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Thread #105652 Message #3701025
Posted By: GUEST
10-Apr-15 - 09:23 AM
Thread Name: Radio Ballads Anniversary Programme
Subject: RE: Radio Ballads Anniversary Programme
Two more lost radio ballad / operas:
http://research.culturalequity.org/home-radio.jsp
Stone of Tory, 1950. A full-scale ballad opera, broadcast from Dublin, featuring Irish rural singers and a cast from the Abbey Theatre.
Over the Sea to Skye, 1951. A ballad opera on the flight of Prince Charlie through the Highlands, with Ewan MacColl and a cast of Scots and Hebridean folk singers.