BBC Radio this week

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 10 May 21 - 02:33 PM

The Welsh people first arrived in Patagonia in 1865. They had migrated to protect their native Welsh culture and language, which they considered to be threatened in their native Wales. In 2004 the Welsh speakers in Argentina asked the Welsh government to provide them with Welsh TV programmes to encourage the survival and growth of Welsh in Patagonia. Wikipedia

Radio Wales sent Huw Williams to interview Pete Seeger at his home in the Hudson Valley to mark the 50th anniversary of the song Bells of Rhymney, and back to America again to visit the Rock Island Line. Matthew Bannister has to pay his own way!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,Cj
Date: 10 May 21 - 03:12 PM

Next up will be a BBC version of the Celtic Music saga, but, being fiction, all those records get reissued...

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 11 May 21 - 03:43 AM

Folk on Foot is excellent. Matthew still presents Last Word

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 May 21 - 09:47 AM

the sharp programme was fascinating

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Brian Peters
Date: 11 May 21 - 11:16 AM

the sharp programme was fascinating

In the blatancy of its misrepresentations, undoubtedly!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 May 21 - 03:09 PM

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

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 May 21 - 10:55 AM

Saturday 15 May 4pm BBC Radio 3 Music Planet
Lopa Kothari introduces this year's Songlines Awards

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Joe G
Date: 15 May 21 - 11:22 AM

Enjoying the programme - especially the winner of the Europe category

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 16 May 21 - 04:52 PM

BBC Radio 4 1.45pm Monday to Friday 17-21 May
It ain't ne you're looking for; Bob Dylan at 80

BBC Radio 2 9.00pm Thursday 20 May
Folk Show; Martin Carthy at 80

Still to come; Paul Simon at 80. Paul Frederic Simon born October 13, 1941
Sky Arts Monday night 17 May 12:15am Paul Simon - Live in Central Park 1991
The singer's free concert in New York City, when he performed tracks from his albums Gracelands and Rhythm of the Saints as well as older material.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 16 May 21 - 05:17 PM

BBC Radio 4 Bob Dylan at 80

It Ain’t Me You’re Looking For: Bob Dylan at 80 BBC Radio 4, 17-21 May, 1.45-2pm From Monday 17 May, Professor Sean Latham presents It Ain’t Me You’re Looking For: Bob Dylan at 80.

Latham is Director of the Institute for Bob Dylan Studies at the University of Tulsa, and in this five part series, richly illustrated with music, he looks closely at the songs and draws on the vast Bob Dylan Archive, including material never broadcast before, to explore the life, work and influence of this great and elusive artist.

Dinner With Dylan BBC Radio 4, 22 May, 3-4pm Dinner With Dylan is based on a true story and delves into the passionately dedicated world of Dylan fans, or as they dub themselves ‘Bobcats’.

Jon Canter’s script recounts an evening over dinner between friends Richard Curtis, Kerry Shale, Lucas Hare and Eileen Atkins - and each will play themselves in this audio drama, a first for Curtis. Akbar Kurtha (24, Small Axe) plays the part of Sam the waiter - ever eager to please his demanding guests.

Bob Dylan: Verbatim BBC Radio 4, 22 May, 8-9pm

The documentary Bob Dylan: Verbatim explores Bob Dylan's life and career told in his own words, incorporating rare interviews, studio outtakes and classic Dylan musings in his own inimitable style.

What’s So Great About… Bob Dylan? BBC Radio 4 Extra, 24 May, 2.30-3pm

On 4Extra is What’s So Great About… Bob Dylan? presented by Lenny Henry in which he questions the greatness of the musician he never really got to grips with. Lenny - a great fan of soul music and rhythm and blues - finds out more about one recording artist he never really 'got'. Poet Andrew Motion, Kris Kristofferson, Bryan Ferry, Jools Holland and Al Kooper, who played with Dylan on some of his most famous albums in the 1960s, are among the defence team.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 17 May 21 - 07:19 PM

Friday 21 May 2021 17.00-1900 BBC Radio 3

Sean Rafferty introduces live music from the Chilingirian String Quartet and talks to the folk singer Shirley Collins. Both artists have concerts in front of a live audience this weekend.

Shirley Collins & the Lodestar Band Live from the Barbican
Sun 23 May 2021, 20:00,Barbican Hall

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 18 May 21 - 06:09 AM

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;
8.00 Tate Britain Great British Walks; Miriam Margolyes walks in the footsteps of Alfred Wallis
9.00 Miriam Margolyes reflects on her life.
These 80 year olds certainly keep going. Any others?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 19 May 21 - 04:17 PM

Subject: RE: Why didn't MacColl like Dylan? From: GUEST Date: 18 May 21 - 04:59 AM

my point was that the BBc and Radio 4 in particular are repeatedly trailing an obsequious 'tribute which might be valid on Radio 1.

Dunno which particular programme you have in mind.

Could it be the all-Dylan request edition on the Folk Show next week?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,Jiggers
Date: 24 May 21 - 05:29 AM

I finally listened to the Cecil Sharp play - quite moving when Louis talks about the countryside being in the songs, her relationship and memories were stored in the songs too. So writing the song down is actually impossible, but I think it is probably still worth doing even if it only provides a crude silhouette. For me, it is a reminder that life cannot easily be translated into another form without losing essence.

I enjoyed the song choice, the singing and the debates.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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”.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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