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Thread #54099   Message #838192
Posted By: Harry Basnett
01-Dec-02 - 06:17 AM
Thread Name: Ballad of the North West (BBC TV series)
Subject: RE: Ballad of the North West
Mark........why not hget in touch with Alan Bell (director of Fylde Folk Festival) who presented the programme?

I remember the song 'Old Pendle' for the first time - - being used on a programme about Witchcraft in Lancashire and 'Lament of the Border Widow' and @Blow the Candle Out' but not the theme of the programmes where they wewre used...I think 'The Bold Astrologer' was also used on the witchcraft programme.....

I taped a couple of shows on my trusty cassette player (long gone, I'm afraid) along with the Steeleye Span television series which must have been showing at the same time (about 1975, methinks.....)

All the best with your research and let us know how you get on....

Harry Basnett.

PS. If you go on the Fylde Festival Website you'll be able to get Alan Bell's email address.