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Thread #7910   Message #3701180
Posted By: GUEST
11-Apr-15 - 09:20 AM
Thread Name: BBC Radio Ballads by Ewan MacColl/Chas. Parker
Subject: RE: BBC Radio Ballads by Ewan MacColl/Chas. Parker
The BBC's Genome db gives transmission details from Radio Times listings.


https://www.mediafire.com/folder/a8p6lbj1r653e/The_Lonesome_Train_Cantata

A modern version is at Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesNationalLincolnCantata-EarlRobinsonsLonesomeTrain

"The Old Chisholm Trail" - 1944 (only aired once in the UK)

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/pj8cq8cbccsdy/The_Old_Chisholm_Trail

"Romeo & Juliet" - 1966 (only aired once)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g6wtehxhb61ltzd/AACD0xLXNQV7_Q_F5U0XwNc6a?dl=0

"The Iron Box" - 1971 (only aired once)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m5maw23hgol7r3v/AAAZlPKgl16w7OOD-NYsFGBIa?dl=0

"Off Limits 2" (never aired)

https://soundcloud.com/jackaro/off-limits-2

"Sound The Jubilee" - 2007 (aired a few times, now online)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2007/03/17/abolition_sound_the_jubilee_feature.shtml

Lost Ballads still being sought include:

"The Man Who Went to War" - 1944. A "ballad opera" by Langston Hughes with folk music chosen by Alan Lomax. It starred Canada Lee, Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters, William Vesey, Josh White, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee.

"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.