland at Christmas highlights include Who’s that Girl?, marking the 70th birthday of Annie Lennox on Christmas Day. Grant Stott explores her back catalogue, featuring music from The Tourists, Eurythmics and her solo records, plus archive interviews. In Capercaillie at 40, Gary Innes interviews band members about their memories and highlights from the last four decades, finding out why they are still so beloved across the world. Michelle McManus hosts Radio Scotland's Christmas Concert, an hour packed with festive songs and cheer. Michelle's joined by both The Glasgow Youth Choir and Rock Choir for some of the season’s favourite songs. Anna Massie presents Travelling Folk's Boxing Day Ceilidh. BBC ALBA is set to bring together some of trad music’s biggest names to celebrate Hogmanay 2024 for the annual live event, Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire. Scottish supergroup, Mànran, along with other well-known trad music acts including Royal National Mòd 2024 gold-medallist, Alice MacMillan, have been announced in the line-up at this year’s event, broadcasting from Nairn Community and Arts Centre in the Highlands. The iconic Hogmanay show will be broadcast live on BBC ALBA and worldwide on Radio nan Gàidheal, with Cathy MacDonald and Niall Iain Macdonald hosting the cèilidh. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Dec 24 - 04:24 PM Other Voices Cardigan with Huw Stephens BBC Two Wales and BBC iPlayer, 21 December 10.55pm Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield takes to the stage at the Other Voices festival in Cardigan, performing some of the band’s well-known tracks in a rare solo acoustic set, and singing in Welsh for the very first time. In this special hour-long programme, presenter Huw Stephens shares his highlights from the festival, including performances from soulful Canadian singer songwriter Charlotte Day Wilson, performance powerhouse Nadine Shah, sublime vocalist Victor Ray, acclaimed Merseyside singer songwriter Bill Ryder-Jones, Welsh Music Prize winner Georgia Ruth and - with a debut album tipped as one of 2024’s best - Fabiana Palladino. As part of the programme, Huw also sits down to talk with some of the headline acts from the weekend, including special interviews with James Dean Bradfield and Nadine Shah. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST Date: 09 Dec 24 - 08:49 AM The first episode of a 10 part series started today on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. A Cause for Caroling "1. A Carol's a Carol, to Begin With A Cause for Caroling Choral conductor and scholar Jeremy Summerly tells the story of the Christmas carol in Britain in this ten-part series. He begins by trying to capture something of the caroling traditions of today and then heads back into the misty caroling past discovering what he believes is the first carol in the English language. The Christmas carol is as popular now as it was when carolers celebrated the birth of Edward III in 1312. Back then the carol was a generic term for a song with its roots in dance form. Nowadays only the strictest scholar would quibble with the fact that a carol is a Christmas song. But the journey the carol has taken is unique in music history because each shift in the story has been preserved in the carols that we sing today. Go to a carol concert now and you're likely to hear folk, medieval, mid-Victorian and modern music all happily combined. It's hard to imagine that happening in any other situation. Jeremy Summerly follows the carol journey through the Golden age of the Medieval carol into the troubled period of Reformation and puritanism, along the byways of the 17th and 18th century waits and gallery musicians and in to the sudden explosion of interest in the carol in the 19th century. It's a story that sees the carol veer between the sacred and secular even before there was any understanding of those terms.. Jeremy traces the folk carol in and out of church grounds, the carol hymn, the fuguing carol and the many other off-shoots, some of which survive to this day and many others which languish unloved but ready for re-discovery. It's a journey full of song describing the history of a people who needed expression for seasonal joy in the coldest, hardest time of the year. And however efficient the heating system may be, the carol still generates warmth. Much of that is to do with the positive nostalgia of this music. The series title is taken from a Thomas Hardy poem in which he ponders of a Darkling Thrush why it should chose to sing - 'so little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound' - is the question asked. This series is an attempt to answer why carols remain so popular and familiar to so many. Jeremy brings the series up to date with the story of the famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast by the BBC since the 1920s but born originally in Truro. It's a service that commands a worldwide audience measured in millions, but as Jeremy concludes it has left an imbalance in the appreciation of our caroling tradition, a tradition that has always had one foot in the pub and another in the choir stalls. Producer: Tom Alban" |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 11 Dec 24 - 01:30 PM BBC Radio 3 Sunday 01 December 2024 Carols Across the Country Available for 19 days A celebration of Christmas music and Advent traditions 06:30 As Advent dawns, we begin our seasonal journey live from Martin Mere Wetland Centre 09:00 Local traditions and carols from Cannon Hall, Barnsley with Grimethorpe Colliery Band 11:00 Carols connected to Cornwall from St Michael's Mount 13:00 Scottish carols at Glenluig Hall in the Highlands 14:45 The legacy of Radio 3's Advent carol service 15:00 A service for Advent live from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge 16:30 A selection of poems from the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy, Co Derry 18:00 Hannah French and Catrin Finch in All Saints church, Oystermouth near Swansea Bay 19:30-20:45 Words and music celebrating Advent and Christmas traditions from around the UK BBC Radio 3 Sunday 15 December 2024 Christmas Around Europe 10 hours A day-long festival of Christmas music and singing from across Europe in the European Broadcasting Union’s ever-popular annual Christmas music day. 1200 noon Saarbrücken, Germany. The German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. 1.00pm Barcelona, Spain. Christmas music from 16th and 17th Century Spain by Joan Cererols, Miquel López and Tomás Luis de Victoria/ 2.00pm Prague, Czech Republic. Baroque and Classical chamber music and some Czech traditional music for Christmas played by members of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra' 3.00pm Copenhagen, Denmark. Christmas choral music by Poulenc and Villette and Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols at the Garrison Church, Copenhagen. 4.00pm Vilnius, Lithuania. The Baltic Way String Quartet perform music by Peteris Vasks, Arvo Pärt, Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis and Teisutis Makacinas. 5.00pm Munich, Germany. Respighi's Lauda per la Natività del Signore and arrangements of traditional Sicilian Christmas carols from ‘Canti Religiosi del popolo siciliano. 6.00pm Cologne, Germany. Christmas jazz concert with Lynne Fiddmont and the WDR Big Band. 7.00pm Dresden, Germany. The Dresden Chamber Choir perform works by composers including Michael Praetorius, Eccard , Mendelssohn, Brahms and Arvo Pärt. 8.00pm Helsinki, Finland. Emma Salokoski sings traditional seasonal Finnish folk music with the Ilmiliekki Quartet at the Kallio Church, Helsinki. 9.00pm Reykjavik, Iceland. Hallgrím's Church Choir and the Brák Baroque Ensemble perform choral and orchestral music. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 12 Dec 24 - 08:45 AM Here are a couple of Christmassy programmes available on Sounds Sing Christmas - 2004 Archive on 4 Christmas Day 1957; the BBC made a ground-breaking hour-long live broadcast, transmitting Christmas songs from around the British Isles. Texan folklorist and broadcaster Alan Lomax was the host. ,,,ancient carols, folk songs, calypso, West African music, dixieland, skiffle, children's carols and glees. This musical time capsule gathers the memories of those involved to recapture the flavour of this pioneering BBC broadcast. Producer: Jolyon Jenkins www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076ppm Fairytale of New York - Dec 2015 Soul Music James Fearnley, pianist with The Pogues recounts how the song started off as a transatlantic love story between an Irish seafarer missing his girl at Christmas before becoming the bittersweet reminiscences of the Irish immigrant down on his luck in the Big Apple & stories about how the song has touched others. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s9d1h |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 12 Dec 24 - 12:20 PM BBC Sounds Radio 3 The Essay Dig Where You Stand 5 episodes June 2024 The Arnisdale Fiddler and the Fairy Musician Allan Henderson was taught by the great fiddler Aonghas Grant. Aonghas gave Allan the tune 'Dalshangie' and shared the story of the Arnisdale fiddler, Neil Campbell, who was on his way home from playing at a wedding in Knoydart and chanced upon a fairy. The fairy admired his playing and gave him an enchanted bow. This tune is said to have come from Neil and his enchanted bow. Allan visits Arnisdale to share the story of the tune and play it in the place it was born. Death in the Yarrow Valley The 'Dowie Dens o' Yarrow' is a border ballad collected by Walter Scott and published in his 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' in 1802. Singer and ethnologist Lori Watson has unearthed an alternative version of the ballad which was sung by Margaret Laidlaw, the mother of the writer James Hogg. Lori explains why this version of the tragic song offers more meaning for her as she stands under the James Hogg statue in the Yarrow Valley. Sowing Oats in Ceredigion Singer Owen Shiers lives in Ceredigion in west Wales where he has found himself on a mission to save the ancient Welsh black oat from extinction. During his research on the crop, he discovered the work of farmer poet Isgarn. Born in 1887, he was a chronicler of working the land. Owen has set his poem 'Y Medelwr' - The Reaperman - to music and discusses its particular relevance to connecting with the land in 21st-century Wales. Larking About in the Fields of Cornwall 'The Lark in the Morning' is an English folk song which has been sung by many artists over the years. However, singer Angeline Morrison - with the help of Merv Davey - has discovered a different version which was collected at the Falcon Inn in St Mawgan in the 1890s known simply as 'The Lark'. Angeline shares the story of the song and brings it back to life in the place it was found. Pickin' Tatties near Arbroath Folklorist and singer Steve Byrne sets out the concept of 'Dig Where You Stand' using an example from his home town of Arbroath on the East Coast of Scotland. Whilst digitising archive tapes from the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh, he came across the songs of Mabel Skelton recorded by Hamish Henderson in the mid 1980s. The song 'Pickin' Tatties' struck a chord and resulted in Steve taking it back to the town and teaching it to school children. He takes us to the spot where the song was born and discusses the cultural confidence that comes from connecting local people with their own traditions. And how this concept has been utilised in other parts of the world. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 12 Dec 24 - 07:06 PM BBC Radio 3 Essential Classics weekdays in December - at 10.30am Essential Carols Radio 3's specialist seasonal series of Essential Carols launches - each day, a range of musicians, actors and writers, including Bryn Terfel, Errollyn Wallen, Charlotte Ritchie, Reverend Richard Coles, Elim Chan, and Dr Sian Williams will introduce their favourite carol, sharing their personal anecdotes. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Dec 24 - 01:36 AM BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship Carols for the Christ Child 8:10am Sunday 1 December Carols for the Christ Child 17 days left to listen 8 December Carols for the Christ Child : ‘Fel yr Wyt’ / ‘As you are’ – the Welsh Plygain Carol Tradition 24 days left to listen On this Second Sunday in Advent, Sunday Worship comes from St Garmon’s Church, nestled in the Ceiriog Valley in the North-East of Wales. Priest, composer and musician Rev. Dr Cass Meurig Thomas, and Welsh poet and musician Gwyneth Glyn explore the sound, poetry and spirituality of the unique Welsh Plygain carol tradition. We hear a feast of archive recordings, as well live performances at St Garmon’s by Arfon Gwilym, Sioned Webb and Siân James, individuals for whom the Plygain tradition forms an important part of their lives. They also share some of the history of this unique tradition, as well as personal memories of attending the Plygain services across the years. 15 December Carols for the Christ Child: Village Carols As Christmas approaches and the sound of carolling is heard in churches around the country, in the pubs and band halls in the villages around Sheffield and North Derbyshire, the sound is somewhat different. Hundreds flock to the local boozer to join their voices in song, in anticipation of Christmas. But the tunes and texts are unique to this tradition and, outside the local area, most people wouldn't recognise the carols being sung. 22 December “Carols for the Christ Child” ends this Fourth Sunday of Advent with a service from Fisherwick Presbyterian Church in Belfast with the Chapel Choir of Methodist College, Belfast. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Dec 24 - 01:59 AM BBC Radio 4 Extra A Cause for Carolling Choral conductor and scholar Jeremy Summerly traces the origins and traditions of the Christmas carol in Britain 9 December-13 December Episodes 1-5 25 days left to listen 16 December-20 December 09:30 Episodes 6-10 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 15 Dec 24 - 07:01 AM BBC Radio 4 Sunday 15 December Sunday Worship Carols for the Christ Child: Village Carols Available for 29 days As Christmas approaches and the sound of carolling is heard in churches around the country, in the pubs and band halls in the villages around Sheffield and North Derbyshire, the sound is somewhat different. Includes Ian Russell talking at the Blue Boar in Worrall. Star of Bethlehem Sung by The Dungworth Singers Led by Jon Boden While Shepherds Watched Tune: Lyngham Recorded at The Plough, Bradfield Sweet Chiming Bells Kate Rusby A Song for a Time Sung by Paul Horton at Dungworth Village Hall Sweet Chiming Bells Sung by the Carollers from the Blue Ball Inn, Worral While Shepherds Watched Tune: Liverpool The Melrose Quartet Mortals Awake with Angels Join Tune: Mount Zion Recorded at Dungworth Village Hall Reapers Recorded at Dungworth Village Hall The Holly and the Ivy The Melrose Quartet Hark, Hark! What news those angels bring? Tune: Oughtibridge Recorded at The Cock Inn, Oughtibridge Sing all ye people of the earth today Tune: Stannington Recorded at The Cock Inn, Oughtibridge While Shepherds Watched Tune: Old Foster Sung by The Dungworth Singers Led by Jon Boden Awake, Arise Good Christians Kate Rusby Will your anchor hold? Sung by The Dungworth Singers and Carollers at Dungworth Village Hall Led by Jon Boden While Shepherds Watched Tune: Lyngham Jon Boden A Merry Christmas (We singers make bold) Recorded at Dungworth Village Hall An interesting programme! A good selection of carols mostly recorded at a variety of venues around Sheffield. 38 minutes, so not many complete performances. But no Coope Boyes and Simpson! Their successors Narthen perform on Zoom on Tuesday 17 December. Tickets from Live to your Living Room. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 16 Dec 24 - 04:11 PM BBC Radio 6 Sunday 10:00am 22 December 2024 Cerys Matthews Happy Christmas! Cerys gets in the festive spirit with a Santa's sack full of Christmas records. Orchestra Mambo International play live in session, Bill Bailey drops by for a chat and a mince pie, plus Sarah Clegg shares stories of lesser-known Christmas traditions and Cerys opens the final door in the musical advent calendar with jazz bandleader Giacomo Smith! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 16 Dec 24 - 04:35 PM BBC Radio Cornwall Special; 9:30am Monday 23 December A special Cornish Christmas We join the farming community for a special carol service from the Primestock Show in Truro. We have carols, readings and Christmas songs from Carclaze Community Primary School and Truro Cathedral Choral scholars. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 17 Dec 24 - 05:51 AM St Just in Midwinter - 2022 Open Country 8:15 In the heart of the town is the "plen-an-gwari", one of the last of the Cornish medieval amphitheatres built to host a sequence of religious mystery plays, the Ordinalia. Helen meets Graham Jobbins, Mary Ann Bloomfield and Isobel Bloomfield, the family playing a central part in ensuring the tradition continues. 19:15 local Carols https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9gz The Village Carol Tradition - 2017 Professor Ian Russell tells us about a carolling tradition that is upheld in around 30 villages in South Yorkshire and the Derbyshire Peak. 12 minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05rsqgs While Shepherds Watched - Dec 2023 : The hidden world of the South Yorkshire village carol sings Sunday Feature Elizabeth Alker sets out in search of lost carols, a thriving and binding social phenomenon, speaking with Dr. Russell, local punters for whom these carols serve an important social function and folk musicians like Kate Rusby, brought up on the pub carolling tradition and one of the vast array of musicians who are enabling this hidden tradition to flourish. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001thbn |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 17 Dec 24 - 11:25 AM BBC Radio Shropshire seem to have asked Genevieve back to do a one-off one hour festive programme : Genevieve Tudor's Folk Monday 23/12/2024 18:00 GMT repeated Wednesday 25/12/2024 13:00 GMT Genevieve has the finest selection of festive folk music from across the county. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k7c2vw If you want more, Genevieve's MixCloud podcasts for December have all been Christmassy : www.mixcloud.com/Genevieve_Tudor/ |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Beer Date: 17 Dec 24 - 07:41 PM Here is a web site I use a lot. https://radio.garden/settings/introduction |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 19 Dec 24 - 02:32 PM Saturday 21 December BBC Radio 5:00pm Radio 3 This Classical Life Jess Gillam is joined by Jon Boden. 6:15pm Radio 4 Loose Ends including Barb Jungr 8:00pm Radio Archive on 4: A Child's Christmas Cerys Mathews explores children's tales. 9.30pm Radio 3 Music Planet at Christmas including Columbian act Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto. Sunday 22 December 10:00am Radio 6 Cerys Matthews 7:15pm Radio 4 The Horse at the Door; British folk tradition of mummers. Monday 23 December 11:45am (Daily) Radio 4 The Dead of Winter 1/5 Lesser-known Christmas traditions. 1:00am ie Monday evening after midnight Radio 6 Music Four hours devoted to Joni Mitchell. 1:00 BBC sessions from 1968 and 1972; 2:00 Live at TV Centre 1970; 3:00 Johnny Walker's Long Players Blue 4:00 The Joni Mitchell Playlist |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 19 Dec 24 - 08:31 PM 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 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Dec 24 - 04:32 PM BBC Radio 4 06:30 Saturday 21 December Farming Today In the final five minutes; And carols - in the pub. It's a tradition that sprang up in Yorkshire in the nineteenth century, where people would go to the village pub and sing carols to the old tunes. All week we've been looking at the fortunes of rural pubs. And to celebrate Christmas, locals in the small market town of Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire are reviving village carols from Somerset, Wiltshire and Cornwall. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,Anne Lister sans cookie Date: 21 Dec 24 - 05:41 PM Radio 3 today - This Classical Life featured Jess Gillam with Jon Boden. All manner of treats including Watersons, Steeleye Span, a song he learnt from Will Noble, and Dungworth Carols. Still available on Sounds. |
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