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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 28 May 25 - 05:23 PM Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé - 20 May 2025 Front Row Talking about her 2025 North Carolina album What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow made with Justin Robinson. She talks of her time learning from Joe Thompson and the influence of Etta Baker. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cdh0 first item ~13 min |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 25 May 25 - 05:51 PM BBC Radio 3 21:45 Music Planet 31 May 2025 Peggy Seeger’s Return Journey Lopa Kothari chooses tracks from her vast music collection, spanning from freshly-released Colombian cumbia from Houston-based band Son Bayoú, to Galician folk music with the new project from Carme López, Carmela. Plus, a special session track from Ghanean Fra Fra artist Florence Adooni with her band, recorded at the BBC’s Maida Vale earlier this month. And, for our Return Journey feature, American folk icon Peggy Seeger guides us through two of her favourite tracks - one for the road, and one that reminds her of home - ahead of embarking on her final-ever tour, celebrating more than 70 years of music and activism. 07 June 2025 Laura Wilkie & Ian Carr in session Kathryn Tickell presents a live session from Maida Vale featuring fiddle player Laura Wilkie and guitarist Ian Carr. Originally from Tain in the Highlands, Laura is a sought-after musician rooted in the Highland fiddle tradition, with influences ranging across a wide spectrum of genres. Ian Carr, an acclaimed English folk guitarist and composer, is known for his distinctive, innovative approach to traditional music. Together, they perform selections from Laura’s latest album, Vent, which draws inspiration from ancient waulking songs - traditional work songs sung by women in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland as they rhythmically beat tweed to soften and shrink it. Reimagined here as instrumental fiddle pieces, these melodies retain the songs’ original spirit of community, strength, humour, and shared knowledge. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 20 May 25 - 12:56 AM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show 9:00pm 21 May Martin Carthy completes a full circle Today is folk legend Martin Carthy's 84th birthday. It's also release day for his new album, which revisits the tracks of his classic 1965 debut. Martin and his daughter, Eliza Carthy, toast the moment and reflect on Martin's life and the music he's made in the intervening 60 years. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 May 25 - 07:32 PM May 2025 available for approx 28 days BBC Radio Ulster - The Ralph McLean Show Mike McCartney - A Box of Scaffold Ralph talks with Mike McCartney about A Box of Scaffold, a new deluxe box set that traces his time in the legendary Liverpool hit making satire group. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bzsv |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 May 25 - 07:20 PM 5 May 2025 available for approx 28 days BBC Radio Ulster - The Ralph McLean Show Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison Ralph remembers Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison with classic tracks and rare outtakes from the legendary live album originally released in 1968. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bs4m |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 May 25 - 03:12 AM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe 7 May Happy birthday, Christy Moore 23 days left to listen With requests and dedications for Irish legend, Christy Moore, who turns 80 today. 14 May 9:00pm An acoustic trip, with Filkin's Drift In 2023, Seth Bye and Chris Roberts hiked all 870 miles of the Wales Coast Path. They gave a concert on almost every night of the tour. The adventure has inspired a new album, Glan, and they perform music from the record on this week's Folk Show. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 May 25 - 04:30 AM BBC Radio 4 Front Row 12 May 2025 Available for over a year Suzanne Vega has just released her first album of all-new material for nearly a decade. "Flying With Angels" continues her folk-influenced sound and introduces influences of soul as well as a song in tribute to Bob Dylan's "I Want You". She performs in the studio with guitarist Gerry Leonard. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 13 May 25 - 03:44 AM Sorry ^^ missing\wrong links above in The Song Detectorists - 2025 should be 1 Norfolk www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br0n 2 Wakefield www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br4b |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 12 May 25 - 06:53 PM Folk: Where are all the Black British folk songs? Instrumental: Black British Trailblazers - April 2025 available to approx January 2026 A constant in centuries of storytelling, folk music is widely considered the sound of Britain’s past - but whose past are we talking about? Has the history of Black people in British folk has been overlooked? Exploring a genre previously felt not for her, Mia Thornton asks if culture can be owned? And if so, who decides what to protect? Angeline Morrison discusses re-storying British folk music, and reflects on a shocking accusation made after the release of her album The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of The Black British Experience. Musician and researcher Marie Bashiru challenges assumptions about folk instrumentation and traces the origins of the banjo back to West Africa. And broadcaster and music journalist Kevin Le Gendre examines how different cultural forms of folk music, like Calypso, have influenced and shaped the broader genre. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0krcb3s |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 11 May 25 - 07:28 PM Coming up this week The Song Detectorists - 2025 The Essay - Radio 3 Matthew Bannister travels across England to find out about the music discovered in County Record Offices and reimagined for the 21st Century by the folk musician and academic Nancy Kerr. Matthew Bannister has been the host of Folk On Foot, a podcast which explores folk music and its connection with landscape in the UK, since 2018 and has often wondered about where “folk music” comes from. When he heard about Nancy Kerr’s involvement in a new project, Music, Heritage, Place he wanted to know more. Researchers from Royal Holloway and Newcastle University have been collaborating on an AHRC funded project sending out researchers, the “song detectorists”, to sift through the archives held in County Record Offices across England looking for music. They’ve returned with musical gems that Nancy Kerr has arranged and the discoveries are offering new insights into the way that music was shared and enjoyed in the past outside of the places historians and musicologists have traditionally expected to find it. 1. Norfolk Matthew Bannister is in Norwich to visit the Norfolk County Record Office where researchers have found some remarkable manuscripts including an 18th century music book from a village band in Mileham and a ballad written by a woman ousted from her home in the 17th century. Nancy Kerr has made new musical arrangements for her band The Melrose Quartet. As dusk falls, Matthew visits the remains of the magnificent Hales Hall deep in the Norfolk countryside. We hear from Stephen Rose of Royal Holloway and Bridget Yates a local researcher and music performed by the Melrose Quartet: Nancy Kerr, James Fagan, and Jess and Richard Arrowsmith. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br4b 2. Wakefield Matthew Bannister visits Nostell Priory, a grand Palladian house just outside Wakefield, which was the home of Louisa Winn from about 1819. Louisa was an accomplished musician and transcriber who collected some of her favourite tunes in a book - including piano arrangements of Rossini operas and an intriguing French Canadian song that hints at global connections. In the grand saloon, Matthew meets Simon McCormack the house’s curator who shows him Louisa Winn’s piano and allows him to pluck a harp string. Andrew Frampton, a pianist and researcher at Newcastle University takes Matthew to the West Yorkshire Archive Service in Wakefield. to see Louisa’s music book and some of her sketches of Mont Blanc. Andrew plays some of her music, recorded especially at SJE Arts, and we hear from Nancy Kerr about her fascination with the song Danse Canadienne which is performed by the Melrose Quartet: Nancy Kerr, James Fagan, and Jess and Richard Arrowsmith. 3. Cornwall Matthew Bannister is in a pub near Redruth with the singer and Cornish music researcher Hilary Coleman. She tells him about the tradition of carol singing, especially amongst tin miners, which survives in Cornwall today. She and Matthew visit Kresen Kernow, to look at “Eleanor Morgan’s book”,one of the sources used by the Cornish carol collector Davies Gilbert for his carol collection which was published in 1822. The identity of Eleanor Morgan remains a tantalising mystery. Caro Lesemann-Elliot from Royal Holloway talks about Davies Gilbert’s failure to credit the people whose music he collected. There’s a version of one of the carols: Hark Hark, What News the Angels Bring that emerged in Australia. Tin miners from Cornwall emigrated to Australia in the 19th century taking their carols with them. Nancy Kerr brings the original Cornish and migrated Australian versions back together. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br26 4. Hampshire Matthew Bannister visits the village of Nether Wallop in Hampshire which was the home of Richard Pyle, a wool trader who collected music into a tune book that is kept at the Hampshire Archives in Winchester. He meets Sarah Lewin the archivist there who is also a musician with a group that reenacts historical music. Stephen Rose from Royal Holloway University explains why the tune book is so important demonstrating that a small English country village was musically connected to places far beyond its county borders. Nancy Kerr has created a set for her band the Melrose Quartet that explores the music in the book including a new version of what Richard Pyle calls Evening Hymn which is an arrangement of Tallis' Canon. New words draw on Nether Wallop’s location in the Test Valley, where Richard Adam’s novel Watership Down was set. The new version becomes Silverweed Hymn to Richard Pyle's canon. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br8q 5. Newcastle Matthew Bannister is allowed a very rare glimpse of Henry Atkinson’s tune book from 1695. He’s with Steph Carter and Kirsten Gibson from Newcastle University. The book is kept at the Northumberland Archives at the Woodhorn Museum on the site of an old coal mine in Ashington. Henry Atkinson was a hostman, a member of a cartel of businessmen in Newcastle who controlled the buying and selling of coal. He was also a musician and collected his favourite fiddle tunes handwritten in a small book. Although considered very precious now Steph and Kirsten tell Matthew that books like Henry Atkinson’s were quite common. Music making was a sociable activity and many more people were musically active far away from the big cultural centres of London and the University towns than has been previously understood. Music from the book has been arranged by Nancy Kerr and is performed by The Melrose Quartet: Nancy Kerr, James Fagan, and Jess and Richard Arrowsmith. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bsl6 "Kirsten Gibson, Professor of Early Modern Music and Culture at Newcastle University, says This project is vital for reframing our understanding of the musical lives of people beyond London and for telling new stories about music-making beyond the well-studied musical centres and with a broader range of people not studied before." “From the histories of sacred song, industry and global migration uncovered in Cornwall’s village carol collections, to a 17th-century coal merchant’s “bible” of classic Northumbrian fiddle tunes, across five counties and three centuries – we are sure listeners will hear something new in these musical gems”. Press Office Newcastle University |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 28 Apr 25 - 06:46 AM From Radio 4 Extra Compression versus Art Trevor Cox asks whether compression can detract from our enjoyment of recorded music. Does it matter that what we hear may not be the same as what the musicians first heard in the studio? How important is high quality reproduction? ++ Poetry Extra - Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets - Yorkshire Katie Edwards examines place and identity in her native county. Ever since she found herself mocked in academic circles for her broad South Yorkshire accent, Katie's made it her mission to celebrate her linguistic heritage. She travels round what was historically England's largest county discovering a huge range of dialect and dialect poetry. She meets with members of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, hears how dialect has evolved in different parts of Yorkshire, finds out what's been lost down the years and discovers a fresh passion for using Yorkshire dialect among several young poets in the region. From Ilkley Moor Bah Tat (Yorkshire's unofficial national anthem) via the industry and land that spawned much of the dialect, to poets using it as part of various types of social activism, Katie gets a real sense of a county in which dialect is still very much an important part of identity. Producer: Iain Mackness |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 Apr 25 - 05:16 AM BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Soho '65: Les Cousins at 60 18 days left to listen This week, Mark gets transported back to the legendary club Les Cousins in the company of Diana Matheou and journalist Jon Wilks. Les Cousins (known fondly as "The Cousins") was on Soho's Greek Street. After some false starts, it opened 60 years ago today: 16th April 1965. Diana and her husband, the late Andy Matheou, ran the club in the basement of his parents' restaurant. Thanks to Andy's instincts as a booker, and the club's all-night events, it became central to the swinging London folk scene of the mid sixties. Paul Simon considered it his 'home gig' in London. Jimi Hendrix played there, as did John Martyn, Nick Drake, Anne Briggs, Martin Carthy, Wizz Jones, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Sandy Denny, Jackson C. Frank, Al Stewart and Alexis Korner. Van Morrison appeared in the early hours and was paid just £3. Around England on St. George's Day 25 days left to listen Mark hops around an imaginary map of England, with songs and tunes for St. George's Day. 30 April 2025 21:00 Acoustic sounds, with Niall McCabe in session County Mayo songwriter Niall McCabe plays live, accompanied by John McCusker. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 Apr 25 - 12:32 AM BBC Sounds Heart and Stone 25 Feb 2025 Available for over a year Why do we feel connected to certain places? To certain landmarks, physical sites and imaginary stories? What does our love for city landscapes or the great outdoors say about who we are? These questions began swirling for Meg as a teenager, sat at the top of Old Oswestry Hillfort. And, nearly a decade later, she’s still captivated by them. From battles over development to innovative archaeology projects involving local residents, Heart and Stone visits two, very different hillforts. One in Oswestry, England, and the other on the outskirts of Cardiff. Can the help us understand our relationship with place and heritage? Do they inform our communities, and offer new perspectives on what we call home? Heart and Stone is an Overcoat Media production for BBC Sounds Audio Lab |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 27 Apr 25 - 11:08 PM BBC World Service The Documentary Podcast Heart and Soul: Our Sacred Harp 18 April 2025 Available now Sacred Harp pioneer and former punk frontman, Tim Eriksen, takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing, an American choral tradition experiencing a resurgence across the US and in Europe. All people and all faiths are welcome. As a new edition of the songbook approaches publication, Tim explores why this music is drawing more singers and how it is managing to remain inclusive despite increasing political polarisation in the wider culture. Sacred Harp is sung a cappella in four-part harmony, a non-performative music where everyone takes a turn to lead and groups gather anywhere from churches to community centres and pubs. But how have recent political divides affected the community and how can it continue to remain an inclusive space? |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Apr 25 - 04:45 AM BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends Clive Anderson is in Glasgow. 19 Apr 2025 Available for over a year With music from Skerryvore (13 minutes - You and I) and Mike McKenzie. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Apr 25 - 01:01 PM BBC plans to restrict BBC Sounds abroad have been delayed! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 18 Apr 25 - 09:01 AM Our Sacred Harp - April 2025 Heart and Soul - BBC World Service Sacred Harp pioneer and former punk frontman, Tim Eriksen, takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing – an American choral tradition experiencing a resurgence across the US and in Europe. All people and all faiths are welcome. As a new edition of the songbook approaches publication, Tim explores why this music is drawing more singers and how it’s managing to remain inclusive despite increasing political polarisation in the wider culture. Sacred Harp is sung a-cappella in four-part harmony - a non-performative music where everyone takes a turn to lead and groups gather anywhere from churches to community centers and pubs. Songs were first published in a book of psalms in Georgia in 1844 and in 2025 a new edition will publish a record number of compositions submitted by sacred harp singers from all over the world. For Tim Eriksen this is devotional music, but it will mean different things to different people - what’s special about it is the way it ‘transcends differences.’ Sociologist Laura Clawson tells us how the forbearers of the music stipulated that religion, and politics should not come into the ‘hollow square.’ Historically the Sacred Harp community has continued to sing and build bonds through chapters of political polarisation in the US. But how have recent political divides affected the community and how can it continue to remain an inclusive space? Producer: Sarah Cuddon A Falling Tree Production www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6vnp & see Shape Note or Sacred Harp thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=14533 FreddyHeadey |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 16 Apr 25 - 06:06 PM Thanks henryp. I found this link worked better for the 1hr 40 min Ruth Crawford Seeger programme. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0kxwx88 Music Featured: Little Waltz Five Songs to Poems by Carl Sandburg (1, Home Thoughts; 2, White Moon) Theme and Variations Selection from American Folk Songs for Children Diaphonic Suite No 2 for bassoon and cello Kaleidoscopic Changes on an Original Theme, Ending with a Fugue Diaphonic Suite No 3 for Flute Whirligig Preludes for Piano Caprice Sonata for Violin and Piano Trad: Prisoner Blues Music for Small Orchestra Marion Bauer: Four Piano Pieces Selection from 19 American Folk Songs for piano Three Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg Diaphonic Suite No 4 for oboe and violoncello Three Chants for Female Chorus String Quartet Diaphonic Suite No 1 for oboe Selection from Animal Folk Songs for Children Preludes for Piano Two Ricercare to poems by Hsi Tseng Tsiang Peggy Seeger: How I Long For Peace Selection from American Folk Songs for Christmas Andante for strings Trad: "New River Train” Trad: "Midnight Special" Trad: "Irene (Goodnight, Irene)" Charles Seeger: John Hardy Piano Study in Mixed Accents Suite No 1, for five wind instruments and piano Elizabeth Cotten: "Freight Train" Rissolty, Rossolty Piano Sonata Diaphonic Suite for two clarinets Piano Study in Mixed Accents (Version 3) Suite for Wind Quintet Five Canons, for piano Peggy Seeger: "Everything Changes" For full information about each of the hour long episodes start at episode one. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028k1t |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 16 Apr 25 - 11:27 AM BBC Radio3 Composer of the Week Ruth Crawford Seeger Released On: 14 March 2025 Available for over a year Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) had multiple lives. As Ruth, she was an aspiring poet and teacher, who longed to become a mother. Crawford the composer wrote some of the most daring pages of 20th-century American music, granting her a place among the group of the 'Ultra-Modernists'. And, as the matriarch of the Seeger dynasty, she collected and arranged countless pieces from treasures of the folk tradition. With Kate Molleson, discover the extraordinary life and work of a major American composer, in a story of creative experimentations, of family bonds, and most of all, of joy in music-making, accompanied by the memories of Crawford's daughter and folk legend, Peggy Seeger. For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028k1v |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Apr 25 - 05:11 AM BBC Radio Scotland Shetland Folk Festival Preview Available for 5 days Eva Runciman hears from the visiting acts making the trip to Shetland in May for the 43rd Shetland Folk Festival. BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Thursday 20:00 Anna Massie with the very best of folk and roots music from Scotland and beyond. 17 April 2025 Martin Green and Miwa Nagato-Apthorp 24 April A Shetland Music Special 01 May 2025 Mountain Music Travelling Folk Deirdre Graham with the very best of folk and roots music from Scotland and beyond. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Date: 10 Apr 25 - 04:15 PM but as far as I can see, (and the BBC refuse to eplain what is happening or why) a very limited ENGLISH range of stations will still be available- NO Scotland, NO Wales, NO Ulster NO Newcastle- no Cornwall- no Kent just the view (and the music) prescribed by London- do tell nme if I've got this wrong- the BBC will not |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 10 Apr 25 - 08:26 AM Why are some radio programmes and podcasts not available? Due to rights limitations, not all BBC content can be made available to international users. This includes BBC music radio stations as well as some podcasts. We endeavour to provide a comprehensive listening experience to our audience with hundreds of podcasts available. We will continually be adding more content. What does this mean for third party platforms that previously carried BBC podcasts and audio? These changes only impact BBC platforms, as BBC content will remain available on third-party platforms outside the UK. How can I search for specific audio content? You can search for specific audio content using keywords, titles or contributors in the search bar at the top of the BBC app or BBC.com website. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: DaveRo Date: 10 Apr 25 - 06:58 AM More, but not much more yet, about listening outsude the UK in this thread |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 10 Apr 25 - 05:43 AM The BBC page about loss of access to Sounds outside the UK If you live outside the UK, how you listen to BBC radio will change, starting from spring 2025. Instead of using BBC Sounds, you’ll be able to use a new service at BBC.com and on the BBC app. BBC Studios has launched these all-new audio environments, tailored to outside UK audiences. The BBC’s content will remain available on other international podcast platforms. International listeners will no longer be able to use the BBC Sounds app and website from spring 2025. You can find out more about these changes on the bbc.com website. Advice for UK Listeners travelling abroad For listeners who reside in the UK, you will still be able to use the BBC Sounds mobile app when you are abroad. Check our FAQ for further info: Can I use BBC Sounds when I travel outside the UK? Why are we making these changes? BBC Sounds is a UK licence fee funded service. To offer better value for our UK listeners, BBC Sounds will be repositioned and made available exclusively to UK audiences. BBC Studios is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC and is focused on bringing our trusted, world class journalism and storytelling to international audiences. This includes BBC audio content on bbc.com and the BBC app, which will be focused to international listeners. Support for listeners Outside the UK If you live outside of the UK and have a query regarding listening to BBC radio and audio content, please visit the support page at bbc.com where you can find help and contact their support team. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/listening-outside-the-uk/outside-uk-changes |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Date: 10 Apr 25 - 05:05 AM All online BBC listeners should note that from this Spring, BBC will be removing access to all stations for listeners outside UK EXCEPT Radios 123 and 4 and the World Service. So ALL regional stations Radio Ulster, and the National stations of Wales and Scotland will not be available via BBC Sounds. So this thread will soon be of use only to UK listeners or to non-UK (including Ireland) techies devious enough to find their way around this vandalism . It will mean the loss of the high proportion of traditional music broadcast by the BBC from Scotlansd, Wales, Northern Ireland and ALL the local UK stations |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 09 Apr 25 - 02:14 AM Thank you, Rain Dog. BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk 10 April 2025 20:00 In the Tradition Anna Massie presents In The Tradition, a concert recorded at Celtic Connections 2025 in Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall with a great line up of duos and trios, each breathing new life into traditional music. 03 Apr 2025 Available for 24 days Anna Massie explores the Bothy Ballads with Scott Gardiner on the anniversary of Joe Aitken's passing. Plus we hear about the Edinburgh International Harp Festival. 27 March 2025 17 days left to listen We hear the music born from an incredible collaboration of musicians, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart. Plus, we celebrate 30 years of Flook as Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen join us on the show to talk about their latest album, Sanju. 13 March 2025 3 days left to listen We hear Anna's chat with Canadian fiddle sensation Natalie MacMaster recorded at this year's Celtic Connections. She tells Anna about her trips to Scotland over the years and getting the family involved in performing. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 07 Apr 25 - 12:24 PM Here's hoping that you make it to dry land soon henryp. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 07 Apr 25 - 11:07 AM 09 April 2025 9:00pm BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Music for making and doing It's a productive episode this week, as Mark plays folk songs about making, building and crafting. Many folk songs are about the experience of making things, alone or together. Weaving, building, hedgelaying, boat building, instrument making and haymaking have all inspired countless songs. Jobs like mining, driving, sailing and farming are at the centre of many more. Mark rolls up his sleeves and digs into the archive. Tell him what you're up to! Me? Difficult days! Don't know if I'm sinking or swimming! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 29 Mar 25 - 08:25 PM BBC R4 29 March 18:15 Loose Ends Available now on BBC Sounds Michael Rosen, Barbara Flynn, Dylan Jones, Kemah Bob, Stuart Maconie. With music by the winner of Channel 4's talent show The Piano Brad Kella, who is about to tour with Take That's Gary Barlow and the folk singer and protest song writer Grace Petrie. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Mar 25 - 03:51 PM BBC Radio 4 19:15 23 March Illumination A Georgian Polyphonic Feast Available for over a year. Welcome to the feast! We’re invited to a traditional Georgian ‘Supra’ to immerse ourselves in the magic of Georgian polyphonic singing. For Paris-based singer Luna Silva, these songs bring her the comfort and sense of togetherness of her childhood circus home. Since first hearing the music as an ethno-musicology student in London, she has made several trips to the Georgian mountains to immerse herself in the musical tradition, and now teaches polyphonic singing to her French choir. She even took them with her to Lakhushdi. Now, the French choir has invited their Georgian hosts to attend their first Supra in Montreuil, Paris. In the pauses during the Supra, as people talk and eat, we hear from singers and diners what makes the Supra so important in Georgia. Luna and Levan also dissect the polyphonic singing style, as voices are added and removed to demonstrate how individual pitches and harmonies are brought together. They are layered over each other, surrounding the listener in a bath of sound which touches the soul. As the Supra draws to a close, everyone joins together to sing a song to life. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 23 Mar 25 - 06:28 AM BBC Radio4 Extra Poetry Extra: Wild Music "Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Wild Music, a collaboration between a poet and composer. Scottish poet and writer John Burnside received a CD of Solan Goose by musician and composer Erland Cooper. These "sonic postcards" of Erland's native Orkney are inspired by local dialect, birds, landscapes and the sea. For John Burnside, it reconnected him with nature in a profound way. The two meet for the first time on Orkney while Erland is working on the final album of his Orkney trilogy. Braving heavy rain and gale-force winds, Erland takes John to locations that inspire his work. Scattered across the Orkney islands are some of the UK’s best preserved neolithic monuments, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. John feels a direct connection to the stone-age communities who lived here 5000 years ago, and a sense that those people lived really close to the earth, the sea and the sky. We visit the mysterious Ring of Brodgar, the neolithic village of Skara Brae, a sacred cairn, and the Bay of Skale. John responds by composing five new poems. Sheltering from the storm, Erland and John entertain each other by swapping their favourite Orkney myths and legends - featuring seal people, a trip to faerie land and disappearing islands. These stories also weave their way into both artists' work. Producer; Victoria Ferran A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2019." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Mar 25 - 04:17 PM Wednesday 26 March 9:00pm BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe; Catching up with The Pogues! This week, Mark is joined by Spider Stacy and Jem Finer from The Pogues. They share memories of the late Shane MacGowan and the making of their 1985 classic, Rum Sodomy & The Lash. To mark the album's 40th anniversary, the band are touring with guest singers including Daragh Lynch, Nadine Shah and Lisa O'Neill. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,JoeG Date: 18 Mar 25 - 01:30 PM Add to Playlist is my favourite radio programme - I love the way they explain music theory in easily understandable ways |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 18 Mar 25 - 11:02 AM Wednesday 19 March 9:00pm BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe. Lisa and Gerry perform tracks from their new album, Hinterland. Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver, two of the most inventive musicians and voices in UK folk, play live in the Salford studio ahead of their appearance at the Manchester Folk Festival, which happens around the city 20th-22nd March. Plus an exclusive first play of new music by Kate Rusby and Irish tracks for St. Patrick's Day, which was on Monday. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: DaveRo Date: 15 Mar 25 - 09:07 AM Add to Playlist was a much more interesting programme than the title suggests. And the presenters were more knowlegeable than they tried to appear. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 Mar 25 - 03:50 AM Add to Playlist 14th March 2025 Concertina and melodeon player Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and composer and arranger Anne Dudley contribute to the next five tracks on the playlist. Alongside Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe, they take us on a journey from the elegant vocals of Amy Winehouse to a Japanese folk tune about hardworking fishermen. The five tracks in this week's playlist: Love is a Losing Game by Amy Winehouse Sarabande by Claude Debussy Lambada by Pinduca The Bristol Sailorman/Will the Waggoner by John Kirkpatrick (Cohen) Kaigara Bushi by Mitsune www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028v4s |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 Mar 25 - 07:57 AM https://mikehardingfolkshow.com/ Mike Harding Folk Show A complete archive of all his own post-BBC podcasts. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 08 Mar 25 - 02:32 PM BBC Radio 4 6.15pm Saturday 08 March Loose Ends. Repeat from 1 February 2025 Clive Anderson and guests plus music from the English folk star Sam Lee, who is Artist-in-residence for a year of environment-themed events - Earth Unwrapped - at Kings Place in London. Sam Lee sings Meeting is a Pleasant Place. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: DaveRo Date: 08 Mar 25 - 02:53 AM Upcoming changes for listening to BBC audio outside the UK "From Spring 2025". For all you in the southern hemisphere, that's soon. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 08 Mar 25 - 01:36 AM BBC Radio 2 9:00pm Wednesday 12 March The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Fire and Dust Mark speaks to Reg Meuross and Pete Townshend about Fire and Dust - The Woody Guthrie Story, Reg Meuross’s third song cycle, launched tonight. Another important chapter of impeccably researched story-telling has begun. “Reg’s terrific songs tell Woody’s life story with respect and affection, but also truth.“ Pete Townshend. More information on Bandcamp. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 05 Mar 25 - 01:43 PM BBC Radio 2 9:00pm 5 March Flying north for spring The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe With music by The Young'uns, Karine Polwart, Sandy Denny, Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Sam Shackleton, Simon & Garfunkel, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, and more. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 26 Feb 25 - 04:21 PM Only five days left to hear BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Final 2025 Clelland Shand, Noah Scott, Ellie Beaton, Miguel Girão, Roo Geddes, Laura Penman, Calum McIlroy Six young musicians compete in BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027kw5 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 26 Feb 25 - 02:00 AM BBC Radio 2 9:00pm 26 February The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe This week, songwriter Iona Lane talks about new songs inspired by Scottish islands and coasts. Iona's album, Swilkie, was written on the Isle of Eigg, Sanday in Orkney and the Knoydart peninsula, from where Iona chats to Mark. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 25 Feb 25 - 06:13 AM Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011, then BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2016 & then again at 00.30 today Sore Fingers "Eavesdrop on banjo mania in Stow-on-the-Wold. It’s like Billy Bunter with banjos. The unmistakeable sound of American Appalachia. In this town, Bluegrass enthusiasts pack up their banjos and fiddles for a week of fast and furious music which has become a fixture on the international Bluegrass calendar. Bluegrass is a relatively recent form of American folk music - made popular in the 30s and 40s by Bill Monroe. The music has its roots in the folk music of Ireland, Scotland and England - taken over with the early settlers and fused with other American influences. But it's made a return journey back across the Atlantic with burgeoning interest here in American Bluegrass and Old Time music. Every year since 1996 a Summer School and convention for Bluegrass enthusiasts - called Sore Fingers - takes place during the Easter vacation at Kingham Hill school in the Cotswolds. As the pupils depart for the holiday a new set of students arrives - some with moustaches, all with an instrument and, for five days, the Oxfordshire playing fields and quads echo to the sound of Kentucky. The instruments include banjo, fiddle, mandolin, Dobro and guitar. It's called Sore Fingers for a reason: the students and the tutors play all day and late into the night. The talent is prodigious - the fastest picking you're likely to hear this side of Pike County. Amongst the tutors are world class players flown in from America - including banjo player Tony Trischka, flat picker Jim Hurst and Dobro virtuoso Mike Witcher. Amongst the students there are grizzly beards from Doncaster who've been flat picking and claw hammering for fifty years, alongside teenage virtuosos - including 16 year old Edward Bennett from Cornwall, winner of the Clifftop, West Virginia Banjo competition. We eavesdrop on a week at Sore Fingers talking to the players about their lives outside and inside the Bluegrass camp: we hear about the history of the music, its revival in England and dip in to some of the classroom sessions. We hear from the Scouse sheet metal worker who gave it all up to make banjos; the couple who met in the fiddle tutor group and who've been together ever since and the carer sent to Sore Fingers by the council for a respite break who keeps coming back. All this and some fine, uplifting music. Producer: Lindsay Leonard" |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 Feb 25 - 04:39 AM BBC Radio 4 6.15pm Saturday 22 February Loose Ends Stuart Maconie is joined in Salford by Stuart Lee and Philippa Dunn. With music from Barb Jungr. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 04 Feb 25 - 04:07 AM On BBC Radio 4 Extra today at 10.30 Fantasy Festival - Eliza Carthy Folk musician Eliza Carthy joins presenter Verity Sharp to create and curate the festival of her wildest dreams. It's a chance for Eliza to set the festival's agenda, chose the guests, pick the acts, dictate the weather, the food and the ambience. It's a festival where anyone - dead or alive - can be summoned to perform, and nothing is unimaginable. Eliza outlines her dream festival which takes place at Robin Hood's Bay. Finnish folk musicians Värttinä, Italian folk group Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino and Dreadzone are on the bill alongside Freddie Mercury, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Joe Venuti, Professor Brian Cox and Abba. Everyone's there and everything's possible in Eliza's feel good festival. Producer: Rosie Boulton A Monty Funk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2016. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 30 Jan 25 - 04:59 PM BBC Radio 2 21:00 Wednesday 5 February The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe The great Irish band Altan are live in the studio. Their latest album, Donegal, was released in 2024. Plus another chance to hear live music from last week's trip to Celtic Connections in Glasgow. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 27 Jan 25 - 01:31 PM Big Al Whittle, I think this is the programme your sister might be referring to: Silver by Jonathan Smith On BBC Radio 4 Extra 01.00 Sunday 2nd February "When WE Henley, the one-legged Gloucestershire poet and eccentric, visited Edinburgh for an operation in 1874, he struck up an immediate and robust friendship with the more effete novelist RL Stevenson. It was a friendship that was to survive many storms - including Stevenson's thinly disguised portrait of Henley as Long John Silver in ‘Treasure Island’. Starring Bill Paterson and John Franklyn-Robbin. Written by Jonathan Smith. Robert Louis Stevenson .... Bill Paterson W E Henley .... John Franklyn-Robbins Fanny .... Maureen O'Brien Katherine .... Joanne Mackie Joseph Lister .... Bill Wallis Leslie Stephen .... Peter Copley Sister .... Eva Stuart Nurse .... Marcia King Lloyd .... John Bolton Director: Shaun McLoughlin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1989." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 27 Jan 25 - 09:15 AM Good story; couple of bits of singing : Tam O'Shanter. Towards the end of his life, on a farm in Dumfries, Robert Burns begins to write a poem that will become one of his famous works. Published in 1791, Tam O'Shanter describes the wayward exploits of a farmer which puts his very soul in peril. Starring Liam Brennan and Gerda Stevenson. Written by Catherine Czerkawska. Robert Burns .... Liam Brennan Jean Armour .... Gerda Stevenson Robbie/Helen MacTaggart .... Sheila Donald Tam O'Shanter/Duncan Graham .... Kern Falconer Willie Niven/Souter Johnnie .... Billy Boyd Anna .... Alyxis Daly Music played by Jo Miller, Steve Sutcliffe, Norman Chalmers and Mike Katz. Director: Hamish Wilson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1996. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027csp |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 27 Jan 25 - 08:15 AM Stevenson/WE Henley,,, I can only see this one but don't see it in the current schedules. Reconstructing Louis - 2016 At Vailima - his home in Western Samoa - Robert Louis Stevenson attempts to dispel some of the more romantic notions that have built up around him as he looks back over his life and the people who have meant most to him. These include his American wife Fanny, his stepson Lloyd, and the waspish literary critic WE Henley, now best remembered as the model for Treasure Island's most enduring character - Long John Silver. Written by John Sessions who stars as Robert Louis Stevenson. Fanny ... Phyllis Logan Thomas Stevenson.... Paul Young Maggie Stevenson .... Sheila Donald Belle Osbourne.... Nora Elwell-Sutton Lloyd Osbourne/Bob Stevenson...... Henry Ian Cuslck Young Louis/Young Lloyd .... James Quintal-Norrls WE Henley .... Michael MacKenzie www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0075z1g |
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