Radio Ballads - documentaries

Subject: Radio Ballads - features ..
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 19 Apr 15 - 08:52 AM

As further research into the Rradio Ballad genre - we are seeking the following recordings please ...

* Jim Lloyd 'Folk on 2' - Wednesday July 6th 1988

* Mark Radcliffe 'Folk Show' - The Great War
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lp2m9

Also does anyone know where the scripts are for the following - it may be possible to re-record them...

Two more lost radio ballad / operas:

http://research.culturalequity.org/home-radio.jsp

* Stone of Tory, 1950. A full-scale ballad opera, broadcast from Dublin, featuring Irish rural singers and a cast from the Abbey Theatre.

* Over the Sea to Skye, 1951. A ballad opera on the flight of Prince Charlie through the Highlands, with Ewan MacColl and a cast of Scots and Hebridean folk singers.

Thank you -

CJB.

Subject: RE: Radio Ballads - documentaries
From: GMGough
Date: 19 Apr 15 - 10:02 AM

CJB - please check your PM

Subject: RE: Radio Ballads - documentaries
From: ChrisJBrady
Date: 19 Apr 15 - 02:23 PM

Re: other Radio Ballads of interest:

[GMGough] has reminded me that there is another influential Radio Ballad that seriously needs rescuing:

"Last Shift" Radio Ballad was broadcast as part of The Andy Kershaw Show on BBC Radio 1 on 2nd June 1997.

[GMGough] opines "Last Shift" was a BBC studio recording based on Richard Thompson's "Industry". It seems that the broadcast was far more than a run through of the CD, but was presented in the style of a (MacColl) Radio Ballad."

http://www.siiye.co.uk/E7/PAGE_199.html

Does anyone have a copy please?

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Then there is:

Priscilla Bigadyke - see:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jpkx3

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/lincolnshire/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_9409000/9409650.stm

Again does anyone have a copy of the radio prog. please?

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With regards to "The Man Who Went To War" from 1944 the latest information is at:

http://music.ku.edu/%E2%80%9Cnon-extant%E2%80%9D-recording-langston-hughes-ballad-opera-found

A photo of the cast is at:

http://bbcradio3.tumblr.com/page/5 - scroll to the bottom

Efforts are being made to persuade the BBC to air this definitive programme again - 70 years after its first airing in 1944.

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?&q=%22man+who+went+to+war%22#search

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CJB

Subject: RE: Radio Ballads - documentaries
From: GUEST,CJB666
Date: 09 Oct 20 - 05:51 PM

Last Shift ...

Does anyone have this programme please?

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/21133a4e350e4c588433b434b8732373

Subject: RE: Radio Ballads - documentaries
From: r.padgett
Date: 10 Oct 20 - 02:07 AM

Log in to receive PMs is the cry (not me btw)

Ray

Subject: Radio Ballads - Missing Ballads
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 07 May 26 - 08:09 AM

Here’s three missing Radio Ballads - one only aired once, one aired twice and one not at all.

https://archive.org/details/radio-ballads-three-lost-ballads

The Iron Box x1

Romeo and Juliet x2

Off Limits x0

See the respective documents on Archive.

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Subject: RE: Radio Ballads - documentaries
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 May 26 - 03:52 PM

CJB - before starting new threads, please use the filter to see if there are previous threads you can add to. I moved your message here and closed the other thread.

We try to keep the number of new threads down - it helps people find things.