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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 10 Apr 25 - 05:43 AM The BBC page about loss of access to Sounds outside the UK If you live outside the UK, how you listen to BBC radio will change, starting from spring 2025. Instead of using BBC Sounds, you’ll be able to use a new service at BBC.com and on the BBC app. BBC Studios has launched these all-new audio environments, tailored to outside UK audiences. The BBC’s content will remain available on other international podcast platforms. International listeners will no longer be able to use the BBC Sounds app and website from spring 2025. You can find out more about these changes on the bbc.com website. Advice for UK Listeners travelling abroad For listeners who reside in the UK, you will still be able to use the BBC Sounds mobile app when you are abroad. Check our FAQ for further info: Can I use BBC Sounds when I travel outside the UK? Why are we making these changes? BBC Sounds is a UK licence fee funded service. To offer better value for our UK listeners, BBC Sounds will be repositioned and made available exclusively to UK audiences. BBC Studios is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC and is focused on bringing our trusted, world class journalism and storytelling to international audiences. This includes BBC audio content on bbc.com and the BBC app, which will be focused to international listeners. Support for listeners Outside the UK If you live outside of the UK and have a query regarding listening to BBC radio and audio content, please visit the support page at bbc.com where you can find help and contact their support team. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/listening-outside-the-uk/outside-uk-changes |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: DaveRo Date: 10 Apr 25 - 06:58 AM More, but not much more yet, about listening outsude the UK in this thread |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 10 Apr 25 - 08:26 AM Why are some radio programmes and podcasts not available? Due to rights limitations, not all BBC content can be made available to international users. This includes BBC music radio stations as well as some podcasts. We endeavour to provide a comprehensive listening experience to our audience with hundreds of podcasts available. We will continually be adding more content. What does this mean for third party platforms that previously carried BBC podcasts and audio? These changes only impact BBC platforms, as BBC content will remain available on third-party platforms outside the UK. How can I search for specific audio content? You can search for specific audio content using keywords, titles or contributors in the search bar at the top of the BBC app or BBC.com website. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Date: 10 Apr 25 - 04:15 PM but as far as I can see, (and the BBC refuse to eplain what is happening or why) a very limited ENGLISH range of stations will still be available- NO Scotland, NO Wales, NO Ulster NO Newcastle- no Cornwall- no Kent just the view (and the music) prescribed by London- do tell nme if I've got this wrong- the BBC will not |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Apr 25 - 05:11 AM BBC Radio Scotland Shetland Folk Festival Preview Available for 5 days Eva Runciman hears from the visiting acts making the trip to Shetland in May for the 43rd Shetland Folk Festival. BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Thursday 20:00 Anna Massie with the very best of folk and roots music from Scotland and beyond. 17 April 2025 Martin Green and Miwa Nagato-Apthorp 24 April A Shetland Music Special 01 May 2025 Mountain Music Travelling Folk Deirdre Graham with the very best of folk and roots music from Scotland and beyond. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 16 Apr 25 - 11:27 AM BBC Radio3 Composer of the Week Ruth Crawford Seeger Released On: 14 March 2025 Available for over a year Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) had multiple lives. As Ruth, she was an aspiring poet and teacher, who longed to become a mother. Crawford the composer wrote some of the most daring pages of 20th-century American music, granting her a place among the group of the 'Ultra-Modernists'. And, as the matriarch of the Seeger dynasty, she collected and arranged countless pieces from treasures of the folk tradition. With Kate Molleson, discover the extraordinary life and work of a major American composer, in a story of creative experimentations, of family bonds, and most of all, of joy in music-making, accompanied by the memories of Crawford's daughter and folk legend, Peggy Seeger. For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028k1v |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 16 Apr 25 - 06:06 PM Thanks henryp. I found this link worked better for the 1hr 40 min Ruth Crawford Seeger programme. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0kxwx88 Music Featured: Little Waltz Five Songs to Poems by Carl Sandburg (1, Home Thoughts; 2, White Moon) Theme and Variations Selection from American Folk Songs for Children Diaphonic Suite No 2 for bassoon and cello Kaleidoscopic Changes on an Original Theme, Ending with a Fugue Diaphonic Suite No 3 for Flute Whirligig Preludes for Piano Caprice Sonata for Violin and Piano Trad: Prisoner Blues Music for Small Orchestra Marion Bauer: Four Piano Pieces Selection from 19 American Folk Songs for piano Three Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg Diaphonic Suite No 4 for oboe and violoncello Three Chants for Female Chorus String Quartet Diaphonic Suite No 1 for oboe Selection from Animal Folk Songs for Children Preludes for Piano Two Ricercare to poems by Hsi Tseng Tsiang Peggy Seeger: How I Long For Peace Selection from American Folk Songs for Christmas Andante for strings Trad: "New River Train” Trad: "Midnight Special" Trad: "Irene (Goodnight, Irene)" Charles Seeger: John Hardy Piano Study in Mixed Accents Suite No 1, for five wind instruments and piano Elizabeth Cotten: "Freight Train" Rissolty, Rossolty Piano Sonata Diaphonic Suite for two clarinets Piano Study in Mixed Accents (Version 3) Suite for Wind Quintet Five Canons, for piano Peggy Seeger: "Everything Changes" For full information about each of the hour long episodes start at episode one. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028k1t |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 18 Apr 25 - 09:01 AM Our Sacred Harp - April 2025 Heart and Soul - BBC World Service Sacred Harp pioneer and former punk frontman, Tim Eriksen, takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing – an American choral tradition experiencing a resurgence across the US and in Europe. All people and all faiths are welcome. As a new edition of the songbook approaches publication, Tim explores why this music is drawing more singers and how it’s managing to remain inclusive despite increasing political polarisation in the wider culture. Sacred Harp is sung a-cappella in four-part harmony - a non-performative music where everyone takes a turn to lead and groups gather anywhere from churches to community centers and pubs. Songs were first published in a book of psalms in Georgia in 1844 and in 2025 a new edition will publish a record number of compositions submitted by sacred harp singers from all over the world. For Tim Eriksen this is devotional music, but it will mean different things to different people - what’s special about it is the way it ‘transcends differences.’ Sociologist Laura Clawson tells us how the forbearers of the music stipulated that religion, and politics should not come into the ‘hollow square.’ Historically the Sacred Harp community has continued to sing and build bonds through chapters of political polarisation in the US. But how have recent political divides affected the community and how can it continue to remain an inclusive space? Producer: Sarah Cuddon A Falling Tree Production www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6vnp & see Shape Note or Sacred Harp thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=14533 FreddyHeadey |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Apr 25 - 01:01 PM BBC plans to restrict BBC Sounds abroad have been delayed! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Apr 25 - 04:45 AM BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends Clive Anderson is in Glasgow. 19 Apr 2025 Available for over a year With music from Skerryvore (13 minutes - You and I) and Mike McKenzie. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 27 Apr 25 - 11:08 PM BBC World Service The Documentary Podcast Heart and Soul: Our Sacred Harp 18 April 2025 Available now Sacred Harp pioneer and former punk frontman, Tim Eriksen, takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing, an American choral tradition experiencing a resurgence across the US and in Europe. All people and all faiths are welcome. As a new edition of the songbook approaches publication, Tim explores why this music is drawing more singers and how it is managing to remain inclusive despite increasing political polarisation in the wider culture. Sacred Harp is sung a cappella in four-part harmony, a non-performative music where everyone takes a turn to lead and groups gather anywhere from churches to community centres and pubs. But how have recent political divides affected the community and how can it continue to remain an inclusive space? |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 Apr 25 - 12:32 AM BBC Sounds Heart and Stone 25 Feb 2025 Available for over a year Why do we feel connected to certain places? To certain landmarks, physical sites and imaginary stories? What does our love for city landscapes or the great outdoors say about who we are? These questions began swirling for Meg as a teenager, sat at the top of Old Oswestry Hillfort. And, nearly a decade later, she’s still captivated by them. From battles over development to innovative archaeology projects involving local residents, Heart and Stone visits two, very different hillforts. One in Oswestry, England, and the other on the outskirts of Cardiff. Can the help us understand our relationship with place and heritage? Do they inform our communities, and offer new perspectives on what we call home? Heart and Stone is an Overcoat Media production for BBC Sounds Audio Lab |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 Apr 25 - 05:16 AM BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Soho '65: Les Cousins at 60 18 days left to listen This week, Mark gets transported back to the legendary club Les Cousins in the company of Diana Matheou and journalist Jon Wilks. Les Cousins (known fondly as "The Cousins") was on Soho's Greek Street. After some false starts, it opened 60 years ago today: 16th April 1965. Diana and her husband, the late Andy Matheou, ran the club in the basement of his parents' restaurant. Thanks to Andy's instincts as a booker, and the club's all-night events, it became central to the swinging London folk scene of the mid sixties. Paul Simon considered it his 'home gig' in London. Jimi Hendrix played there, as did John Martyn, Nick Drake, Anne Briggs, Martin Carthy, Wizz Jones, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Sandy Denny, Jackson C. Frank, Al Stewart and Alexis Korner. Van Morrison appeared in the early hours and was paid just £3. Around England on St. George's Day 25 days left to listen Mark hops around an imaginary map of England, with songs and tunes for St. George's Day. 30 April 2025 21:00 Acoustic sounds, with Niall McCabe in session County Mayo songwriter Niall McCabe plays live, accompanied by John McCusker. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 28 Apr 25 - 06:46 AM From Radio 4 Extra Compression versus Art Trevor Cox asks whether compression can detract from our enjoyment of recorded music. Does it matter that what we hear may not be the same as what the musicians first heard in the studio? How important is high quality reproduction? ++ Poetry Extra - Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets - Yorkshire Katie Edwards examines place and identity in her native county. Ever since she found herself mocked in academic circles for her broad South Yorkshire accent, Katie's made it her mission to celebrate her linguistic heritage. She travels round what was historically England's largest county discovering a huge range of dialect and dialect poetry. She meets with members of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, hears how dialect has evolved in different parts of Yorkshire, finds out what's been lost down the years and discovers a fresh passion for using Yorkshire dialect among several young poets in the region. From Ilkley Moor Bah Tat (Yorkshire's unofficial national anthem) via the industry and land that spawned much of the dialect, to poets using it as part of various types of social activism, Katie gets a real sense of a county in which dialect is still very much an important part of identity. Producer: Iain Mackness |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 11 May 25 - 07:28 PM Coming up this week The Song Detectorists - 2025 The Essay - Radio 3 Matthew Bannister travels across England to find out about the music discovered in County Record Offices and reimagined for the 21st Century by the folk musician and academic Nancy Kerr. Matthew Bannister has been the host of Folk On Foot, a podcast which explores folk music and its connection with landscape in the UK, since 2018 and has often wondered about where “folk music” comes from. When he heard about Nancy Kerr’s involvement in a new project, Music, Heritage, Place he wanted to know more. Researchers from Royal Holloway and Newcastle University have been collaborating on an AHRC funded project sending out researchers, the “song detectorists”, to sift through the archives held in County Record Offices across England looking for music. They’ve returned with musical gems that Nancy Kerr has arranged and the discoveries are offering new insights into the way that music was shared and enjoyed in the past outside of the places historians and musicologists have traditionally expected to find it. 1. Norfolk Matthew Bannister is in Norwich to visit the Norfolk County Record Office where researchers have found some remarkable manuscripts including an 18th century music book from a village band in Mileham and a ballad written by a woman ousted from her home in the 17th century. Nancy Kerr has made new musical arrangements for her band The Melrose Quartet. As dusk falls, Matthew visits the remains of the magnificent Hales Hall deep in the Norfolk countryside. We hear from Stephen Rose of Royal Holloway and Bridget Yates a local researcher and music performed by the Melrose Quartet: Nancy Kerr, James Fagan, and Jess and Richard Arrowsmith. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br4b 2. Wakefield Matthew Bannister visits Nostell Priory, a grand Palladian house just outside Wakefield, which was the home of Louisa Winn from about 1819. Louisa was an accomplished musician and transcriber who collected some of her favourite tunes in a book - including piano arrangements of Rossini operas and an intriguing French Canadian song that hints at global connections. In the grand saloon, Matthew meets Simon McCormack the house’s curator who shows him Louisa Winn’s piano and allows him to pluck a harp string. Andrew Frampton, a pianist and researcher at Newcastle University takes Matthew to the West Yorkshire Archive Service in Wakefield. to see Louisa’s music book and some of her sketches of Mont Blanc. Andrew plays some of her music, recorded especially at SJE Arts, and we hear from Nancy Kerr about her fascination with the song Danse Canadienne which is performed by the Melrose Quartet: Nancy Kerr, James Fagan, and Jess and Richard Arrowsmith. 3. Cornwall Matthew Bannister is in a pub near Redruth with the singer and Cornish music researcher Hilary Coleman. She tells him about the tradition of carol singing, especially amongst tin miners, which survives in Cornwall today. She and Matthew visit Kresen Kernow, to look at “Eleanor Morgan’s book”,one of the sources used by the Cornish carol collector Davies Gilbert for his carol collection which was published in 1822. The identity of Eleanor Morgan remains a tantalising mystery. Caro Lesemann-Elliot from Royal Holloway talks about Davies Gilbert’s failure to credit the people whose music he collected. There’s a version of one of the carols: Hark Hark, What News the Angels Bring that emerged in Australia. Tin miners from Cornwall emigrated to Australia in the 19th century taking their carols with them. Nancy Kerr brings the original Cornish and migrated Australian versions back together. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br26 4. Hampshire Matthew Bannister visits the village of Nether Wallop in Hampshire which was the home of Richard Pyle, a wool trader who collected music into a tune book that is kept at the Hampshire Archives in Winchester. He meets Sarah Lewin the archivist there who is also a musician with a group that reenacts historical music. Stephen Rose from Royal Holloway University explains why the tune book is so important demonstrating that a small English country village was musically connected to places far beyond its county borders. Nancy Kerr has created a set for her band the Melrose Quartet that explores the music in the book including a new version of what Richard Pyle calls Evening Hymn which is an arrangement of Tallis' Canon. New words draw on Nether Wallop’s location in the Test Valley, where Richard Adam’s novel Watership Down was set. The new version becomes Silverweed Hymn to Richard Pyle's canon. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br8q 5. Newcastle Matthew Bannister is allowed a very rare glimpse of Henry Atkinson’s tune book from 1695. He’s with Steph Carter and Kirsten Gibson from Newcastle University. The book is kept at the Northumberland Archives at the Woodhorn Museum on the site of an old coal mine in Ashington. Henry Atkinson was a hostman, a member of a cartel of businessmen in Newcastle who controlled the buying and selling of coal. He was also a musician and collected his favourite fiddle tunes handwritten in a small book. Although considered very precious now Steph and Kirsten tell Matthew that books like Henry Atkinson’s were quite common. Music making was a sociable activity and many more people were musically active far away from the big cultural centres of London and the University towns than has been previously understood. Music from the book has been arranged by Nancy Kerr and is performed by The Melrose Quartet: Nancy Kerr, James Fagan, and Jess and Richard Arrowsmith. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bsl6 "Kirsten Gibson, Professor of Early Modern Music and Culture at Newcastle University, says This project is vital for reframing our understanding of the musical lives of people beyond London and for telling new stories about music-making beyond the well-studied musical centres and with a broader range of people not studied before." “From the histories of sacred song, industry and global migration uncovered in Cornwall’s village carol collections, to a 17th-century coal merchant’s “bible” of classic Northumbrian fiddle tunes, across five counties and three centuries – we are sure listeners will hear something new in these musical gems”. Press Office Newcastle University |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 12 May 25 - 06:53 PM Folk: Where are all the Black British folk songs? Instrumental: Black British Trailblazers - April 2025 available to approx January 2026 A constant in centuries of storytelling, folk music is widely considered the sound of Britain’s past - but whose past are we talking about? Has the history of Black people in British folk has been overlooked? Exploring a genre previously felt not for her, Mia Thornton asks if culture can be owned? And if so, who decides what to protect? Angeline Morrison discusses re-storying British folk music, and reflects on a shocking accusation made after the release of her album The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of The Black British Experience. Musician and researcher Marie Bashiru challenges assumptions about folk instrumentation and traces the origins of the banjo back to West Africa. And broadcaster and music journalist Kevin Le Gendre examines how different cultural forms of folk music, like Calypso, have influenced and shaped the broader genre. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0krcb3s |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 13 May 25 - 03:44 AM Sorry ^^ missing\wrong links above in The Song Detectorists - 2025 should be 1 Norfolk www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br0n 2 Wakefield www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br4b |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 May 25 - 04:30 AM BBC Radio 4 Front Row 12 May 2025 Available for over a year Suzanne Vega has just released her first album of all-new material for nearly a decade. "Flying With Angels" continues her folk-influenced sound and introduces influences of soul as well as a song in tribute to Bob Dylan's "I Want You". She performs in the studio with guitarist Gerry Leonard. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 May 25 - 03:12 AM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe 7 May Happy birthday, Christy Moore 23 days left to listen With requests and dedications for Irish legend, Christy Moore, who turns 80 today. 14 May 9:00pm An acoustic trip, with Filkin's Drift In 2023, Seth Bye and Chris Roberts hiked all 870 miles of the Wales Coast Path. They gave a concert on almost every night of the tour. The adventure has inspired a new album, Glan, and they perform music from the record on this week's Folk Show. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 May 25 - 07:20 PM 5 May 2025 available for approx 28 days BBC Radio Ulster - The Ralph McLean Show Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison Ralph remembers Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison with classic tracks and rare outtakes from the legendary live album originally released in 1968. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bs4m |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 May 25 - 07:32 PM May 2025 available for approx 28 days BBC Radio Ulster - The Ralph McLean Show Mike McCartney - A Box of Scaffold Ralph talks with Mike McCartney about A Box of Scaffold, a new deluxe box set that traces his time in the legendary Liverpool hit making satire group. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bzsv |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 20 May 25 - 12:56 AM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show 9:00pm 21 May Martin Carthy completes a full circle Today is folk legend Martin Carthy's 84th birthday. It's also release day for his new album, which revisits the tracks of his classic 1965 debut. Martin and his daughter, Eliza Carthy, toast the moment and reflect on Martin's life and the music he's made in the intervening 60 years. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 25 May 25 - 05:51 PM BBC Radio 3 21:45 Music Planet 31 May 2025 Peggy Seeger’s Return Journey Lopa Kothari chooses tracks from her vast music collection, spanning from freshly-released Colombian cumbia from Houston-based band Son Bayoú, to Galician folk music with the new project from Carme López, Carmela. Plus, a special session track from Ghanean Fra Fra artist Florence Adooni with her band, recorded at the BBC’s Maida Vale earlier this month. And, for our Return Journey feature, American folk icon Peggy Seeger guides us through two of her favourite tracks - one for the road, and one that reminds her of home - ahead of embarking on her final-ever tour, celebrating more than 70 years of music and activism. 07 June 2025 Laura Wilkie & Ian Carr in session Kathryn Tickell presents a live session from Maida Vale featuring fiddle player Laura Wilkie and guitarist Ian Carr. Originally from Tain in the Highlands, Laura is a sought-after musician rooted in the Highland fiddle tradition, with influences ranging across a wide spectrum of genres. Ian Carr, an acclaimed English folk guitarist and composer, is known for his distinctive, innovative approach to traditional music. Together, they perform selections from Laura’s latest album, Vent, which draws inspiration from ancient waulking songs - traditional work songs sung by women in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland as they rhythmically beat tweed to soften and shrink it. Reimagined here as instrumental fiddle pieces, these melodies retain the songs’ original spirit of community, strength, humour, and shared knowledge. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 28 May 25 - 05:23 PM Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé - 20 May 2025 Front Row Talking about her 2025 North Carolina album What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow made with Justin Robinson. She talks of her time learning from Joe Thompson and the influence of Etta Baker. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cdh0 first item ~13 min |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 14 Jun 25 - 03:11 PM On BBC Radio 4 right now. Will be available to listen to again on BBC Sounds Here We Go! The Art of the Football Chant "Sociologist, musician and Millwall fan Les Back is obsessed with the symphony of the spontaneous folk song of football chants. He’s on a tour of British clubs to chart the rise (and fall) of these chants and discover why they’re an important barometer of social change. He starts at The Den, his home club of Millwall in south-east London where he meets with former player Tony Witter (’94-’98). He and Tony discuss recordings they made during the 90s to see what’s changed in terms of the relationship between players and fans. Les travels from London to Glasgow to speak to fans, players and musicians from Norwich City, Dulwich Hamlet, AFC Wimbledon, Newcastle United, Rangers, Celtic and Hibernian. He wants to know what their club chants tell us about their hyper-local identity and whether the folk musician Martin Carthy is right. Are chants “the one surviving embodiment of an organic living folk tradition"? With thanks to Andy Lawn, Ceylon Andi Hickman, Charlotte Robson, Dan Hancox, Davie and Joan, Louis Abbott, Martin Carthy and Tony Witter. Also to David Taylor, Mark Burman and Jonny Hurst. Image: Dulwich Hamlet Pepper Army taken by Liam Asman. Presented by Professor Les Back Produced by Alexandra Quinn with Freya Hellier Sound Mix by Jon Calver Executive Producer: Jane Long A Hidden Flack production for BBC Radio 4" |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 14 Jul 25 - 04:51 PM A Festival of Dialect - 2020 Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets repeated on the 4Extra series 'Poetry Extra'. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fkv8 Notes from the original programme: In this first programme of the series, actor and writer Catherine Harvey heads to Blackpool for the annual Dialect Festival, which took place before lockdown. The festival is a celebration of dialect speaking and writing - with participants from as far afield as Cornwall and Northumberland, Kent and Cumbria, gathering for a weekend of poetry, storytelling and song. Catherine catches up with festival founder Sid Calderbank at a hotel on the seafront to discuss this unique meeting of dialect enthusiasts, and enjoys dialect performances from all over England. She talks to Rod Dimbleby, Chair of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, about Joseph Wright and the first Dialect Dictionary, and to writer and historian Paul Salveson about the future of dialect in our modern world, before the Festival draws to a close at nearby Little Marton windmill - now a museum to local dialect writer Allen Clarke (aka Teddy Ashton) whose work once inspired Tolstoy. original series www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3m9sh/episodes/guide Randomly a programme gets repeated as part of the series Poetry Extra. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qdjcn/episodes/player Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary https://archive.org/details/englishdialectdi05wrig/page/n2/mode/1up |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 22 Jul 25 - 02:53 PM available for ~3 weeks- Radio Scotland - July 2025 Travelling Folk Dick Gaughan Anna Massey sits down with folk royalty in the form of singer and songwriter, Dick Gaughan. An icon of Edinburgh's folk scene since the 1960s, a stroke in 2016 left Dick unable to perform. He tells Anna about his musical career and the recent campaign to preserve his remarkable body of work from 1969 to 1983, most of it previously unreleased. We hear some of the music that has influenced him over the years as well as hearing from other artists who have been influenced by Dick including Barbara Dickson, Karine Polwart, Kris Drever, Billy Bragg and Siobhan Miller. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ft8f and the star struck Anna Massey talking to Len Pennie about setting up the interview. AfternoonsThe Arts Mix - Lesley McDowell on Love and Other Poisons, Harvest Director Athina Rachel Tsangari, Anna Massie on Dick Gaughan. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ft87 8 min > skip to ~21:20 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 22 Jul 25 - 08:37 PM cookie back A few Nick Drake programmes on at the moment 6 Music - Artist Collection [there seems to be no episode 3] Brad Pitt: Lost Boy - In Search of Nick Drake - 2004 Hollywood star Brad Pitt tells the story of cult singer-songwriter Nick Drake. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ftpt more reading & info here www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/documentaries/nickdrake/ Five Leaves Left Revisited - 2025 Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien presents a new documentary examining the recording of Five Leaves Left, Nick Drake’s debut LP released in 1969, and the story behind a forthcoming box set. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fy4v Nick Drake Playlist - 2025 Guy Garvey curates a playlist of his favourite Nick Drake records. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fy4x Nick Drake at the BBC - 2025 Featuring the sessions Nick Drake recorded for the BBC in 1969 & 1970 alongside Mackenzie Crook reading his book If Nick Drake Came To My House and Cerys Matthews in conversation with Nick Drake's producer, Joe Boyd. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fy4z Radcliffe and Maconie - Radio 6 - 2025 Mark and Stuart present a feast of great music, celebrate acclaimed singer-songwriter Nick Drake and his debut album 'Five Leaves Left,' and hear from Nick's sister Gabrielle. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fvxn |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 28 Jul 25 - 08:04 PM 21st Century Folk Celebrates Railway 200 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Five people inspire five brand new songs in Radio 2’s 21st Century Folk. To coincide with 'Railway 200' - the 200th anniversary of passenger train travel - all the people and songs are connected to the railways. In this show, Mark Radcliffe reveals the stories behind the songs, which have been written by Findlay Napier, Chris While & Julie Matthews, Bill Ryder-Jones, Kate Rusby and Richard Thompson. They’ve been inspired by Joanne, Tom, Ken, Charlotte & David and Siggy. Joanne volunteers as a steam locomotive fireman on the Llangollen Railway in Wales. She survived a rare form of cancer in 2019 and is an activist for diversity and inclusion within heritage rail. Scottish musician Findlay Napier, who lives on the Isle of Arran, has written Joanne’s song. Findlay performs as a solo artist and as part of folk-rock supergroup, The Magpie Arc. Tom is a railway station foundling. In 1965 he was found as a two-week old baby in the ladies’ waiting room at Reading railway station. He was left well-dressed and tucked under a bench with a spare nappy and bottle. Tom only discovered the full story later in life. Singer-songwriters Chris While and Julie Matthews, from South Yorkshire, are Britain’s longest-enduring female duo. They have played more than 2,500 gigs and appeared on more than 100 albums. Ken has worked on the railways for 50 years and has a train named in his honour. He knew from four years old that he wanted to follow in his dad and grandad’s footsteps, and his family have worked on the railways for a combined 157 years! Ken works for Alstom at their Widnes facility, though he originally comes from Liverpool. His songwriter is Bill Ryder-Jones, co-founder and former lead guitarist with Merseyside band The Coral. Bill has released several solo records and collaborated with artists including Arctic Monkeys, Graham Coxon and Paloma Faith. Charlotte and David live near Bradford. Charlotte was beside a train track, intending to take her own life, when train driver David got out of his cab and spoke to her until she felt able to board the train safely. She later contacted him to say thank you, they began dating, and are now married with children. Their singer-songwriter is Yorkshire’s own Kate Rusby, one of the most successful folk singers of her generation. Kate performs the song alongside her husband, Northern Irish musician Damien O’Kane. Siggy came to the UK from Barbados in 1962 and became a railway worker on the day he arrived. He still works at Elstree & Borehamwood station and, in his free time, enjoys his other passion: cricket. He has bowled for the same cricket club in Enfield since the 1960s and has also played for England’s over-70s. Siggy’s singer-songwriter is folk-rock legend Richard Thompson, a fellow Londoner and cricket fan. 21st Century Folk is partly inspired by the BBC Radio Ballads, in which new folk songs were based on the spoken testimonies of real working people. The pioneering format was created by Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and debuted on the BBC in 1958. The first ever episode was about a heroic train driver called John Axon. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ggd5 available to ~26th August 2025 Song videos https://canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/radio-2-21st-century-folk-2025/ |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 28 Jul 25 - 08:23 PM Train tracks! With folk legend Peggy Seeger The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe - Wed 30th July 2025 An hour of rail-themed music from the past and present. American folk legend Peggy Seeger talks to Mark about the first ever BBC Radio Ballad, The Ballad of John Axon. Peggy created the programme in 1958 with her then husband, Ewan MacColl, and the radio producer Charles Parker. The pioneering programme combined the voices of real working people with original songs about John Axon, a train driver who died when trying to stop a runaway train in Derbyshire. The Radio Ballads have since inspired a new project on Radio 2: 21st Century Folk, which also tells the stories of real people through specially written songs. Peggy also talks about her life, turning 90, and the release of her new and final album, Teleology. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g5ps |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 04 Aug 25 - 07:39 AM BBC Proms: Angeline Morrison - The Sorrow Songs - July 2025 (Folk Songs of Black British Experience) Live at the BBC Proms from the Glasshouse, British folksinger Angeline Morrison with Eliza Carthy, Alex Neilson and The Sorrow Songs Band with untold stories of Black Britain. The concert features musical tales such as the 19th-century 'Unknown African Boy' telling of an enslaved child whose body was washed up on the Isles of Scilly. And 'Black John' - Britain's first Black horticulturalist; or 'The Beautiful Spotted Black Boy', an enslaved child whose vitiligo provoked a patchy complexion and caused him to be paraded as curiosity. Intimate, haunting and expressive this distinctive musical event from Stage Two of the Glasshouse on the banks of the Tyne in Gateshead sits firmly in a tradition, drawing on the essence of English Folk Song. The concert is presented from the stage by Angeline Morrison and introduced by Elizabeth Alker. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g1gk available until ~early October 2025 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 04 Aug 25 - 09:38 AM 'Saturday Morning' - Radio3 - 25 July 2025 8min @ approx 2:30:20 Ahead of her Proms performance at the Glasshouse in Gateshead, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Angeline Morrison chats to Tom about her project "The Sorrow Songs - Folk Songs of Black British Experience". She wrote the album to give musical voice to the stories of Black Britons from through the centuries who she discovered were missing from folk repertoire. Angeline tells Tom how her songs are already starting to make their way into the folk clubs of Cornwall. 7min @ approx 1:50:50 not folk but interesting A century ago, the first electrical recordings were released by major record labels on both sides of the Atlantic, revolutionising the listening experience, allowing people to hear far richer and more nature sounding recordings of their favourite artists and orchestras. We hear from producer and audio restorer Mark Obert-Thorn who has brought together many of the most significant recordings from that time for the Pristine label on a compilation called "1925: Landmarks from the Dawn of Electrical Recording" ["TCHAIKOVSKY, SAINT-SAËNS, BIZET, Chopin, Meyerbeer, Mascagni, Schubert & many more"]. Mark explains why this was the single most important development in recording since its invention by Thomas Edison in 1877 and how it changed the course of musical history. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g1g5 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 04 Aug 25 - 03:57 PM but if you live outside UK, don't waste your time looking - it IS available on an obscure BBC app with NO TIME SHIFT CAPACITY but the BBC in their wisdom have cancelled BBC Sounds for ALL outside UK, including Irish Republic |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 05 Aug 25 - 11:20 AM ^ & for more info & discussion about the removal of 'Sounds' : Tech: BBC service removal? https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=173943 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 12 Aug 25 - 12:18 PM Live at Cropredy 2025 (09/08/2024) Radio Oxford Join us for highlights and live performances from Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2025! Interviews and music Bob Fox Billy Mitchell 0:8:00 Albert Lee 0:19:00 Dave Pegg 0:39:00 Plumhall 0:43:00 Rosalie Cunningham 0:54:00 Joe Broughton 1:04:00 Cropredy Primary School 1:11:00 Trevor Horn 1:17:00 Simon Nicol 1:26:00 The rest is mostly music. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gpk4 _ |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 25 Aug 25 - 02:07 PM On BBC Radio 4 Extra last week. Available for 24 days. The Funeral Singer 'Reverend Kate Bottley investigates the growth of professional funeral singers in Britain.' |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 31 Aug 25 - 07:04 AM Loftus's Sword Dancing Rockstars - July 2025 Secret Tees (BBC Radio Tees) Eve Kennedy explores the rich history of sword dancing in Loftus, including a personal connection. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ls7tmp |
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