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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 23 Nov 24 - 04:47 AM Available from tomorrow morning (the individual episodes are available now) Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay (Omnibus) "Jackie Kay reflects on her love of blues singer Bessie Smith. She explores the life of the Empress of the Blues and considers the effect the icon had on her as she grew up as a black girl adopted by white parents. Orphaned by the age of nine, Bessie Smith sang on the street to support her siblings and was swept into travelling shows as a young woman. Facing extreme racial prejudice, she brawled under the influence of bathtub gin and had tumultuous love affairs with men and women. She also sold hundreds of thousands of records and became a genuine superstar. Mixing biography, fiction, music and memoir, Jackie Kay remembers the electric thrill of identification when, as a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, she was first heard the music of the Empres Written and read by Jackie Kay. Omnibus of five episodes abridged by Rosemary Goring. With Adjoa Andoh From 2016 to 2021, Jackie Kay was the Makar - Scotland's poet laureate. Producer: Eilidh McCreadie First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2021." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 Nov 24 - 11:58 PM Amapiano: The sound of South Africa BBC World Service The Documentary Podcast 21 November 2024 Available indefinitely South African DJ Legendary Crisp, charts the rise of the homegrown dance music genre Amapiano. She finds out where the hypnotising, jazzy, soulful sound emerged from, what it means culturally, and how it became South Africa's signature music genre of the 2020s. Radio Producer Tim Moorhouse travels to Johannesburg to meet Legendary Crisp and find out about Amapiano's cultural importance. Featuring contributions from Boohle, Josiah De Disciple, Lula Obiba, Madzadza Miya, Nimrod Pitso, Tman Xpress, Felo Le Tee, Chr B, Nkosazana Daughter, Rosey Gold and O.L. Shabba. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Nov 24 - 09:55 AM BBC Radio 3 Music Planet 21:30 23 November 2024 The Joy 23 Nov 2024 Available for 29 days Lopa Khotari explores the rich musical traditions of South Africa with a special live session from the Zulu a cappella quintet The Joy, fresh off their European tour following the release of a self-titled debut album earlier this year. 21:30 30 November 2024 Aidan O’Rourke’s Return Journey Kathryn Tickell with the finest in roots-based music. Plus, Scottish fiddle player Aidan O’Rourke shares two tracks: one he met on his travels, and one that reminds him of home. 21:30 14 December 2024 Mountain music Get your hiking boots on! In the week of the annual International Mountain Day, Kathryn Tickell takes in some high-altitude selections from around the globe. 21:30 21 December 2024 Music Planet at Christmas The best roots-based music from across the world. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Rain Dog Date: 27 Nov 24 - 02:46 AM Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and available for over a year Ella In Berlin "Jazz singers Cleveland Watkiss and Dame Cleo Laine listen to Ella Fitzgerald's Mac the Knife, when she forgot the words in Berlin on 13 February 1960, and then have a go themselves. For post-war Germany jazz, which had been banned under Hitler, was the music of freedom. When Norman Granz first brought his Jazz at the Philharmonic tours to Europe in the 1950s, Germans flocked to the concerts and Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald were soon firm favourites. In February 1960, the German part of the tour opened in Berlin. Mac the Knife, from Brecht's Threepenny Opera, had been a number one for Bobby Darin for nine weeks the previous year, and Ella's friend Louis Armstrong had a hit with it in 1956. But Ella had never sung it. As a tribute to the people of Berlin, she decided she would. She did, but not the version they knew. Yet it was this improvisation that would win her two Grammy awards. Cleveland Watkiss, for whom Ella Fitzgerald has always been an inspiration, explores her virtuoso improvisation and scat-singing, in the company of another virtuoso performer, Dame Cleo Laine. They hear from people who were there that night in the Deutschlandhalle, including tour manager, Fritz Rau, pianist Paul Smith and guitarist Jim Hall, and from the author of a cultural biography of Ella Fitzgerald, Judith Tick. Award-winning Cleveland Watkiss has a life-long passion for Cleo Laine and finally had the opportunity to meet - and sing with - her in the course of making this programme! Producer: Marya Burgess First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013" |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,jOhn Date: 30 Nov 24 - 03:14 PM Documentry about Shane McGowan on radio 4 now |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 30 Nov 24 - 03:42 PM Thank you, jOhn. BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4 Shane MacGowan: The Old Main Drag - Available on BBC Sounds A year has passed since the world lost one of its great songwriters. Journalist and author Sean O’Hagan explores the lyrical genius of Shane MacGowan, presenting him as a voice of the Irish diaspora. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 05 Dec 24 - 03:37 PM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe 9:00 Wednesday then BBC Sounds 4 December Ralph McTell - then and now 29 days left to listen This week, much-loved songwriter and guitarist Ralph McTell joins Mark, the day after Ralph turned 80. Mark looks back at Ralph's early days on stage and on the BBC. There's also a chance to hear Ralph's newest work. 11 December Saturday 14 December 02:00 Festive fireside folk Available for 39 days Mark plays O Tannenbaum by The Unthanks to lead us into a winter wonderland. The show also includes two Sheffield pub carols, a snapshot of Christmas in prison, and a pre-dawn Welsh plygain song. Paul Brady and Andy Irvine sing a classic song set on a Christmas morning. Mark also hears a poem read by John Tams. 8 January Shaun Keaveny sits in |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Dec 24 - 03:49 PM Anna Massie Travelling Folk Radio Scotland 20.00 Thursday 7 November Allan Henderson sits in. 1 day left to listen Orcadian fiddler Graham Rorie joins Allan in his inaugural year as artistic director for the Scots Fiddle Festival. 14 November Ryan Young in Concert from the Rudolstadt Festival in Germany. 8 days left to listen Anna Massie brings the highlights from Germany's largest folk festival, Rudolstadt, featuring a live concert from Ryan Young with Owen Sinclair on guitar. 21 November Malachy Tallack: That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz. 15 days left to listen Anna presents the best of folk and roots including a live interview with Shetland author and singer-songwriter Malachy Tallack. 28 November Scotia Folk including a dive into the musical history of the Scotia Bar, Glasgow's oldest pub. 22 days left to listen In the 60s and 70s, you could've rubbed glasses in the Scotia with such folky legends as Robin Hall & Jimmie MacGregor, Hamish Imlach, The Dubliners, The Humblebums, Danny Kyle, Christy Moore and many more. Anna meets Scotia bar regular, singer Alan Meikle, for a pint and a blether about the pub’s colourful musical past. 05 Dec 2024 Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook & Alice Marra. Available for 29 days Anna has news of Phil Cunningham's upcoming Christmas Songbook tour - a seasonal favourite featuring a star-studded lineup of some of the finest musicians on the Scottish folk scene. This year includes the inimitable Eddi Reader, Scottish songstress Karen Matheson OBE, celebrated multi-instrumentalist John McCusker, Orcadian roots singer and guitarist Kris Drever, guitar virtuoso Ian Carr and double bassist Kevin McGuire. Michael Marra’s contribution to culture is being celebrated in Dundee this Dececmber via screenings of his legendary High Sobriety concert at the Bonar Hall, recorded in 2000. 24 years later, this newly re-edited and restored version brings to life the magic of the Bard o’ Lochee’s captivating presence, a rare opportunity to experience the concert that was recorded for his High Sobriety live album. Michael's daughter, Alice Marra, joins Anna to chat about her father's incredible legacy. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Dec 24 - 04:13 PM BBC Radio Scotland at Christmas highlights include Who’s that Girl?, marking the 70th birthday of Annie Lennox on Christmas Day. Grant Stott explores her back catalogue, featuring music from The Tourists, Eurythmics and her solo records, plus archive interviews. In Capercaillie at 40, Gary Innes interviews band members about their memories and highlights from the last four decades, finding out why they are still so beloved across the world. Michelle McManus hosts Radio Scotland's Christmas Concert, an hour packed with festive songs and cheer. Michelle's joined by both The Glasgow Youth Choir and Rock Choir for some of the season’s favourite songs. Anna Massie presents Travelling Folk's Boxing Day Ceilidh. BBC ALBA is set to bring together some of trad music’s biggest names to celebrate Hogmanay 2024 for the annual live event, Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire. Scottish supergroup, Mànran, along with other well-known trad music acts including Royal National Mòd 2024 gold-medallist, Alice MacMillan, have been announced in the line-up at this year’s event, broadcasting from Nairn Community and Arts Centre in the Highlands. The iconic Hogmanay show will be broadcast live on BBC ALBA and worldwide on Radio nan Gàidheal, with Cathy MacDonald and Niall Iain Macdonald hosting the cèilidh. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Dec 24 - 04:24 PM Other Voices Cardigan with Huw Stephens BBC Two Wales and BBC iPlayer, 21 December 10.55pm Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield takes to the stage at the Other Voices festival in Cardigan, performing some of the band’s well-known tracks in a rare solo acoustic set, and singing in Welsh for the very first time. In this special hour-long programme, presenter Huw Stephens shares his highlights from the festival, including performances from soulful Canadian singer songwriter Charlotte Day Wilson, performance powerhouse Nadine Shah, sublime vocalist Victor Ray, acclaimed Merseyside singer songwriter Bill Ryder-Jones, Welsh Music Prize winner Georgia Ruth and - with a debut album tipped as one of 2024’s best - Fabiana Palladino. As part of the programme, Huw also sits down to talk with some of the headline acts from the weekend, including special interviews with James Dean Bradfield and Nadine Shah. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST Date: 09 Dec 24 - 08:49 AM The first episode of a 10 part series started today on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. A Cause for Caroling "1. A Carol's a Carol, to Begin With A Cause for Caroling Choral conductor and scholar Jeremy Summerly tells the story of the Christmas carol in Britain in this ten-part series. He begins by trying to capture something of the caroling traditions of today and then heads back into the misty caroling past discovering what he believes is the first carol in the English language. The Christmas carol is as popular now as it was when carolers celebrated the birth of Edward III in 1312. Back then the carol was a generic term for a song with its roots in dance form. Nowadays only the strictest scholar would quibble with the fact that a carol is a Christmas song. But the journey the carol has taken is unique in music history because each shift in the story has been preserved in the carols that we sing today. Go to a carol concert now and you're likely to hear folk, medieval, mid-Victorian and modern music all happily combined. It's hard to imagine that happening in any other situation. Jeremy Summerly follows the carol journey through the Golden age of the Medieval carol into the troubled period of Reformation and puritanism, along the byways of the 17th and 18th century waits and gallery musicians and in to the sudden explosion of interest in the carol in the 19th century. It's a story that sees the carol veer between the sacred and secular even before there was any understanding of those terms.. Jeremy traces the folk carol in and out of church grounds, the carol hymn, the fuguing carol and the many other off-shoots, some of which survive to this day and many others which languish unloved but ready for re-discovery. It's a journey full of song describing the history of a people who needed expression for seasonal joy in the coldest, hardest time of the year. And however efficient the heating system may be, the carol still generates warmth. Much of that is to do with the positive nostalgia of this music. The series title is taken from a Thomas Hardy poem in which he ponders of a Darkling Thrush why it should chose to sing - 'so little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound' - is the question asked. This series is an attempt to answer why carols remain so popular and familiar to so many. Jeremy brings the series up to date with the story of the famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast by the BBC since the 1920s but born originally in Truro. It's a service that commands a worldwide audience measured in millions, but as Jeremy concludes it has left an imbalance in the appreciation of our caroling tradition, a tradition that has always had one foot in the pub and another in the choir stalls. Producer: Tom Alban" |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 11 Dec 24 - 01:30 PM BBC Radio 3 Sunday 01 December 2024 Carols Across the Country Available for 19 days A celebration of Christmas music and Advent traditions 06:30 As Advent dawns, we begin our seasonal journey live from Martin Mere Wetland Centre 09:00 Local traditions and carols from Cannon Hall, Barnsley with Grimethorpe Colliery Band 11:00 Carols connected to Cornwall from St Michael's Mount 13:00 Scottish carols at Glenluig Hall in the Highlands 14:45 The legacy of Radio 3's Advent carol service 15:00 A service for Advent live from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge 16:30 A selection of poems from the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy, Co Derry 18:00 Hannah French and Catrin Finch in All Saints church, Oystermouth near Swansea Bay 19:30-20:45 Words and music celebrating Advent and Christmas traditions from around the UK BBC Radio 3 Sunday 15 December 2024 Christmas Around Europe 10 hours A day-long festival of Christmas music and singing from across Europe in the European Broadcasting Union’s ever-popular annual Christmas music day. 1200 noon Saarbrücken, Germany. The German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. 1.00pm Barcelona, Spain. Christmas music from 16th and 17th Century Spain by Joan Cererols, Miquel López and Tomás Luis de Victoria/ 2.00pm Prague, Czech Republic. Baroque and Classical chamber music and some Czech traditional music for Christmas played by members of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra' 3.00pm Copenhagen, Denmark. Christmas choral music by Poulenc and Villette and Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols at the Garrison Church, Copenhagen. 4.00pm Vilnius, Lithuania. The Baltic Way String Quartet perform music by Peteris Vasks, Arvo Pärt, Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis and Teisutis Makacinas. 5.00pm Munich, Germany. Respighi's Lauda per la Natività del Signore and arrangements of traditional Sicilian Christmas carols from ‘Canti Religiosi del popolo siciliano. 6.00pm Cologne, Germany. Christmas jazz concert with Lynne Fiddmont and the WDR Big Band. 7.00pm Dresden, Germany. The Dresden Chamber Choir perform works by composers including Michael Praetorius, Eccard , Mendelssohn, Brahms and Arvo Pärt. 8.00pm Helsinki, Finland. Emma Salokoski sings traditional seasonal Finnish folk music with the Ilmiliekki Quartet at the Kallio Church, Helsinki. 9.00pm Reykjavik, Iceland. Hallgrím's Church Choir and the Brák Baroque Ensemble perform choral and orchestral music. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 12 Dec 24 - 08:45 AM Here are a couple of Christmassy programmes available on Sounds Sing Christmas - 2004 Archive on 4 Christmas Day 1957; the BBC made a ground-breaking hour-long live broadcast, transmitting Christmas songs from around the British Isles. Texan folklorist and broadcaster Alan Lomax was the host. ,,,ancient carols, folk songs, calypso, West African music, dixieland, skiffle, children's carols and glees. This musical time capsule gathers the memories of those involved to recapture the flavour of this pioneering BBC broadcast. Producer: Jolyon Jenkins www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076ppm Fairytale of New York - Dec 2015 Soul Music James Fearnley, pianist with The Pogues recounts how the song started off as a transatlantic love story between an Irish seafarer missing his girl at Christmas before becoming the bittersweet reminiscences of the Irish immigrant down on his luck in the Big Apple & stories about how the song has touched others. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s9d1h |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 12 Dec 24 - 12:20 PM BBC Sounds Radio 3 The Essay Dig Where You Stand 5 episodes June 2024 The Arnisdale Fiddler and the Fairy Musician Allan Henderson was taught by the great fiddler Aonghas Grant. Aonghas gave Allan the tune 'Dalshangie' and shared the story of the Arnisdale fiddler, Neil Campbell, who was on his way home from playing at a wedding in Knoydart and chanced upon a fairy. The fairy admired his playing and gave him an enchanted bow. This tune is said to have come from Neil and his enchanted bow. Allan visits Arnisdale to share the story of the tune and play it in the place it was born. Death in the Yarrow Valley The 'Dowie Dens o' Yarrow' is a border ballad collected by Walter Scott and published in his 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' in 1802. Singer and ethnologist Lori Watson has unearthed an alternative version of the ballad which was sung by Margaret Laidlaw, the mother of the writer James Hogg. Lori explains why this version of the tragic song offers more meaning for her as she stands under the James Hogg statue in the Yarrow Valley. Sowing Oats in Ceredigion Singer Owen Shiers lives in Ceredigion in west Wales where he has found himself on a mission to save the ancient Welsh black oat from extinction. During his research on the crop, he discovered the work of farmer poet Isgarn. Born in 1887, he was a chronicler of working the land. Owen has set his poem 'Y Medelwr' - The Reaperman - to music and discusses its particular relevance to connecting with the land in 21st-century Wales. Larking About in the Fields of Cornwall 'The Lark in the Morning' is an English folk song which has been sung by many artists over the years. However, singer Angeline Morrison - with the help of Merv Davey - has discovered a different version which was collected at the Falcon Inn in St Mawgan in the 1890s known simply as 'The Lark'. Angeline shares the story of the song and brings it back to life in the place it was found. Pickin' Tatties near Arbroath Folklorist and singer Steve Byrne sets out the concept of 'Dig Where You Stand' using an example from his home town of Arbroath on the East Coast of Scotland. Whilst digitising archive tapes from the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh, he came across the songs of Mabel Skelton recorded by Hamish Henderson in the mid 1980s. The song 'Pickin' Tatties' struck a chord and resulted in Steve taking it back to the town and teaching it to school children. He takes us to the spot where the song was born and discusses the cultural confidence that comes from connecting local people with their own traditions. And how this concept has been utilised in other parts of the world. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 12 Dec 24 - 07:06 PM BBC Radio 3 Essential Classics weekdays in December - at 10.30am Essential Carols Radio 3's specialist seasonal series of Essential Carols launches - each day, a range of musicians, actors and writers, including Bryn Terfel, Errollyn Wallen, Charlotte Ritchie, Reverend Richard Coles, Elim Chan, and Dr Sian Williams will introduce their favourite carol, sharing their personal anecdotes. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Dec 24 - 01:36 AM BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship Carols for the Christ Child 8:10am Sunday 1 December Carols for the Christ Child 17 days left to listen 8 December Carols for the Christ Child : ‘Fel yr Wyt’ / ‘As you are’ – the Welsh Plygain Carol Tradition 24 days left to listen On this Second Sunday in Advent, Sunday Worship comes from St Garmon’s Church, nestled in the Ceiriog Valley in the North-East of Wales. Priest, composer and musician Rev. Dr Cass Meurig Thomas, and Welsh poet and musician Gwyneth Glyn explore the sound, poetry and spirituality of the unique Welsh Plygain carol tradition. We hear a feast of archive recordings, as well live performances at St Garmon’s by Arfon Gwilym, Sioned Webb and Siân James, individuals for whom the Plygain tradition forms an important part of their lives. They also share some of the history of this unique tradition, as well as personal memories of attending the Plygain services across the years. 15 December Carols for the Christ Child: Village Carols As Christmas approaches and the sound of carolling is heard in churches around the country, in the pubs and band halls in the villages around Sheffield and North Derbyshire, the sound is somewhat different. Hundreds flock to the local boozer to join their voices in song, in anticipation of Christmas. But the tunes and texts are unique to this tradition and, outside the local area, most people wouldn't recognise the carols being sung. 22 December “Carols for the Christ Child” ends this Fourth Sunday of Advent with a service from Fisherwick Presbyterian Church in Belfast with the Chapel Choir of Methodist College, Belfast. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Dec 24 - 01:59 AM BBC Radio 4 Extra A Cause for Carolling Choral conductor and scholar Jeremy Summerly traces the origins and traditions of the Christmas carol in Britain 9 December-13 December Episodes 1-5 25 days left to listen 16 December-20 December 09:30 Episodes 6-10 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 15 Dec 24 - 07:01 AM BBC Radio 4 Sunday 15 December Sunday Worship Carols for the Christ Child: Village Carols Available for 29 days As Christmas approaches and the sound of carolling is heard in churches around the country, in the pubs and band halls in the villages around Sheffield and North Derbyshire, the sound is somewhat different. Includes Ian Russell talking at the Blue Boar in Worrall. Star of Bethlehem Sung by The Dungworth Singers Led by Jon Boden While Shepherds Watched Tune: Lyngham Recorded at The Plough, Bradfield Sweet Chiming Bells Kate Rusby A Song for a Time Sung by Paul Horton at Dungworth Village Hall Sweet Chiming Bells Sung by the Carollers from the Blue Ball Inn, Worral While Shepherds Watched Tune: Liverpool The Melrose Quartet Mortals Awake with Angels Join Tune: Mount Zion Recorded at Dungworth Village Hall Reapers Recorded at Dungworth Village Hall The Holly and the Ivy The Melrose Quartet Hark, Hark! What news those angels bring? Tune: Oughtibridge Recorded at The Cock Inn, Oughtibridge Sing all ye people of the earth today Tune: Stannington Recorded at The Cock Inn, Oughtibridge While Shepherds Watched Tune: Old Foster Sung by The Dungworth Singers Led by Jon Boden Awake, Arise Good Christians Kate Rusby Will your anchor hold? Sung by The Dungworth Singers and Carollers at Dungworth Village Hall Led by Jon Boden While Shepherds Watched Tune: Lyngham Jon Boden A Merry Christmas (We singers make bold) Recorded at Dungworth Village Hall An interesting programme! A good selection of carols mostly recorded at a variety of venues around Sheffield. 38 minutes, so not many complete performances. But no Coope Boyes and Simpson! Their successors Narthen perform on Zoom on Tuesday 17 December. Tickets from Live to your Living Room. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 16 Dec 24 - 04:11 PM BBC Radio 6 Sunday 10:00am 22 December 2024 Cerys Matthews Happy Christmas! Cerys gets in the festive spirit with a Santa's sack full of Christmas records. Orchestra Mambo International play live in session, Bill Bailey drops by for a chat and a mince pie, plus Sarah Clegg shares stories of lesser-known Christmas traditions and Cerys opens the final door in the musical advent calendar with jazz bandleader Giacomo Smith! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 16 Dec 24 - 04:35 PM BBC Radio Cornwall Special; 9:30am Monday 23 December A special Cornish Christmas We join the farming community for a special carol service from the Primestock Show in Truro. We have carols, readings and Christmas songs from Carclaze Community Primary School and Truro Cathedral Choral scholars. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 17 Dec 24 - 05:51 AM St Just in Midwinter - 2022 Open Country 8:15 In the heart of the town is the "plen-an-gwari", one of the last of the Cornish medieval amphitheatres built to host a sequence of religious mystery plays, the Ordinalia. Helen meets Graham Jobbins, Mary Ann Bloomfield and Isobel Bloomfield, the family playing a central part in ensuring the tradition continues. 19:15 local Carols https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9gz The Village Carol Tradition - 2017 Professor Ian Russell tells us about a carolling tradition that is upheld in around 30 villages in South Yorkshire and the Derbyshire Peak. 12 minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05rsqgs While Shepherds Watched - Dec 2023 : The hidden world of the South Yorkshire village carol sings Sunday Feature Elizabeth Alker sets out in search of lost carols, a thriving and binding social phenomenon, speaking with Dr. Russell, local punters for whom these carols serve an important social function and folk musicians like Kate Rusby, brought up on the pub carolling tradition and one of the vast array of musicians who are enabling this hidden tradition to flourish. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001thbn |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 17 Dec 24 - 11:25 AM BBC Radio Shropshire seem to have asked Genevieve back to do a one-off one hour festive programme : Genevieve Tudor's Folk Monday 23/12/2024 18:00 GMT repeated Wednesday 25/12/2024 13:00 GMT Genevieve has the finest selection of festive folk music from across the county. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k7c2vw If you want more, Genevieve's MixCloud podcasts for December have all been Christmassy : www.mixcloud.com/Genevieve_Tudor/ |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: Beer Date: 17 Dec 24 - 07:41 PM Here is a web site I use a lot. https://radio.garden/settings/introduction |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 19 Dec 24 - 02:32 PM Saturday 21 December BBC Radio 5:00pm Radio 3 This Classical Life Jess Gillam is joined by Jon Boden. 6:15pm Radio 4 Loose Ends including Barb Jungr 8:00pm Radio Archive on 4: A Child's Christmas Cerys Mathews explores children's tales. 9.30pm Radio 3 Music Planet at Christmas including Columbian act Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto. Sunday 22 December 10:00am Radio 6 Cerys Matthews 7:15pm Radio 4 The Horse at the Door; British folk tradition of mummers. Monday 23 December 11:45am (Daily) Radio 4 The Dead of Winter 1/5 Lesser-known Christmas traditions. 1:00am ie Monday evening after midnight Radio 6 Music Four hours devoted to Joni Mitchell. 1:00 BBC sessions from 1968 and 1972; 2:00 Live at TV Centre 1970; 3:00 Johnny Walker's Long Players Blue 4:00 The Joni Mitchell Playlist |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 19 Dec 24 - 08:31 PM Victoria Wood - Loose Chippings - 2024 Archive on 4 During the making of her much-loved sitcom dinnerladies, Victoria Wood was also recording her own personal audio diary, talking not just about the show she was writing and starring in but with thoughts and reminiscences across her whole career. Now her biographer, writer and journalist Jasper Rees, has been granted unique access not only to these tapes but also to Victoria’s own private archive, including much never-before-broadcast stand-up and songs, and treasures such as the previously-thought lost song that launched her career on ITVs New Faces and a private recording of her first ever concert as a student in Birmingham University that lay hidden for 50 years. Produced by David Tyler www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00261x8 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Dec 24 - 04:32 PM BBC Radio 4 06:30 Saturday 21 December Farming Today In the final five minutes; And carols - in the pub. It's a tradition that sprang up in Yorkshire in the nineteenth century, where people would go to the village pub and sing carols to the old tunes. All week we've been looking at the fortunes of rural pubs. And to celebrate Christmas, locals in the small market town of Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire are reviving village carols from Somerset, Wiltshire and Cornwall. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,Anne Lister sans cookie Date: 21 Dec 24 - 05:41 PM Radio 3 today - This Classical Life featured Jess Gillam with Jon Boden. All manner of treats including Watersons, Steeleye Span, a song he learnt from Will Noble, and Dungworth Carols. Still available on Sounds. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 25 Dec 24 - 05:39 AM BBC Radio 4 Christmas Day 10.00 Woman's Hour The Unthanks are known for combining traditional English folk, particularly Northumbrian folk music, with other musical genres. They have just finished a UK tour, and they have a new album out – The Unthanks In Winter. They perform two songs live in the studio: Bleary Winter and The Cherry Tree Carol. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2024 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 26 Dec 24 - 07:18 AM BBC Radio Scotland 20:00 26 December Anna Massie presents Travelling Folk's Boxing Day Ceilidh. Anna joins the house band led by Angus Lyon and featuring fiddler Lauren MacColl and James Lindsay on the double bass. Special guest performances come from the wonderful Siobhan Miller, New Mexico's Cahalen Morrison, north east fiddling sensation Paul Anderson and one of Scotland's foremost tradition bearers Shona Donaldson. Grab your mince pies and mulled wine and join us for an evening of live music. 31 December 23:30 The iconic Hogmanay show will be broadcast live on BBC ALBA and worldwide on Radio nan Gàidheal, with Cathy MacDonald and Niall Iain Macdonald hosting the cèilidh. Cèilidh Na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2024 beò a Ionad Coimhearsnachd is Ealain Inbhir Narann. Air a’ lìbhrigeadh le Cathy Nic Dhòmhnaill agus Niall Iain Dòmhnallach, bidh aoigheachd, ceòl is plòigh ann am pailt’ a’ feitheamh. Tha’d a’ cur fàilte air Mànran, Alice Nic a’ Mhaoilein, Seonaidh Beag Mac a’ Mhaoilein , Calum Ailig Mac a’ Mhaoilein, Mairi Nic Ille Mhaoilein, Còisir Ghàidhlig Inbhir Narann agus Còmhlan Cèilidh Alba le Ingrid NicEanraig a’stiuireadh a chiùil. Cathy MacDonald and Niall Iain MacDonald bring in the New Year live from Nairn Community and Arts Centre. Music and dancing galore from Mànran, Alice MacMillan, Seonaidh Beag & Calum Alex MacMillan, Mairi MacMillan and Nairn Gaelic Choir plus the Alba Ceilidh Band, led by musical director Ingrid Henderson. |
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