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GUEST,henryp 18 Jan 23 - 02:01 PM
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Subject: BBC TV This week 2023
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 10 Jan 23 - 07:37 PM


Fri 14 Jan 2023    22:00 - BBC FOUR

Transatlantic Sessions - Series 1 - 2009

Episode 1
With Emmylou Harris, Iris DeMent, Mary Black, Kathy Mattea and John Martyn.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gq7hv
&
Episode 2
With Kathy Mattea, John Martyn, Karen Matheson, Mary Black and Emmylou Harris.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gvk8v



Fri 20 Jan 2023    22:00 - BBC FOUR

Transatlantic Sessions - Series 1 - 2009

Episode 3
Featuring Karen Matheson, Mary Black, Emmylou Harris, Rufus Wainwright and Davy Spillane.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h6xm8
&
Episode 4
Featuring Emmylou Harris, Dougie McLean, Kathy Mattea, Iris Dement and Guy Clark.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hd374



Transatlantic Sessions
episodes guide
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gtlnv/episodes/guide



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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 10 Jan 23 - 08:03 PM


Wayfaring Stranger with Phil Cunningham - 2017
Phil Cunningham explores age-old musical connections between Scotland, Ulster and America.



Fri 13 Jan 2023    21:00 - BBC FOUR

Episode 1
Featuring performances from Paul Brady and Rhiannon Giddens.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08lnlhz


Fri 20 Jan 2023    21:00 - BBC FOUR

Episode 2
Phil Cunningham travels from Philadelphia to Nashville.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mj69q


(probably)Fri 27 Jan 2023    21:00 - BBC FOUR

Episode 3
Phil Cunningham ends his journey at the Grand Ol' Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08n8hpk


All currently available on iPlayer

episodes guide
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08lnkqn/episodes/guide


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 10 Jan 23 - 08:07 PM

! typo, not Fri 14 Jan
^^
Transatlantic Sessions Fri 13 Jan


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 02:01 PM

Friday 20 January BBC4

9:00 Wayfaring Stranger with Phil Cunningham 2/3
10:00 Transatlantic Sessions Karen Matheson and Emmylou Harris
10:30 Transatlantic Sessions Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris and Mary Black
11:00 Reginald D Hunter's Songs of the Border; along the US/Mexico border


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 09:19 AM

I've watched two of the Transatlantic Sessions so far. What a treat. More still to see!


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 03:09 PM

Friday 20 January BBC4

9:00 Crosby and Nash; In Concert 1970
9:30 Wayfaring Stranger with Phil Cunningham 2/3
10:30 Transatlantic Sessions Karen Matheson and Emmylou Harris
11:00 Transatlantic Sessions Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris and Mary Black
11:300 Reginald D Hunter's Songs of the Border; along the US/Mexico border
12:45 Southern Rock at the BBC including Ozark Mountain Daredevils
01:45 Wayfaring Stranger with Phil Cunningham 2/3


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 23 Jan 23 - 05:46 PM

Wednesday 25 January Sky Arts
9:00 Robert Burns A celebration of his life

Friday 27 January BBC4
9:00 Wayfaring Stranger with Phil Cunningham in Nashville
10:00 Transatlantic Sessions Emmylou Harris and Dougie McLean
10:30 Transatlantic Sessions Iris Dement

Friday 27 January Sky Arts
7:00 Discovering The Mamas and the Papas
7:30-12:00 Fleetwood Mac videos and concerts


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 Feb 23 - 05:46 AM

Saturday 25 February 2023 BBC2

21:00 Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice; A musical biography of one of the most successful female singers of all time.

22:35 The Old Grey Whistle Test Linda Ronstadt Bob Harris introduces Linda Ronstadt in concert at the New Victoria Theatre in 1976.

23:25 Sisters in Country: Dolly, Linda and Emmylou How the three country singers ended up uniting as close harmony singers on the Trio album.

00:25 Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country Emmylou Harris presents in performance her ten rules for what makes a great country song.

01:25 The Old Grey Whistle Test Emmylou Harris Country legend Emmylou Harris and The Hot Band perform a special concert.


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Apr 23 - 12:26 PM

9pm 23 April 2023
The Alehouse Sessions   BBC 4 -
Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene - plus a cameo appearance by celebrated soprano Mary Bevan.

Beauty, improvisation, melancholy, bawdiness - Purcell, Playford and their European contemporaries bang heads with ballads, ditties, elegies, sea-shanties and folk song. Along with a variety of classical stringed instruments, their own arrangements delight us in a joyful mix of vocals, percussion, harmonium, guitar, charango and storytelling.
Filmed on location in one of London's oldest taverns, The George Inn, Southwark.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lcvt

Barokksolistene
“The signature of this project is the interaction on stage between the players and the audience. If it has to be put in a historical context, the project draws its inspiration from the Shakespearian theatre where there was a direct communication between stage and hall- going in-between the story that was being told and occurring events happening in the hall. This is in stark contrast to the 19th century drama with dark halls looking at the “gods” on stage. It is the latter which the classical mainstream industry has adapted fully.”
Using their own arrangement of the tunes, these ‘Alehouse Boys’ combine this unique format with humour, an unrivalled virtuosity and flare for improvisation.


Bjarte Eike (NO): violin, vocals, artistic director
Fredrik Bock (SE): guitar, charango, vocals
Per Buhre (SE): viola, vocals
Tom Guthrie (UK): lead vocals, violin
Johannes Lundberg (SE): double bass, vocals
Helge Andreas Norbakken (NO): percussion, vocals
Steven Player (UK): dance, guitar, vocals
Hans Knut Sveen (NO): harmonium, harpsichord, vocals
Milos Valent (SK): violin, viola, vocals
https://www.barokksolistene.com/thealehousesessions/
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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 23 Apr 23 - 05:20 PM

Just watched the above with incredulity. Perhaps I was expecting something else. Okay, a positive to start with, enjoyed the musicianship, albeit largely played om modern instruments.

Couldn't fault that, but what a weird confusing mish-mash from a load of posturing hooray-Henrys. Supposedly set in the mid seventeenth century, interspersed with 19th century chanties, Burns song from the late eighteenth, tunes from the nineteenth, mostly Irish.
Warning, this is what happens to your folksongs when the hooray-Henrys get hold of them! Lots of taking the piss out of the folksongs taken straight from 'Folksongs for Schools'. Not a lot of research done then!

A minor quibble, the sound levels were all over the place. Many pieces were so low volume that even if you turned the volume up full you could barely hear them.

We get so little time on the Beeb for folksong and when it does come along it's taken to pieces like this. Poor!


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 23 Apr 23 - 06:08 PM

We've just watched it. It might not have been for the purist (though I did see one fiddle bow that looked authentic), but we both enjoyed it: each of us separately caught ourselves applauding. Spirited, and not an electric instrument in sight. Folk as *entertainment*, as it should be.


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,Lang Johnnie More
Date: 24 Apr 23 - 04:03 AM

Nah, I'm with Steve on this. A bunch of musical poseurs. 20 minutes was more than enough. Life's too short.
BUT - the audience seemed to enjoy it, as did the above poster, so good luck to them. Just not for me. I had hoped for better when I came across the programme by accident.
Oh - and I hadn't heard of Oliver Cromwell banning musical instruments from being taken in to pubs/inns/taverns. Where did that come from ?


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 24 Apr 23 - 04:27 AM

I haven't watched it yet but I have it recorded.

During the Commonwealth no public music pefromances were allowed but there was no prohibition on music making in private. It's one of the reasons Playford's (and other's) tune books became so popular.

Might it be considered the first 'folk revival'?


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Apr 23 - 03:03 PM

Guests, please assign yourself a guest name, such as GUEST, Freddie or GUEST, Greenie (that have been used by a couple of you elsewhere) so we know who we're talking to. Conversations flow better that way. Thanks.


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 24 Apr 23 - 04:34 PM

Playford may have been popular with the London elite but there is no evidence it was popular with or accessible to 17th century 'folk'. Some would say it has never been popular with the 'folk', only 20th century revivalists!


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 Apr 23 - 05:35 PM

Haven't yet watched this programme as discussed in the last few posts, but have seen a number of posts in Facebook, with opinions ranging from very good to those similar to Steve G's and LJM's.
I'll watch on iPlayer and let you know!


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 28 May 23 - 07:56 AM

Friday 2 August BBC4 TV

9.00pm In Concert; Gordon Lightfoot from Spring 1970
10.05 Sounds of the Sixties; The Folk Revival
10.35 Robbie Robertson & The Band


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: DaveRo
Date: 28 May 23 - 08:59 AM

Friday 2 August June BBC4 TV
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b/2023/06/02


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 21 Jul 23 - 03:56 PM

ref henryp   A curiosity!
Robson Green and Sandra Kerr sing Water of Tyne.

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171921#4177352

Robson Green's Weekend Escapes
Series 1, Episode 5   BBC TV - 2023
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dp3ml9

If you've not got iPlayer there's a one minute clip lower down the page.


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 23 Jul 23 - 03:20 PM

currently available for about four weeks
Hamish - 2016
BBC Alba

Documentary film about Hamish Henderson, a colossal figure in Scottish culture and a man of endless passion and curiosity, whose poems continue to elevate and inspire a nation.

This highly anticipated documentary pays tribute to the many contrary forces and diverse facets of Henderson's life as a poet, soldier, intellectual, activist, songwriter and leading force in the revival of Scottish folk music.

From an English orphanage and the draughty corridors of Cambridge to overseeing the capitulation of the Italian army in WWII and penning the most celebrated Scottish ballad in contemporary folk music, Freedom Come Aa' Ye, this is Henderson's life as told by those who knew him best and loved him most.


www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wb1m0


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 11:44 AM

Friday 15 September BBC Four TV

21:00 Paul McCartney In Concert 2013 Paul McCartney performs Beatles and Wings songs including Eight Days a Week, Hey Jude and Jet, plus tracks from his solo career and his album, New.

22:00 James Taylor In Concert with guest Carol King 1971

22:45 Jackson Browne in concert Old Grey Whistle Test 1976

23:35 Gordon Lightfoot In Concert with Red Shea and Richard Haynes 1972 They perform songs including Summer Side of Life, Saturday Clothes, That's What You Get for Loving Me, Affair on 8th Avenue, If I Could Read Your Mind, Steel Rail Blues, Ten Degrees and Getting Colder, Early Morning Rain, Me and Bobby McGee, Minstrel of the Dawn and Canadian Pacific Trilogy.


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 11:44 AM

Friday 15 September BBC Four TV

21:00 Paul McCartney In Concert 2013 Paul McCartney performs Beatles and Wings songs including Eight Days a Week, Hey Jude and Jet, plus tracks from his solo career and his album, New.

22:00 James Taylor In Concert with guest Carol King 1971

22:45 Jackson Browne in concert Old Grey Whistle Test 1976

23:35 Gordon Lightfoot In Concert with Red Shea and Richard Haynes 1972 They perform songs including Summer Side of Life, Saturday Clothes, That's What You Get for Loving Me, Affair on 8th Avenue, If I Could Read Your Mind, Steel Rail Blues, Ten Degrees and Getting Colder, Early Morning Rain, Me and Bobby McGee, Minstrel of the Dawn and Canadian Pacific Trilogy.


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 25 Nov 23 - 04:38 AM

BBC TV ALBA 23:00 19 November Joni Mitchell

A portrait of Canadian iconic folk singer Joni Mitchell, who arrived in 60s America and was not afraid to go against the tide.

24 days left to watch on iplayer


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 27 Nov 23 - 09:04 AM

A night with Bob Dylan! Saturday 2 December BBC Two
10pm Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom - Bob Dylan and his band
10:50 Bob Dylan: No Direction Home - Martin Scorsese's two part profile, 1/2 and 2/2
2:15am ...Sings Dylan II

And while we're here;
A night with Dionne Warwick. Friday 1 December BBC Two
9pm Don't Make Me Over - Profile
10:30 Dionne Warwick at the BBC
12:00 Fern Britton Meets Dionne Warwick


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 06 Dec 23 - 05:07 PM

BBC Two Arena Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 1/2
Available on iplayer for 26 days
The story of Bob Dylan, from a rock 'n' roll-loving kid in the Midwest to his arrival as a major force in the world of folk music.
Including unseen footage and rare recordings.

BBC Two Arena Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 2/2
Available on iplayer for 26 days
Martin Scorsese continues to explore Bob Dylan's early career. At 23, Dylan confounds expectations
and finds a new musical vocabulary to capture the seismic cultural shift.

BBC Two Bob Dylan; Shadow Kingdom
Available now on iplayer
A showcase of Bob Dylan with his band in an intimate setting as he performs songs from his extensive body of work,
including Forever Young, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, It's All Over Now Baby Blue and many more.


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 11 Dec 23 - 05:06 AM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gyg8rb Story of Carols Oh bring us some figgy pudding! 10 December 2023
Pam Rhodes meets hymn and carol expert Andrew Gant in Oxfordshire to find out about the origins and tradition of Christmas carols.

11 months left to watch Songs of Praise The Story of Carols at Christmas
Pam Rhodes discovers the fascinating stories behind some of our most-loved Christmas carols, and the Songs of Praise presenters reveal their own personal favourites.


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,JoeG
Date: 12 Dec 23 - 04:35 AM

The Hoolie from the Hydro is on iPlayer after being shown on BBC Alba at the weekend. A huge audience for Wolf stone, Trail West, Manran, a Runrig tribute featuring two members of the band with other musicians and much more. Second part is due to be shown between Xmas & New Year I believe


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 17 Dec 23 - 07:05 AM

BBC ALBA Remembering the life of Jonathan MacDonald. 12 days left to watch. In Gaelic with English subtitles

In 2016, Blas Festival recognised the contribution of the exceptional Jonathan MacDonald of Skye to traditional music, after his induction into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. This film commemorates Jonathan’s life with his stories, plus those of family and friends. It spans his life from childhood days, highlights those who made an impression on him and features notable events in his life.


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 01:17 AM

BBC ALBA Hoolie 2023

Scotland’s biggest night of traditional music, Hoolie 2023, celebrates Runrig’s 50 years of musical legend. The musical celebration includes Scottish supergroup Mànran, Celtic rockers Wolfstone, festival favourites Trail West plus an array of special guests. Presented by Julie Fowlis and Coinneach Macleod, the Hebridean Baker.
Less

Episode 1 of 2 First shown 9pm 10 Dec 2023 Available for 18 days
Episode 2 of 2 22:00 30 December 2023 Continuing the celebration of Runrig. Featuring music from Mànran, Wolfstone, Trail West, Nati and guests.


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 01:27 AM

BBC ALBA Iorram (Boat Song) 3 days left to watch

Across the islands of the Outer Hebrides, voices from the past tell stories of the sea. A cinema documentary entirely in Scottish Gaelic, Iorram (Boat Song) is a lyrical portrait of life in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, past and present.

Director Alastair Cole takes the audience on an immersive journey into the heart and soul of a 1000-year-old community, blending archive sound recordings of voices from the past with visuals of island life today and an original score by acclaimed folk musician Aidan O’Rourke. 1 hour, 29 minutes


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week 2023
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 03:49 PM

BBC 4 Lucy Worsley's Christmas Carol Odyssey 27 days to watch

In this festive treat featuring the Kingdom Choir and Hampton Court Choir, Lucy Worsley reveals that there’s much more to our best-loved carols than meets the eye. She reveals how their stories add up to a special kind of history of Christmas itself. In the ancient past, the wassail, a pagan fertility ritual, gave us door-to-door carol singing. Wassailing was also an integral part of an older midwinter festival that was adopted by Christianity when it came to Britain, and was rebranded as ‘Christmas’.

Religion, however, soon turned its back on carols. They were far too frivolous for the Puritans, who wanted to ban Christmas altogether. French Catholics on the other hand didn’t mind fun and frolics, and Lucy crosses the channel to learn a French renaissance jig, written by a dancing priest in the 16th century. The tune she dances to went on to become the carol Ding Dong Merrily on High in the 19th century.

In strict Protestant Britain, the carol survived outside the Church and new ones turned up in some surprising places. Lucy visits the British Library, where she discovers an 18th-century children’s book that contains a little memory game called The Twelve Days of Christmas. Christmas carols could also be politically dangerous and subversive. British Catholics were oppressed for generations after the Reformation, but one Catholic scribe, John Francis Wade, hid a coded message of support for a Jacobite rebellion in the carol O Come All Ye Faithful.

Eventually, the Church of England couldn’t resist the power of the carol, and finally opened its doors to all of them, thanks to a chance pairing of words and music in Hark the Herald Angels Sing, performed in the programme by the renowned gospel ensemble, The Kingdom Choir. In the 20th century, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s passion for English folk music took him to the villages of Surrey. Here, Lucy meets a folk singer who tells the tale of an elderly farm labourer, Henry Garman, who sang a tune for Vaughan Williams, which became O Little Town of Bethlehem.

Finally, in the snowy Austrian Alps, Lucy discovers the simple story of a young parish priest with a poem in search of a tune. When he found one, the result was Silent Night. During the First World War, this simple carol would become a hymn for peace during the famous Christmas truce of 1914. Silent Night also reminds us that carols are, and have always been, ‘popular music’, music for the people, fulfilling an enduring need to celebrate and sing together at Christmas.


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week
From: DaveRo
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 02:36 PM

Bernstein Night BBC 4 10th December 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b/2023/12/10

This was couple of weeks ago, available on iPayer until mid-January. It's all worth watching (apart from the Levin interview) though some clips were repeated in several programmes; I began to feel quite sorry for José Carreras!

But if you're into Mahler I particularly enjoyed Bernstein on Mahler
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tc60

This is Bernstein in full pedagogical mode, explaining how the folk tales of Des Knaben Wunderhorn became a song cycle, and was reworked into the syphonies. Also how Mahler's suppressed jewishness influenced his music. Not all talking - lots of music!


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 22 Oct 24 - 08:41 AM

Bob Dylan:
Shadow Kingdom - 2023
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001t5bk

No Direction Home - 2005
[currently available for about a month]
Part 1
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074sgb
Part 2
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074sgc


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 22 Oct 24 - 08:44 AM

Available for over a year

Burns Night 2024
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001vqpc/burns-night-2024

Blues Night - 1985
six episodes
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01m1s2n/episodes/guide

The Call of the Pipes - 2016
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07w92d9/the-call-of-the-pipes

Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance - 2022
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0015f6r/steps-of-freedom-the-story-of-irish-dance

The Devil's Music - Series 2 - 1979 :
A historical exploration of black American Blues music.
Episode 1 n.a. on iPlayer
Sonny Blake, Sam Chatmon, Houston Stackhouse and Booker White.
Episode 2
discovering that Blues songs were often based on the singers' home town.
Episode 3
The deeper significance of the Blues lies in its deep symbolic message of togetherness and acknowledgement of a shared experience.
Episode 4
electric Blues and Rhythm and Blues - the form that has generally become know as Chicago Blues.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lfs2m/episodes/guide
clips
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lfs2m/clips

[episodes 1 2 3 & 4 "Alexis Korner delves into the world of American Blues music" - 1979
are on a YouTube playlist
The Devil's Music (mostly blues documentaries)
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsY6VJc9zDqnsPa2kjyc-jYJHB-Ltg20t]


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 22 Oct 24 - 08:46 AM

Transatlantic Sessions
Currently Series 6 (2013) is available to watch again :
Aly Bain, dobro ace Jerry Douglas and their all-star house band(Mike McGoldrick/Donald Shaw/Danny Thompson/James Mackintosh) host,,,
1 - Karen Matheson, Cara Dillon, Andy Irvine, Aoife O'Donovan, Teddy Thompson, Ewan McLennan.
2 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, Maura O'Connell, Julie Fowlis, Tim O'Brien.
3 - Russ Barenberg, John McCusker.
4 - Phil Cunningham.
5 - John Doyle, Allan MacDonald.
6 - Karen Matheson, Maura O'Connell, Aoife O'Donovan, Tim O'Brien, Andy Irvine.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gtlnv/episodes/guide
clips
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gtlnv/clips


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Subject: RE: BBC TV This week
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 22 Oct 24 - 08:50 AM

BBC TV Collections pages


The Tales of Folk
A collection of traditional folk tunes blending timeless melodies and stories.
Repeats seem to be available on iPlayer at various times but the BBC doesn't seem to advertise them so keep checking.

Bruce Springsteen sings songs made famous by Pete Seeger in the 1950s.
- 2008

Joan Baez performs live at the BBC Television Theatre, London, in 1965.

Portrait of iconic folk singer Joni Mitchell who blazed a trail in 60s America.
- 2023

A performance from 1970 by celebrated singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell.

Legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins performs songs from throughout her career.
-

1966 concert by American folk singer Judy Collins, featuring Turn Turn Turn.

The Barnsley singer-songwriter Kate Rusby delivers her own brand of new and traditional folk.
- 2015

A collection of performances that highlight the wit and intelligence of Kirsty MacColl. - 2024

The Boxed Set : Kirsty MacColl's last television concert, filmed in Glasgow in March 2000.

Concert featuring folk legend Martin Carthy and some of his most important collaborators.
- 2002

American folk singers Peter, Paul and Mary in concert at the Southport Theatre. - 1983

American folk singer Pete Seeger in a concert recorded during a visit to England in 1964.

Two stars of folk-rock music, Richard and Linda Thompson, sing songs about the night.
- 1981

A jam-packed journey through the most popular Welsh folk music of recent decades. - 2024

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023m3p



more TV collections to check.
They do contain overlaps\duplicates.

BBC Four Sessions
[nothing currently available]
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006ylqn/episodes/guide

Jools Holland's Top Picks
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024pjt

Legendary & Live
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gxmz

Rock & Indie
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09bkm3v

The Blues
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01m79bn

Vintage Music & Performance
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w2l3


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Oct 24 - 06:53 PM

BBC iplayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074sgb/arena-bob-dylan-no-direction-home-part-1 Available for 1 month
Arena Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 1 Duration 115 mins First shown 9pm 26 Sep 2005
The story of Bob Dylan, from a rock 'n' roll-loving kid in the Midwest to his arrival as a major force in the world of folk music. Including unseen footage and rare recordings.
Part one ends with what seems to be the dawn of a new generation - Dylan, hands intertwined with musician Pete Seeger, the Freedom Singers and Odetta singing Blowin' in the Wind at the closing night of the Newport Folk Festival in 1963.

BBC iplayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074sgc/arena-bob-dylan-no-direction-home-part-2 Available for 1 month
Arena Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 2 Duration 90 mins First shown 9pm 27 Sep 2005
He is already on the move, finding a new musical vocabulary to capture the complexity of a seismic cultural shift. He injects a heightened sense of poetry into his writing and adds electricity to his music, electricity that now seems inevitable but at the time saw him labelled a sell-out and a traitor.
Scorsese delicately balances Dylan's internal world with signpost images from the external world. Scorsese takes the time to let viewers really see the music unfold in revelatory concert performances.


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 18 Nov 24 - 09:26 AM

Sky Arts TV - which is now a free service

7pm Saturday 23 November Both Sides Now
Joni Mitchell Live at the Isle of Wight Festival

A performance in front of a disgruntled audience
which, I believe, she won over.


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 19 Nov 24 - 08:18 AM

Join Bob Harris as he introduces the 58th annual Country Music Association Awards from Nashville.
Hosted by Luke Bryan, Peyton Manning and Lainey Wilson, the awards
take place at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena in Tennessee, USA, on 21 November.

Hear this programme on BBC Sounds, and watch The 58th Annual CMA Awards on BBC iPlayer following
its live broadcast for the very first time on BBC iPlayer from 1.50-4am UK time on Thursday 21 November.

BBC Four also broadcasts a 90 minute highlights show later this week. 22:15 29 November 2024
Luke Bryan, Peyton Manning and Lainey Wilson present highlights from the 58th annual Country Music Awards from Nashville.


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Dec 24 - 03:11 PM

BBC Four 1 December 2024 and BBC iplayer

19:00 Folk America at the Barbican 10. Roger McGuinn Duration 20 mins First shown 10pm 1 Mar 2009 Available for 29 days
Concert which recalls the heady days of the 1960s folk revival, centring upon the singer-songwriter talents to emerge from the clubs of New York's Greenwich Village and beyond.
Hosted by singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, it features Village originals Judy Collins, Roger McGuinn, Eric Andersen and Carolyn Hester, performing songs from their own repertoire
and from their contemporaries who contributed to such an extraordinary songbook.

19:20 Ralph McTell The Old Grey Whistle Test 38 minutes Available for 30 days
Bob Harris introduces Ralph McTell in concert at the BBC Television Theatre in London's Shepherds Bush in 1976.


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 06 Dec 24 - 04:25 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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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Dec 24 - 02:31 PM

BBC ALBA 23:35 Tuesday 9 December Elephant Sessions Binneas - Na Trads Series 9 Episode 9 of 9 21 minutes
Roghainn bho oidhche mhòr duaisean Na Trads 2022. A nochd ceòl bho na Elephant Sessions. 
Musical highlights from the Trad Awards 2022 from Elephant Sessions.
See Binneas - Na Trads website for clips and 5 episodes available now and 7 future episodes in the future.


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Dec 24 - 02:55 PM

BBC iplayer ALBA Hoolie 2024; Scotland’s biggest night of traditional music, Hoolie 2024 commemorates 100 years of Scottish music featuring a star-studded line-up of some of the most successful bands in the country. Each marking their own milestone year, Capercaillie, Skerryvore, Mànran, RURA and Talisk celebrate a combined century of Scottish traditional music with an array of special guests.

Episode 1 First shown 9pm 8 Dec 2024 Available for 1 month Duration 89 mins
Episode 2 Saturday 28 Dec 2024 21:00


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Dec 24 - 04:55 PM

Sorry, but this one escaped! Sky Documentaries - Catch up via Now

9pm Saturday 21 December Paul Simon; Restless Dreams Two hour exploration
Concludes 9pm 22 December Two and a half hours


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