In the search for programmes in the Radio Ballads format - here are three excellent ones. ===== Sound the Jubilee http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2007/03/17/abolition_sound_the_jubilee_feature.shtml As part of the BBC Abolition season, Genevieve Tudor's Sunday Folk has a specially recorded radio version of the New Scorpion Band's Sound the Jubilee - music and readings from the history of slavery. ===== Ballad of the Miners' Strike http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r33b2 Date: Tue 02/Mar/10 22:30 Duration: 1hr In specially commissioned songs to mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the miners' strike, Radio 2 explores how lives were changed by the year-long dispute (1984-85). The Ballad of the Miners' Strike is a forthright and powerful exploration of contrasting human experiences. ===== The Lost Days of Steam http://www.themusicwellhome.co.uk/programme.aspx?path=LostDaysOfSteam A programme about various aspects of the railway industry featuring stories from railway workers and songs from folk singers who have an interest in railways past and present =====
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