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Posted By: GUEST,CJB
19-Apr-15 - 08:52 AM
Thread Name: Radio Ballads - documentaries
Subject: Radio Ballads - features ..
As further research into the Rradio Ballad genre - we are seeking the following recordings please ...
* Jim Lloyd 'Folk on 2' - Wednesday July 6th 1988
* Mark Radcliffe 'Folk Show' - The Great War
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lp2m9
Also does anyone know where the scripts are for the following - it may be possible to re-record them...
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.
Thank you -
CJB.