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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 09:48 AM

Sky Arts TV Sunday 2 January 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
RUNRIG: THERE MUST BE A PLACE
From their humble beginnings in 1973 to becoming one of Scotland's best-loved groups, this is the touching story of the legendary rock band.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: DaveRo
Date: 29 Dec 21 - 12:30 PM

Radio Merseyside
A single one hour programme from Mike Brocken.
...and two more to follow:
Available now
Upcoming

Despite identical titles, I think those are separate programmes.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 29 Dec 21 - 11:06 AM

Radio Merseyside
A single one hour programme from Mike Brocken.

"All the latest releases from the UK folk scene and the Folkscene Album of the Year 2021."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b8ykkf


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 07:01 PM

9pm Wednesday 29 December 2021 BBC Radio 2 Folk Show
Mark shares warming folk and acoustic music for the middle of winter.

18:15 Thursday 30 December BBC Radio 4 This Cultural Life repeat
Paul McCartney talks to John Wilson about his key influences and inspirations.

Saturday 1 January BBC Radio 3
10:15 Radio 3 in Concert
New Year's Day Concert from Vienna
13:00 Inside Music Singer and musician Julie Fowlis opens up a selection of music from a singer and musician’s point of view.
16:00 Music Planet New music from Womex
Lopa Kothari kicks off 2022 with some of the freshest new music from Womex.

00:15 Sunday 2 January 3022 ie Suturday night! BBC RADIO 4 Shaking Up the Shanty repeat
The musical duo The Rheingans Sisters compose a contemporary sea shanty for an unusual cargo boat that has ditched diesel in favour of sails.

9pm Wednesday 5 January 2022 BBC Radio 2 Folk Show
Songwriter Grace Petrie performs songs from her latest album, Connectivity.

9pm Wednesday 12 January 2022 BBC Radio 2 Folk Show
With Punch Brothers' Chris Thile and Chris Eldridge.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Dec 21 - 02:30 PM

Wednesday 22 December BBC Radio 4

16:00 Sideways 24. Sweet Harmony https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012q30

In this episode, Matthew Syed explores the importance of harmony and asks whether bringing in musical ideas could help bring us a little more harmony in our lives. We get a lesson in close harmony singing with folk trio Lady Maisery and consider how the principles of close listening could carry beyond a musical setting.

19:15 Front Row https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm

Last night, the longest of the year, musicians Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden intended to bring good cheer, light and joyful music with a wassail concert, but the omicron variant put paid to that. Instead Eliza and Jon will be bringing some of what was planned to Front Row, explaining the ancient tradition of wassailing – the word comes from the Anglo Saxon for good health - and singing and playing.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 11 Dec 21 - 03:33 PM

Sat 11 December 11pm-12.45am Sky Arts TV
Leadbelly: The Man who invented Rock and Roll


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 08 Dec 21 - 04:29 PM

BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe

9pm-10pm Wednesday 8 December Spell Songs with Kris Drever and Jackie Morris
This week, Mark focuses on the wonders of British nature, as songwriter Kris Drever and painter Jackie Morris talk about Spell Songs II - Let The Light In. It is the second album by the Spell Songs collective, which features some of these islands' finest folk musicians: Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter and Jim Molyneux.

7pm-9pm Wednesday 15 December Nations of Folk
Mark’s fellow folk presenters Lynette Fay, Bruce MacGregor and Frank Hennessy choose their highlights from the past year and introduce live performances from standout artists. Mark will represent England from his studio in Salford. Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan, Katherine Priddy, TRÚ and Calan will be among the guests, and this show will be simulcast on BBC Radio 2, Radio Scotland, Radio Wales, Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle.

9pm-10pm Wednesday 22 December Folk on Screen, with Mackenzie Crook and Adrian McNally
Mark Radcliffe shares songs and tunes that have soundtracked much-loved TV series and feature films. Actor and director Mackenzie Crook and Adrian McNally from The Unthanks talk about creating music for Mackenzie's BBC One adaptation of Worzel Gummidge (and previously, Detectorists).

9pm-10pm Wednesday 29 December Midwinter Music
This week, Mark shares warming folk and acoustic music for the middle of winter.

9pm-10pm Wednesday 5 January Grace Petrie plays live
This week, songwriter Grace Petrie performs songs from her latest album, Connectivity.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 06 Dec 21 - 08:37 PM

BBC radio 3   4th Dec 2021
Music Planet
Gaelic Women Singers

Lopa Kothari explores with Mary Ann Kennedy the stories of some of the key female Scots Gaelic singers of the last century, including Mary MacPherson, Frances Tolmie and Jessie MacLachlan, as well as contemporary Gaelic performers inspired by their legacy.

Plus music from the Ivory Coast, Brazil and Peru.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00126tn


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 05:01 AM

BBC4 TV Friday night 9pm 26 November 2021

Alan Hull/Lindisfarne

Brit Award winner Sam Fender goes in search of a musical hero from another era - the late, great, Alan Hull of Lindisfarne. Sam is amazed how few people, outside of his native north east, know much about his hero’s work. He’s now on a mission to win back Hull’s place in music history.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 05:47 PM

Sky Arts TV Saturday 27 November

9 to 10.30pm A Carly Simon Moonlight Serenade; Carly Simon on board the Queen Mary 2, backed by a 15bpiece orchestra, plus an acoustic set with her daughter.

10.30 to 11.30pm Set the Night on Fire tells the story of Ewan MacColl’s life and his varied career, with current folk musicians and close family providing new versions of his key works.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: DaveRo
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 04:31 PM

Tonight's Radio 3 in Concert turned out to be good. I was expecting the Schubert - though not with puppets - but not what followed:

Barokksolistene play The Alehouse Sessions
The dynamic Norway-based baroque supergroup caused a sensation with their 2017 album The Alehouse Sessions. Tonight, in the Tudor setting of London's Middle Temple Hall, they recreate the tumultuous atmosphere of London's 17th-century taverns and theatres with their unique interpretations of Purcell overtures, sea shanties and the occasional Scandinavian folk song.

From the Guardian:
Barokksolistene review – group reinvent Schubert but are best in the tavern

I would have liked to see it. Available to listen for a month I expect.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Nov 21 - 09:38 AM

Broadcast on Badio 4, available on BBC Sounds;

Thursday; Mother KD
Laura Barton sorts through myth and misdirection to tell the story of Karen Dalton, the folk world's answer to Billie Holiday.

Sunday; Open Country
Britain's Forgotten Rainforest, with an appearance by Sam Lakeman on Dartmoor.

And coming up on Tuesday 30 Nov 2021 11:30 BBC RADIO 4 Shaking Up the Shanty

The musical duo The Rheingans Sisters compose a contemporary sea shanty for an unusual cargo boat that has ditched diesel in favour of sails.

De Gallant borrows technology from the past to sail toward a more sustainable future and so it seems fitting that the musical duo The Rheingans Sisters should write a song that borrows from traditional shanties to create a contemporary song that sings of the boat’s progressive journey.

They set off to understand the shanty genre by speaking to Gerry Smyth, a shanty expert based at Liverpool John Moores University, but then decide to break all the rules!


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Oct 21 - 01:45 PM

Wednesday 9pm BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe

20 October 2021 Tribute to The Chieftains' Paddy Moloney
Music and memories of an Irish legend, the late Paddy Moloney

27 October Songs of North East England with Megson
Megson (Debbie Hanna and Stu Hanna) share their love of songs and songwriters from North East England.

3 November Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg talks about the themes that have inspired his new album, The Million Things That Never Happened, which Billy calls a "pandemic blues" record.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Oct 21 - 02:51 AM

pursuit of beaytu Emily Dickinsons bedroom Poetry Extra
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010fsn


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 10 Oct 21 - 03:33 AM

Friday 15 October Sky Arts TV - now free!
8:00pm Paul Simon: Live in Central Park 1991
10:30pm Discovering: Paul Simon. Critics discuss his career.
Plus that other 80 year old
11:00pm Bob Dylan: Urban Myths


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 10 Oct 21 - 03:05 AM

Saturday 9 October 2021 BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends Available for 29 days
With Billy Bragg singing Shield
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Miriam Margolyes, Stevie Van Zandt and Dino Fetscher an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Billy Bragg and MF Robots.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Oct 21 - 05:57 AM

Paul Frederic Simon born October 13, 1941.

Saturday 9 October BBC2 TV
8:55pm The Harmony Game; Making Bridge Over Troubled Water 1970
10:55pm Concert in Central Park 1981

Wednesday 13 October 9:00pm BBC Radio 2 Folk Show Paul Simon at 80
This week, Mark celebrates Paul Simon's 80th birthday with brilliant songs and archive moments from Paul's career, which began in New York's Greenwich Village before he made influential trips to the British folk circuit of the 1960s.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Rain Dog
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 02:29 PM

Spiers & Boden were also on Front Row this evening on BBC Radio 4

Front Row


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 01:35 PM

22 September 2021 9.00pm BBC Radio 2 Folk Show

John Spiers and Jon Boden, who co-founded Bellowhead, talk about reforming their original duo for a new album, Fallow Ground.

John and Jon also pay tribute to the much missed and influential singer Peter Bellamy, who died 30 years ago this week.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 14 Sep 21 - 07:55 AM

Now available on BBC Sounds Private Passions BBC3

Peggy Seeger 5 September 2021

Peggy Seeger's extraordinary musical career spans six and a half decades. Since the age of 17 she has been writing, performing and recording songs pretty much non-stop. At the age of 80 she won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best New Song with her son Calum and earlier this year, at the age of nearly 86, she released her latest album.

Peggy tells Michael Berkeley about her complex 30-year love affair with Ewan McColl, which was at the heart of the British folk revival; together they produced more than 40 albums, the revolutionary Radio Ballads for the BBC – and three very musical children.

Helena Attlee 12 September 2021

Helena has spent most of her life immersed in Italian culture, and she has written two bestselling books that take her readers to the heart of Italy via unexpected avenues: The Land Where Lemons Grow tells the story of citrus-growing in Italy, from the Medici to the Mafia; and Lev's Violin recounts her obsessive search in Italy and beyond to discover the history of a battered but beautiful old violin.

The violin was being played by the world folk band Moishe's Bagel and she found herself captivated not only by the concert's bittersweet klezmer but by this particular violin. Helena chooses music by Paganini that takes her to the Tuscan garden once owned by Napoleon's sister; a folk song from Sicily, the heartland of Italian citrus farming; and a moving recording of singing from the windows of Siena during the lockdown.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Sep 21 - 01:44 PM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000zdqv
Ewan MacColl - folk singer and labour activist - was born in Salford in 1915


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,The Man from UNCOOL
Date: 07 Sep 21 - 01:45 PM

This prog., Thu. 2 Sep. BBC Radio 4 11.30am Song of the Thames, was repeated earlier this afternoon, just before an addition of Great Lives [which gets a repeat ?Friday BBC Radio 4 11pm BST] with Peggy Seeger recommending Ewan MacColl. I found it illuminating, and changed my views of him.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 07 Sep 21 - 12:57 PM

BBC Radio 2 9.00pm Wednesday 8 September

When folk meets pop including tracks by Moxie and Seth Lakeman that blend folk and pop, and Scots-language songs by Old Blind Dogs and Iona Fyfe.

BBC4 TV Friday 10 September The Everly Brothers

10.00pm Harmonies from Heaven Don Everly revisits Iowa
11.00pm Arena 1984 The Everly Brothers revisit Kentucky
12.35pm Arena 1983 The Everly Brothers perform in London

Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

"Paradise" is a song written by John Prine for his father, and recorded for his 1971 debut album, John Prine. The song is about what happened to the area around the Green River in Kentucky because of strip mining. The song references the Peabody Coal Company, and a town called Paradise in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. The Everly Brothers, natives of Muhlenberg County, recorded a version for their 1973 album Pass the Chicken & Listen.

John Prine was the son of William Mason Prine, a tool-and-die maker, and Verna Valentine (Hamm), a homemaker, both from Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He was born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Maywood. In summers, they would go back to visit family near Paradise, Kentucky. In the song Prine asks to have his ashes dispersed on the Green River. After his death in 2020 this wish was fulfilled.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 02 Sep 21 - 01:49 AM

Richard Thompson BBC Radio 4 plus Sounds

John Wilson continues with the second series of Mastertapes, in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances.

Wednesday 1 September 11.30pm Programme 3, A-side "Rumour And Sigh" - Richard Thompson (repeat from 2013)
Thursday 2 September 11.30pm Programme 3 B-side


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 04:16 AM

Wednesday 1 September BBC Radio 2 9.00pm Folk Show

Mark catches up with Sam Kelly, who is releasing a new album with his band, The Lost Boys.

Thursday 2 September BBC Radio 4 11.30am Song of the Thames

Singer and song collector Sam Lee traces the wonders of the distinctly English chalk stream, with a journey along the largest and most famous, the River Thames. Beginning at its source in the idyllic Cotswold countryside and following the majestic water all the way to its most famous stretch through central London, he unearths the untold origins of England's best-known river.

Through folklore, music, ecology and lives along 215 miles of river, he discovers the past, present and future influence of a stretch of water with deep cultural roots stretching through the heart of England. Who is fed and who is starved by the river now and what does it mean to the people who live along its banks?

By coincidence, cooperative publishing venture The Ballad Partners is publishing Martin Graebe's "Forgotten Songs of the Upper Thames: Folk Songs from the Alfred Williams Collection". Here you'll find the songs omitted from Williams' 1923 book from those he collected between 1914 and 1916 in the Upper Thames Valley. Surely this deserves an expedition along the Thames too.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Felipa
Date: 18 Aug 21 - 05:52 PM

Thur 19 Aug.
Bob Harris' country music show on BBC Radio 2 will have a tribute to Nanci Griffith tomorrow night, Thursday 19 Aug. 2021. The weekly radio programme starts at 9 pm (BST zone). I don't know how much of the one-hour programme will be dedicated to Ms Griffith. Typically, the featured segments on the Wed. night folk show are very short. But the country show may approach things differently, especially in the case of a tribute of this nature.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Aug 21 - 04:12 PM

The Folk Show BBC Radio 2 Wednesdays 9pm

4 August On the road again; including some tracks to mark the return of post-lockdown concert tours.

11 August Mark is joined by musician and singer Joachim Cooder, son of guitarist Ry Cooder. Joachim shares his love for the old-time songs of Uncle Dave Macon, which have inspired Joachim's new album, Over That Road I'm Bound. He explains how he's given the songs an all-new flavour, adding African grooves and unique instrumentation.

18 August Mark checks in with two members of Glasgow's vibrant folk scene: Kim Carnie and John Lowrie from the band Staran. Staran's self-titled debut fuses beautiful tunes with songs in English and Scottish Gaelic.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Aug 21 - 02:30 PM

Sunday 1 August BBC Radio 3

6.45pm Sloe Time; Reliving childhood adventures in the Chiltern’s, pretending to be the princess in the thorny bush, Lisa recalls dangerous, warning stabs from the blackthorns cruel spikes. She talks to Samuel Robinson, coppicer and woodsman, who knows the blackthorn better than most. For Lisa he sings a beautiful song about the blackthorn winter, the false spring, his dog’s violent encounter with a deer, and his own confrontation with death.

Music by Samuel Robinson - ‘Blackthorn’ - featuring Hannah Flynn

7.00 A Commemoration of Peterloo = The Masque of Anarchy
Maxine Peake performs Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem of protest The Masque of Anarchy. Shelley was compelled to respond to the massacre in which cavalrymen charged campaigners protesting against the restrictive parliamentary representation of the time in St Peters Field Manchester leaving 15 dead and 700 injured.

Recorded only a few miles from where it happened, Maxine Peake's performance makes the poem - a call for political action - resonate for a contemporary audience.

We also hear eyewitness accounts from Samuel Bamford a radical reformer who led the group from Middleton and his wife Jemima Bamford performed by Jason Done and Christine Bottomley. Contemporary ballads written in the aftermath are sung by Jennifer Read.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jul 21 - 01:52 PM

BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service
Fiddles and Fiddle Tunes

25 Jul 2021    Available for over a year

What’s the difference between a fiddle and a violin?

How did an English jig turn into a Virginian reel?

And what do Bach’s violin sonatas have in common with folk tunes from Finland?

In The Listening Service today Tom Service explores fiddles, fiddlers, and fiddle tunes from around the globe, looking at how they connect communities, reflecting the stories of migrants and musicians across time, and staying true to tradition whilst continually changing. And how have classical composers incorporated fiddle tunes into their work? From Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, based on tunes found in a library in Munich, to Aaron Copland’s Rodeo Hoe-Down, an orchestral transformation of the Kentucky fiddler Bill Stepp’s tune Bonaparte’s Retreat.

Our witnesses today are Pete Cooper, who learnt classical violin as a teenager before discovering busking and ending up fiddling in West Virginia, and Lori Watson whose music and research draw on the landscapes and folklore of the Scottish Borders where she grew up.

Producer: Ruth Thomson

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000y5vl


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 05:59 AM

9:00am Wednesday 29 July BBC Radio 4

Soul Music; The Parting Glass

So fill to me the parting glass...
Goodnight and joy be to you all.

A popular toast at the end of an evening or a heartfelt farewell to a departed or deceased person? The Parting Glass has become synonymous with leaving. It was written in Scotland and has criss crossed the Irish Sea becoming a popular song among Celtic peoples around the world.
Folk singer Karine Polwart talks of its fragile beauty as a song that can be a rousing drinking song at the end of the night but equally a poignant farewell at a funeral.
For Alaskan Fire Chief Benjamin Fleagle there was no more fitting song to honour his mentor and colleague at his Fire Department when he passed away over a decade ago. The song still brings out raw emotion in him.
Alissa McCulloch 'clung' to the song when she heard the Irish singer Hozier sing a version of it at the start of the pandemic in March 2020. At the time Alissa was seriously mentally unwell at home in Australia and was admitted to hospital where she listened to the song over and over finding comfort in its timeless beauty.
After Canada's worst mass shooting in its history Pete MacDonald and his sisters recorded an acapella version of the song as a musical tribute to those who lost their lives. It's a tradition in Novia Scotia to sing in the kitchen at parties, wakes and celebrations and they wanted to pay their respects to the dead.
The Irish singer Finbar Furey has performed the song with his band the Fureys and talks about its appeal not only in Scotland and Ireland but throughout the Scots-Irish diaspora.

But since it falls unto my lot
That I should rise
And you should not
I'll gently rise and softly call
Goodnight and joy be to you all

Soul Music; 163 episodes available on BBC Sounds!


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 05:38 AM

Pick of the Week BBC Radio 4 18 Jul 2021 Available for 24 days
Presenter: Sean Cooney

From the wharves of Stromness to the be-flagged streets of Rome
Past pit cages and pulley wheels, muffin men and marras
Smiling masks and dancing penguins
Little black suitcases and runaway boys
Tears and pain and hope
From a lonely penalty spot to a wall in Withington

...join Sean for the best of BBC audio this week.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,JoeG
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 04:41 AM

Sean Cooney of the Young 'Uns chose last Sunday's Pick of the Week. Will still be on BBC Sounds


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 12:32 AM

Reminder! Loose Ends 18.15 Saturday 24 July BBC Radio 4
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by David Crosby, Jamz Supernova, Alfred Enoch and Willy Vlautin for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
With music from Jackson Browne and Jake Wesley Rogers.

Variety July 23 2021; At 79-going-on-80 and 72, respectively, David Crosby and Jackson Browne — two lyrical lions of the ’60s-into-’70s singer-songwriter movement — have faced more than their share of demons and angels battling on their shoulders. Lives lived to the fullest for the better and the worse, activist causes driven and dropped, both men are now creating age-conscious but not-so-elegiac songs and releasing their most potent, reflective and even imaginative work in decades with this weekend’s release of Crosby’s “For Free” and Browne’s “Downhill From Everywhere”.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 18 Jul 21 - 06:04 PM

Folk Show BBC Radio 2 9pm Wednesday 21 July Barbara Dickson on the passage of time

This week, Mark hears stories and memories from Barbara Dickson's early days as a folk singer. Barbara, a star of stage and screen, is renowned for all kinds of singing but began her career in the folk clubs of Fife. Her latest album, Time Is Going Faster, was released in 2020.

Loose Ends BBC Radio 4 18.15 Saturday 24 July Repeated 11.30am Monday 26 July

David Crosby, Jackson Browne, Jamz Supernova, Alfred Enoch, Willy Vlautin, Athena Kugblenu, Clive Anderson
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by David Crosby, Jamz Supernova, Alfred Enoch and Willy Vlautin for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jackson Browne.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Jul 21 - 06:55 PM

9pm 14 July 2021 BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe

TRÚ and the songs of Northern Ireland

This week, Mark speaks to new Northern Irish trio, TRÚ. Dónal Kearney, Zach Trouton and Michael Mormecha make up the young group, who have turned heads with their smart and modern reworkings of Northern Irish trad songs. Their debut album, No Fixed Abode, is out now.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 09 Jul 21 - 08:43 AM

that last post sounds a lot more interesting than the normal pseudo-folk crap coming out of the BBC for many years- there are a few exceptions, of course, and no doubt they'll be pointed out


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: DaveRo
Date: 08 Jul 21 - 05:36 PM

Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone

The life and work of an innovator whose idea for mass producing sound recordings revolutionised the way we listen to music.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1rlc


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 11 Jun 21 - 02:21 AM

Thursday 17 June 2021 11.30am BBC Radio 4 Blue: Pain and Pleasure
Marking the 50th anniversary of the release of Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue, Laura Marling tells the story behind the writing and recording of the album, and explains why Blue is regarded by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time.

Sunday 20 June 2021 9.00am BBC Radio 6 Joni Mitchell Blue Specialwith guests Pauline Black and David Mitchell
Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie present a special programme celebrating the 50th anniversary of Joni Mitchell’s album ‘Blue’. The album, originally released on 22nd June 1971, is now regarded as one of the as one of the greatest albums of all time and has gone on to inspire a generation of musicians.

Wednesday 23 Jun 2021 21:00 BBC RADIO 2 Folk Show Joni Mitchell's Blue at 50
22nd June marks 50 years since the release of possibly the most influential of all singer-songwriter folk albums. Mark Radcliffe plays tracks from the album and considers what makes it such an enduring classic.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jun 21 - 04:44 PM

The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe

Wednesday 9 May 21:00 BBC RADIO 2 Kings of Convenience in Norway
Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe from Kings of Convenience talk about returning to music.

Wed 16 Jun 2021 21:00 BBC RADIO 2
The best in folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

Wed 23 Jun 2021 21:00 BBC RADIO 2 Joni Mitchell's Blue at 50
22nd June marks 50 years since the release of possibly the most influential of all singer-songwriter folk albums. Mark Radcliffe plays tracks from the album and considers what makes it such an enduring classic.

And an alternative, a Zoom concert from livetoyourlivingroom Narthen
Wednesday 9 June 2021 20:00 - 22:00 Standard ticket £15

Featuring Barry Coope of Coope Boyes and Simpson, Jo Freya of Blowzabella/Moirai, six-time BBC folk award nominee Jim Causley, and Fi Fraser of The Old Fashioned/Polka Works – Narthen is a quartet of superb vocal harmonies and multi-instrumentalism who cannot wait to perform together again!


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 07 Jun 21 - 10:31 AM

Genevieve Tudor seems to have her regular Sunday 60 minute slot back on BBC Radio Shropshire.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p001d7lt


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: DaveRo
Date: 31 May 21 - 10:32 AM

Folkscene on Radio Merseyside has resurfaced, for the first time since the new year.
First of a new series, he says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09htvrh


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 29 May 21 - 07:54 AM

BBC Radio Scotland -
7pm today - Take the Floor - Another chance to hear a great show recorded at Celtic Connections in 2018 and presented by Gary Innes. We have a full evening of dancing recorded in the CCA in Glasgow with music from two of the country's best Scottish Dance Bands, Alasdair MacCuish and His Highland Hebridean East West Dancing Ceilidh Band and The Robert Robertson Dance Band.

9pm Pipeline - Piping Across the Globe


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 29 May 21 - 07:14 AM

Saturday 16:00 BBC Radio 3 Music Planet

29 May 2021 Kathryn Tickell with new tracks from across the globe.

Plus an interview with Malian kora maestro Toumani Diabate, whose latest album features traditional kora pieces performed in concert with the London Symphony Orchestra, in arrangements by Ian Gardiner and Nico Muhly.

05 June 2021 Kathryn Tickell with Nobuhiko Chiba
Kathryn Tickell presents a live performance of Ainu songs by the Japanese singer and tonkori player Nobuhiko Chiba (aka Hawhawke), part of an event called Otocare - Fuji Iyashi no Mori, exploring the interplay of music, sound and nature, and recorded in a forest in Yamanakako village last month.

Plus the latest new releases with tracks from Galician producer Baiuca, Ghanaian kologo player Ayuune Sule and two very different sounds of Colombia - Bogota's Los Piranas and this week's Classic Artist, Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 28 May 21 - 06:24 PM

Bob Dylan Friday 28 May BBC Four TV 29 days left to watch;

19.05 ...Sings Dylan II

21.00 Don't Look Back 1965 tour of Britain
22.30 Omnibus; Getting to Dylan
23.00 Arena; Trouble No More
00.00 Songwriters at the BBC
01.00 ...Sings Dylan II
02.00 Don't Look Back 1965 tour of Britain


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Brian Peters
Date: 27 May 21 - 01:06 PM

'Perhaps, the complete departure from reality was the only way the playwright was able to build the edifice to deliver the payload.'

I'm sure you're quite right there.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 27 May 21 - 02:56 AM

BBC Radio 2 9.00pm Thursday Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe

02 June 2021 One of America's most exciting new folk and blues voices, Amythyst Kiah, talks to Mark.

09 June 2021 Kings of Convenience in Norway Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe talk about returning to music.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,Jiggers
Date: 25 May 21 - 12:38 PM

"Contrary to the claim in the dialogue, Sharp did credit Louie Hooper, Lucy White and John England for all the songs they contributed to 'Folk Songs from Somerset'. There was no quarrel with Louie Hooper, who remembered Sharp very fondly after his death as a kind and generous friend. And he also paid her and her sister for their songs."

Perhaps, the complete departure from reality was the only way the playwright was able to build the edifice to deliver the payload. The playwright would have known that what they were writing was not true and this is the only explanation I can come up with.

I can see why you would be angry though. Luckily I did not know the facts until you presented them.


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 May 21 - 04:47 PM

BBC Radio 6 Music Artist Collection The Bob Dylan Playlist Bob Dylan Episode 1 to 5
A playlist celebrating the music of Bob Dylan and its roots and branches - including those they've been influenced by and those they've inspired.
23 days left to listen


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST
Date: 24 May 21 - 02:14 PM

80 year olds are everywhere! Just for curiosity, here's another member of the same generation. Actor Miriam Margolyes is 80 today. And she has two contrasting shows on Sky Arts tonight;

It'll be alright Guest, she has the brain of a ten yr old!


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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Brian Peters
Date: 24 May 21 - 05:45 AM

i am not an expert on Sharp. Brian tell us more about the misrepresentations, i am only interested in learning more.

Briefly, Dick:
Contrary to the claim in the dialogue, Sharp did credit Louie Hooper, Lucy White and John England for all the songs they contributed to 'Folk Songs from Somerset'. There was no quarrel with Louie Hooper, who remembered Sharp very fondly after his death as a kind and generous friend. And he also paid her and her sister for their songs.

I did like the speech about the meaning and context of the songs as Louie experienced them, and agree that such feelings cannot be captured by a notation on a piece of paper. But that notation gives others the opportunity to sing and enjoy the song, and to develop their own pleasurable experiences.

The bottom line is that, although drama is allowed to take liberties and to fill in the gaps where we don't know exactly what was said and felt, I don't believe there's any excuse for presenting the opposite of what we know actually happened.


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