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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: FreddyHeadey Date: 08 Apr 21 - 05:45 PM ^^ To clarify as Henry's typing fingers are still in March ,,,, ;) BBC Folk Show Radio 2 9pm Wednesday 7 APRIL 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000tt37 Front Row BBC Radio 4 7.15pm Thursday 8 APRIL 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000twht Open Country BBC Radio 4 3pm Thursday 8 APRIL 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000twh9 + _______________________ Genevieve Tudor 4th April 2021 the final hour of Sunday's Evenings on BBC Radio Shropshire https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09bl4x4 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,matt milton Date: 08 Apr 21 - 05:09 PM Last Sunday night's 'Tim Walker's Folk' show on BBC Radio Lincs was an epic 4 hours' long. Not sure if it normally is?! Anyway, lots to listen to on that while it's on iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09bk210 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 08 Apr 21 - 02:13 PM BBC Folk Show Radio 2 9pm Wednesday 7 March Folk legend Peggy Seeger talks about her new album, The First Farewell. Front Row BBC Radio 4 7.15pm Thursday 8 March Peggy Seeger on the pleasures of working with family on her new album; Liverpool pilots live arts events; Hafsa Zayyan and Francis Spufford on how faith affects their writing. Open Country BBC Radio 4 3pm Thursday 8 March Fiona Mackenzie on the history, music and landscape of the Isle of Canna in the Hebrides. Fiona Mackenzie and her husband, Donald, have lived on the island for six years. Donald is the harbourmaster and Fiona is the archivist for the priceless collection of Gaelic music, photographs and literature stored in Canna House. She's also an accomplished folk singer - the ideal guide for an Open Country visit to the island. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 07 Apr 21 - 04:08 PM BBC Folk Show 9pm Wednesday Radio 2 Today 7 March Folk legend Peggy Seeger talks about her new album, The First Farewell. 14 March Swedish duo First Aid Kit talk with Mark Radcliffe about their shared love of the late, great Leonard Cohen. 21 March Singer Sam Lee talks about his love for the nightingale, which has inspired his new book and a series of night-time performances. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 Mar 21 - 04:15 PM BBC2 TV 9:45pm 13 March 2021 Billie: In Search of Billie Holiday A profile of Billie Holiday from the research of Linda Lipnack Kuehl |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 Mar 21 - 10:51 AM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show 9pm Wednesday; 17 March St. Patrick's Day; Mark plays music from Ireland's talented young acts. 24 March Manchester-Irish Jason Manford sits in and introduces the folk music he loves. 31 March American Rhiannon Giddens and Italian Francesco Turrisi talk about their second album: They're Calling Me Home. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: Felipa Date: 03 Mar 21 - 04:26 PM Karen's segment starting now, 21.25 EST |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: Felipa Date: 03 Mar 21 - 04:22 PM I'm listening to BBC Radio 2 and Karen Mathiesson hasn't been on yet; will she be along later? |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 03 Mar 21 - 10:00 AM It should be classified under Climate Change! On August 21, 2007, the Northwest Passage became open to ships without the need of an icebreaker. According to the Norwegian Polar Institute, this was the first time the Passage has been clear since they began keeping records in 1972. And in 2014 the Nunavik became the first cargo ship to traverse the passage unescorted when it delivered nickel from the Canadian province of Quebec to China. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: DaveRo Date: 03 Mar 21 - 07:59 AM I see that The Terror is classified by the BBC as 'Drama > Horror & Supernatural' |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 03 Mar 21 - 07:18 AM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show 9pm Wednesday; March 3 Scots Gaelic singer Karen Matheson talks about her new solo album, Still Time. March 10 Songwriter and guitarist John Smith talks about his new album, The Fray. March 17 Mark celebrates St. Patrick's Day by playing music from Ireland's thriving scene of talented young acts. Lord Franklin; The first two episodes of 10-part first season of The Terror are on BBC2 TV from 9pm on Wednesday March 3. Faced with sub-zero conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crews of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror are pushed to the brink – and no one is coming to save them. The fate of the real expedition, which set sail in 1845 and led to more than 120 crew members inexplicably disappearing, has warranted a great deal of speculation. After almost 175 years of searching, coincidentally, the ships were discovered by arctic research groups in 2014 and 2016. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 16 Feb 21 - 09:44 AM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show 9pm Wednesday Tomorrow; The best in folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond! February 24; Kathryn Tickell hosts the show from her home in Northumberland. March 3; Scots Gaelic singer Karen Matheson talks about her new solo album, Still Time. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: Steve Shaw Date: 15 Feb 21 - 08:18 PM Many thanks, Freddie. That works. It's getting a bit near bedtime so I'll listen in the morning when I can crank up the Bluetooth speakers. Cheers! |
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Subject: Delia Murphy From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 Feb 21 - 06:26 PM ^^ John Bowman on Delia Murphy : BROADCAST • 08:30 • 14TH FEB 2021 - RTE Radio 1 https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/radio1/11281139 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: Steve Shaw Date: 15 Feb 21 - 01:12 PM Ah, I'll see if I can listen to that. I remember my gran (who died in 1965) singing The Spinning Wheel and Three Lovely Lasses when I was a very little lad. What cherished memories! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Date: 15 Feb 21 - 11:10 AM Not the BBC but John Bowman's weekly programme on RTE radio 1 at 8.30 yesterday Feb was an excellent 30 minute item about Delia Murphy |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 15 Feb 21 - 07:00 AM BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay 9.45 Monday 22 February 2021 Episode 1 of 5 Scotland’s national poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived. 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. “The first time I saw Bessie Smith, it really was like finding a friend…” Mixing biography, fiction, music and memoir, the Makar remembers the electric thrill of identification when, as a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, she was first gifted the music of the Empress. Read by Jackie Kay with Adjoa Andoh |
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Subject: Margaret Fay Shaw From: FreddyHeadey Date: 25 Jan 21 - 10:39 AM Margaret Fay Shaw BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature 24 Jan 2021 Available for over a year - 48 minutes Margaret Fay Shaw's Hebridean Odyssey "Margaret Fay Shaw gave up a privileged upbringing and classical music training in 1920s New York, to live in a remote, Gaelic-speaking community in the Outer Hebrides. Without any knowledge of Gaelic she used her classical training to notate and later record the first proper archive of traditional, unaccompanied song and folklore from the Western Isles. Later she married folklorist John Lorne Campbell. They settled in the Big House on the Isle of Canna and for decades they embarked on recording expeditions throughout the Western Isles. Fay Shaw died in 2004, aged 101 and her priceless archive of song sheets, recordings and photographs is stored on Canna along with her beloved Steinway piano, shipped out specially on a fishing boat from Glasgow. Fiona Mackenzie, one of Scotland's leading Gaelic singers, is curating and digitising this huge collection, owned by the National Trust for Scotland and says it is her dream job. Margaret Fay Shaw's life and work is her inspiration and obsession and she regularly gives talks, illustrated with archive recordings and her own live performance, to bring the story to wider audiences. Recorded on location, Fiona explores the songs and folklore which mean so much to her and which drew her muse from New York to the beautiful but storm-tossed Outer Hebrides. She says the songs of love, lament, work and exile have an enduring relevance. She describes the earliest recordings as “pinpricks of sound”, but says they echo a vanished way of life, “telling us who we are and where we came from”." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: DaveRo Date: 23 Jan 21 - 03:00 AM Nitin Sawhney on Jeff Buckley |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,Anne Lister sans cookie Date: 22 Jan 21 - 05:25 PM Did you catch Nitin Sawhney (sp?) talking about Jeff Buckley in Great Lives? |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: Tattie Bogle Date: 22 Jan 21 - 10:53 AM Dave Milligan He is primarily a jazz musician, as you can hear if you try out any of the tracks on his website here. (It may also explain some of Jim B's analysis!) Husband of harpist Corrina Hewat, and together they perform as Bachue. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 Jan 21 - 09:27 AM BBC Radio 4 14.15 Friday 22 Jan 2021 Islander A radio version of the award-winning a capella musical, with voiced sound effects. Performed and sung by Kirsty Findlay and Bethany Tennick. Winner of Musical Theatre Review's Best Musical Award – Edinburgh Fringe 2019 The two-hander female cast sing all the songs, while weaving, building and layering their voices to create all the sound effects into an expansive, ethereal soundscape for the ears and imagination. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST Date: 05 Jan 21 - 06:05 AM The word 'unique is often misused, although it might be argued that aspects of that bond WERE unique. He certainly had great sympathy for both communities. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,Guest Date: 05 Jan 21 - 03:44 AM How Paul Robeson found his political voice in the Welsh valleys |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,Guest Date: 05 Jan 21 - 03:27 AM "the unique bond he forged with the Scottish mining communities"? He had strong links with the Welsh mining communities, too, so not "unique" at all. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,RA Date: 05 Jan 21 - 02:59 AM BBC Radio Scotland: The Common Struggle of Paul Robeson Listen here Opera singer Andrea Baker examines the life of Paul Robeson and explores the unique bond he forged with the Scottish mining communities. Available for 28 days from today (5th January). |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: FreddyHeadey Date: 04 Jan 21 - 07:36 PM ^ BBC clip 'The Archers' Ryan Kelly (Jazzer) sings Auld Lang Syne.' https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p092t3xk skip to about 0:35 if you don't need to hear him talking about life in Ambridge. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: Steve Shaw Date: 04 Jan 21 - 06:38 AM Yes, I third that. It was wonderful. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: Jos Date: 04 Jan 21 - 06:16 AM I wish Jazzer would be given more chances to sing. I think that is only the third time I have heard him. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Date: 04 Jan 21 - 05:45 AM For unaccompanied singing, Jazzer McCreery did an excellent version of 'Auld Lang Syne' - it was repeated on 'Pick of the Week'- Stuart Msconie chose it & good for him. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Date: 01 Jan 21 - 07:42 AM I should have added IMHO Bonzo but I was making a valid point- I think you should do the same, rather than pointless abuse. Of course people like you think that such supergroups are what 'folk' (spits again) is about and that some people dislike unaccompnied singing, SO WHAT? I never said the song in question should be unaccompanied, but that any 'accompaniment' should be sympathetic to the song. Dave Milligan's was distracting and distracted from Karine Polwart's excellent singing. Maybe he's normally better than this, I speak only of what I heard the other day. I rest my case |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: Bonzo3legs Date: 01 Jan 21 - 06:26 AM Absolute bollocks, songs unaccompanied are mostly very boring indeed. Thank goodness for the legacy of Fairport, Albion Band, Home Service & Steeleye Span. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,jim Bainbridge Date: 01 Jan 21 - 05:37 AM This only demonstrates how the commercial world has come to be the norm in 'folk' (he spits) today. This is a lovely, simple song, and when I read about it, I went to the trouble of looking it up on the player. If you MUST accompany it, such a song deserves a simple and tasteful treatment, and the piano is ideal for it. I make no comment on the 'star-studded' list provided by henryp and having never attended Celtic connections, I have never heard of Dave Milligan, but his tasteless and irrelevant accompaniment to this lovely song was syncopated, arhythmic and often discordant. Original, yes, if that's what you want, and Margaret Attwood, wonderful author though she is, is not a singer, nor do we know how much input she had to this- it bears all the hallmarks of BBC 2020. There seems to be a worldwide movement to complicate and change simple things in all contexts, and this was a perfect example. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 30 Dec 20 - 05:27 AM BBC Radio 4 "Today" 29 December 2020; Specially recorded for guest editor Margaret Atwood, The Parting Glass sung by Karine Polwart, piano by Dave Milligan. I enjoyed it! Dave Milligan "has played a key role in countless projects and performances at Celtic Connections since its inception, most recently as musical director of the festival’s star-studded 25th anniversary opening concert. Other performances include appearances with artists such as Larry Carlton, Mark Knopfler, The McCrary Sisters, Karine Polwart, Trilok Gurtu, Art Farmer, Carol Kidd and Camille O’Sullivan." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: Steve Shaw Date: 29 Dec 20 - 06:13 PM I'm not that keen on this "playlister" challenge, but I do get inspired to contribute once every blue moon, as this morning. Before they started the playlist game they had a "spot the...(tune/venue/composer/etc.)" competition. Over the years I got "read out" about 35 times. You can also suggest something for their "slow moment" at about 11.30. I've only tried that the once, and I succeeded. My suggestion was the Lento from Beethoven's last quartet, Op 135 in F. I've told Mrs Steve that that will be the "going in" music at my cremation! :-) I absolutely love Sibelius, by the way. Keep trying, but don't suggest anything that's too long! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,Joe G Date: 29 Dec 20 - 05:56 PM I've had a mention on that feature of the programme, Steve, but they didn't play my suggestion which was Sibelius Nightride & Sunrise in response to a morning piece (can't remember what now!) |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: Steve Shaw Date: 29 Dec 20 - 05:07 PM I got a request played on Radio 3 this morning on Essential Classics, in the playlist challenge. They wanted stuff do with "five gold rings," and I suggested The Gold Ring Irish jig. They played a rather nice version by the viol player Jordi Savall. I'd actually asked them to play Matt Molloy's version, but hey, a victory! If you can get the show, it was at approx. 10.30 am, an hour and a half in. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: DaveRo Date: 29 Dec 20 - 01:06 PM GUEST wrote: This morning, at the end of the 'Today'programme on BBC radio 4, Karine Polwart sang the 'Parting Glass'You can listen to it here starting at 2:57:00 It follows an interview with Margaret Atwood which starts at 2:49:00. The song is mentioned right at the end of that interview. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST Date: 29 Dec 20 - 12:47 PM This morning, at the end of the 'Today'programme on BBC radio 4, Karine Polwart sang the 'Parting Glass' - almost impossible to concentrate on her fine voice, as there was a totally inappropriate and out of tune accompaniment on piano. Did anyone else hear this ghastly stuff? |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: FreddyHeadey Date: 28 Dec 20 - 07:00 PM Mike Brocken has a few hours of his Folkscene show back on BBC Radio Merseyside. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d79l/episodes It's difficult to tell if it'll be a regular spot. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: FreddyHeadey Date: 27 Dec 20 - 04:43 AM ^^^^ clicky "For disussion on The Turtle Dove, see ,,," thread.cfm?threadid=165823 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,Guest Date: 26 Dec 20 - 11:21 AM Ginge and Cringe know more about authentic Sussex heritage. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 26 Dec 20 - 11:17 AM Boxing Day 5pm BBC Radio 3 Music Planet Kathryn Tickell plays live with her Dad Mike and brother Peter, who plays with Sting and Afro Celt Sound System. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST Date: 26 Dec 20 - 09:25 AM BBC/Sam Lee Don't waste your time- this was typical Sam Lee/BBC neo-mystical nonsense- leave the b... turtle doves alone, they can do without such crap |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 26 Dec 20 - 12:43 AM For disussion on The Turtle Dove, see; Turtle Dove Pilgrimage |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 25 Dec 20 - 03:37 PM Boxing Day 6:07am repeated 5pm BBC RADIO 4 Open Country Frank Turner In 2012 punk and folk singer-songwriter Frank Turner was on top of the world. He had his first gold record, headlined his first arena show, and to top it all off he performed at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. But as the press requests and celebrity party invited poured, Frank chose to step out of the limelight and head home, back to Winchester and the Meon Valley where he spent the first part of his life, to walk the South Downs Way. For this programme Frank returns to the area to find out more about its rich Saxon history and its unique wildlife habitats, and to explore how this area shaped him as a person and as a musician, with songs like 'Take Me Home' and 'Wessex Boy' drawing so strongly from the landscape. There's even time for him to speak to his Mum! Boxing Day 7.30am repeated 5.30pm BBC RADIO 4 Sam Lee; The Turtle Dove Pigrimage Folk singer Sam Lee and William Parsons of the British Pilgrimage Trust, lead 11 pilgrims on a journey across Sussex tracing the origins of the iconic folk song 'The Turtle Dove'. Over a 100 years ago, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams travelled through Rusper, Sussex, collecting the stories and songs of the locals he encountered. He stopped at the Plough Inn, where he set up his Edwardian recording equipment to capture the songs of the pub's landlord, whose crackled voice and haunting melodies can still be heard today. Vaughan Williams transformed one of the humble folk songs, The Turtle Dove, into a choral hit – extracting the song from Sussex and exporting it to the concert halls of London. This Pilgrimage seeks to return the song to the land from which it was taken. Moving through woods, churchyards and village halls, the pilgrims sing as they progress toward the Knepp rewilding estate, where they hope to sing The Turtle Dove to the last remaining colony of turtle doves in Sussex. Along the way, the pilgrims muse on the meaning of pilgrimage in a secular age and the contemporary relevance of this ancient song. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,henryp Date: 08 Dec 20 - 06:41 PM Wed 9/12 BBC Radio 2 21:00 Folk Show - No details Thur 10/12 BBC Radio 4 15:00 Open Country; Kitty Macfarlane and the Somerset Levels Sat 12/12 BBC Radio 4 23:30 Art of Now; A Life in Song (Repeat - available now on BBC Sounds) The singer-songwriter Sean Cooney of the folk group The Young'uns explores the process of writing songs about real people, and the responsibilities involved. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: Bonzo3legs Date: 04 Dec 20 - 12:15 PM A brand new hour long session from the Crynoch Ceilidh Band will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland - 05/12/20 at 7pm https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q4k7 followed by the best of piping music on Pipeline at 9pm https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q4kf already set up to record in Win 10 Task Scheduler! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST Date: 04 Dec 20 - 05:40 AM why do they NEED to?- clarify- they're not too popular in the first introduction area in Scotland- near Lochgilphead..... good programme, though |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week From: GUEST,CJB666 Date: 03 Dec 20 - 12:23 PM They need to re-introduce beavers into Redesdale into the river Rede like they have on Exmoor and elsewhere. |
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