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David Attenborough's Global Mixtape - 2018
Music Planet
Sir David Attenborough first became nationally known as the presenter of BBC TV's Zoo Quest, a series based on expeditions to catch exotic animals for London Zoo. The programmes ran from 1954 to 1963, and in his spare time during the filming, Sir David made sound recordings of the local music.
In this Music Planet Mixtape, Sir David introduces some of his favourites. His picks include sparkling harp playing from Paraguay, the chanting of his team's luggage-carriers in New Guinea and the funeral gongs of the Dyak people in Borneo.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06vz9sk

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I Belong to Glazgoy - 2023
Isaac Hirshow, a virtuosic Russian Jewish synagogue cantor and composer, arrived in the Gorbals from Warsaw in 1922. He was one of thousands of Jewish immigrants who landed here, just south of the river Clyde, where Yiddish voices mingled with Gaelic and Irish airs, Lithuanian laments, and Italian arias.
Presenter: Dr Phil Alexander
Contributors: Harvey Kaplan, Eddie Binnie, Natasha Lange
Musicians: Valentina Montoya-Martinez (singer); Aref Ghorbani (singer and setar); Phil Alexander (piano and accordion); University of Glasgow Chapel Choir directed by Katy Lavinia Cooper
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n1x7

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Tamara Stefanovich, Martin Hayes - 2024
Music Matters - Radio 3
Kate Molleson meets Irish fiddler Martin Hayes who shares his thoughts on the meaning of tradition, putting traditional music on the concert platform, and how the musicians who played and ate around the kitchen table of his childhood home in County Clare continue to inspire his musical life.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vv1k
> 21:00    (17 minutes)

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Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Sarsgaard, Casting Directors - 2024
Front Row - Radio4
Rhiannon Giddens, the musician, composer and former lead singer of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, performs live with her band. She talks about her work in uncovering the real history of the banjo and writing her first solo album of original material. first item ~20minutes
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wjgh

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Dan Damon looks back at the Radio Ballads & political songs - 2015
Broadcasting House
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05nsb41
> skip to 17:40   ~6 minutes

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Soundtrack to life - September 2023
Start the Week
The singer Natalie Merchant, writer Michel Faber and teacher-cum-broadcaster Jeffrey Boakye discuss the power of music with Kirsty Wark.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ry9f

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Here Comes Radio 2 With A Wassail - 2017
Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine Show
Amol Rajan interviewing West Countryman Les Davies and apple and cider writer Pete Brown.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04qw9ph

a much better clip on Les' own page
www.westcountryman.co.uk/radio2wassail
audios of Les leading a wassail at the Somerset Rural Life Museum.
2013
https://soundcloud.com/glastonbury-uk/19-january-2013-wassail-at-the-somerset-rural-life-museum-with-les-davies
2014
https://soundcloud.com/glastonbury-uk/18-january-2014-wassail-at-the-rural-life-museum-with-les-davies-mbe-westcountrymancouk

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Here We Come a-Wassailing - 2014
The Early Music Show
Lucie Skeaping introduces some of the music that has been associated with the wassailing tradition and her guests include the historian Joanna Crosby, from Essex Univeristy, who has a particular interest in apples.
Download (UK Only)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vdgq4