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Thread #57940   Message #914671
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
20-Mar-03 - 02:02 PM
Thread Name: Folk Music on BBC Radio 3 Now
Subject: RE: Folk Music on BBC Radio 3 Now
They played quite a bit of contemporary material; some relevant, some not. Maggie Holland's song was included, of course, sung by June Tabor if I remember correctly. Essentially, it was a discussion of tradition, so it wouldn't have been very useful to have included too many modern songs that may or may not become part of a tradition at some unknown point in the future. On the whole, the parts where people speculated about possible future developments were the least successful, I thought.