BBC Radio this 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 09:47 AM

the sharp programme was fascinating

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: 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,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,jim bainbridge
Date: 10 May 21 - 02:00 PM

Folk on foot sounds like a good idea, what Mr Bannister will do with it, heaven knows- didn't he used to present 'Last Word' the Radio 4 obituary programme?
Not very ambitious though, sandwell and Sheffield?   Hank Wangford conned an extensive trip to Patagonia based on a wild hope of finding Welsh settlers there...

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 10 May 21 - 01:50 PM

Patricia Nicol, Audio, Sunday Times; Folk on Foot is the passion project podcast of Matthew Bannister, a former BBC director of radio. In each episode, Bannister walks with a folk artist through a landscape that inspires their music. As lockdown eased, he travelled to the RSPB Sandwell Valley Reserve, Birmingham, to meet Germa Adan, born in Haiti, brought up in Florida, who lives near by.

Folk on Foot; We've been out and about in Sheffield and the surrounding countryside with the brilliant guitarist, singer and songwriter @JGhedi (and a couple of his musical friends). The episode launches next Friday. Listen to the full episode from Friday 14 May at folkonfoot.com or in your podcast app.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Brian Peters
Date: 10 May 21 - 01:37 PM

Actually, Steve, Dick was correct. Speaking of 'Folk Songs from Somerset', the characters DO state angrily that 'It don't say where the songs come from!' - and that ain't true.

The play's portrayal of antagonism between Louie Hooper and Sharp is entirely fabricated. She wrote a fulsome posthumous tribute to him for the benefit of his biographers, mentioning spending 'many a happy hour' singing to him and remarking on his generosity with gifts of clothing, cash payments, and the concertina he gave Louie, which he apparently enjoyed hearing her play.

Yes, it's only a play (and did have some good points), but I hope no-one will take it's depiction of the relationship between the characters as in any way accurate.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 May 21 - 10:58 AM

Pter Kennedy was much more of a problem, he seemed to think he owned the songs, and appears to have upset some source singers with his attitude

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 10 May 21 - 09:46 AM

As well as the Sharp play mentioned there was a feast of folk on Radio 3 last night with the Kershaw tapes and the start of Catrin Finch's series about the harp

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 May 21 - 09:27 AM

ye it can be a problem with a drama fIction anD fact muddled together and given the impression of fact. but still an intersting programme
Sharp did use folk song and the songs he collected to promote himself, as a collector as well as promting the material.
he did manage to fall out with other collectors such as mary neal and sam bennett, he described bennett as a rotter, and because of his own agendas and a personality clash collected far less from bennett than, c james madison carpenter. managed to
Sharp was an odd ball, who was obsessed with collecting but had agenda issues AND WAS INTENT ON SELF GLORIFICATION. BUT THANKFULLY DID COLLECT A HELL OF A LOT OF GREAT MATERIAL

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Brian Peters
Date: 10 May 21 - 09:10 AM

Yes, Cj, I get that it is a dramatisation and, as with 'The Crown', there will be stuff in there that's made up. I won't say anything more until I've listened to it, but thanks for the clarification, Steve.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 10 May 21 - 08:53 AM

Brian
It does not make that claim. The claim Louie makes, and it is a valid one, is that she was not asked permission for Sharp to publish her songs. I must confess to having been guilty of the same, but I'm sure all collectors of songs are guilty in that respect. I've never ever been taken to task for this, and at least Sharp went back in order to be told to his face, if this is an accurate representation. There are lots of subtle accusations made in the play. As I said, very though-provoking.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,Cj
Date: 10 May 21 - 08:47 AM

It's a dramatisation and is not claiming to be factually correct. Best not to listen to it as though it were or one may find oneself pulling one's hair out.

I enjoyed it as a play. It ain't no history lesson, but I don't think it's supposed to be. If it encourages people towards traditional music, I think it's a good thing.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Brian Peters
Date: 10 May 21 - 08:19 AM

was it true that he did not credit his sources

It is not. All the sources in 'Folk Songs from Somerset' are credited, including Louie Hooper. There are no sources named in '100 English Folk Songs', which I think consists mostly of highlights from the same Somerset material. All the singers in 'Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians' are credited.

I haven't actually listened to it yet, but if this claim is actually made then I fear the worst.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 May 21 - 05:23 AM

I've got that earmarked for a rainy day listen...

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 May 21 - 02:33 AM

mr sharp you only see what you want to see

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 May 21 - 01:39 AM

i agree steve, was it true that he didnot credit his sources

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 09 May 21 - 05:03 PM

Great piece of radio on the Sharp play. Some very thought-provoking issues raised and I enjoyed the script.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 May 21 - 04:48 PM

thankyou

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 08 May 21 - 05:36 PM

Sunday 9th May 2021 1 hour, 29 minutes
(only available for about a month)
Drama on 3
Folk by Nell Leyshon

LOUIE HOOPER - Amanda Lawrence
LUCY - Amanda Wilkin
JOHN ENGLAND - Stuart McLoughlin
CECIL SHARP - Simon Russell Beale

Musical Director - Gary Yershon
Directed by Susan Roberts

"Louie Hooper lives with her sister on the Somerset Levels, and knows over 300 folk songs by heart. Cecil Sharp, who is down from London and staying in the village, overhears one of the songs. He immediately recognises its importance and is determined to gather as many songs as he can, before they are lost in the new industrialised and literate world of music halls and ballad sheets.

Louie thinks of her songs as free and changeable, owned and sung by the people. Sharp thinks the songs can be caught and arranged, saved for posterity, but he also believes they will inspire a new classical English music, and a new sense of pride in England.

,,,Sharp was seen as the godfather of folk, and a hero for saving the songs, but questions have also been raised about his appropriation of the material, his reworking and tidying of the songs, and his racial and nationalistic ideologies.

The idea for the play Folk came from an exhibition which told the stories of some of the singers. Writer Nell Leyshon discovered that Sharp had collected songs from the village she grew up in and that all his work had begun in Hambridge, a village close to hers.

Sharp collected many songs from Louie, who had an extraordinary feel for music. In an old interview recorded by the BBC, Louie described how she heard music everywhere, in the birds and in the rain falling on the roof.

The play is set at the time when a village was a whole world and contained everything needed - when Nell grew up in Somerset, it was still common to meet people who had hardly left her village. People still had traditional haymaking rituals including song."


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vwq2

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 02 May 21 - 04:21 PM

Live to your Living Room is a promoter of - mainly - folk music concerts. See their website for details of future concerts.

"Our unique live gigs take place in Zoom, which lets artists and audiences really connect and interact – expect tunes, songs, chat, laughs, and a surprisingly intimate feel! We have carefully curated this programme of online gigs to bring you the best of folk, roots, and acoustic artists from all over the UK and the world as well as exciting new artists at the start of their careers. Please help us to support them during these difficult times as COVID has caused so many arts professionals to struggle for work."

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 02 May 21 - 03:45 PM

Not on iPlayer ....

Saturday 1st May 5.30am Live to your Living Room presents;
May Dawn Dance Saturday 1st May 5.30am (doors 5.15am) Yes, 5.30am!
Martin Green; Eliza Carthy; Maddy Prior; Adie Baako; and Boss Morris

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 02 May 21 - 02:27 PM

Folk on iPlayer ...

36563: Folk Club with Lynette Fay - John Spillane in conversation about his new album '100 Snow White Horses'., BBC Radio Foyle, m000tpb6
36564: Folk Club with Lynette Fay - Folk and traditional music from Ireland and beyond. Rhiannon Giddens in conversation., BBC Radio Foyle, m000twzq
36565: Folk Club with Lynette Fay - Declan O'Rourke's Arrivals, BBC Radio Foyle, m000v3m1
36566: Folk Club with Lynette Fay - 23/04/2021, BBC Radio Foyle, m000v9xz
36567: Folk Club with Lynette Fay - Songs and tunes of the birds to celebrate International Dawn Chorus Weekend., BBC Radio Foyle, m000vjgc

42125: Shetland Folk Festival Special - 29/04/2021, BBC Radio Scotland, m000vmqy

43395: The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe - Peggy Seeger's first farewell, BBC Radio 2, m000tt37
43396: The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe - First Aid Kit on Leonard Cohen, BBC Radio 2, m000v1k0
43397: The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe - Sam Lee on nightingales, BBC Radio 2, m000v8yy
43398: The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe - 28/04/2021, BBC Radio 2, m000vhqv

43399: The Folk Show - 04/04/2021, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, p09bg2m7
43400: The Folk Show - 18/04/2021, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, p09ctx9g
43401: The Folk Show - 25/04/2021, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, p09dhtxv

44254: Tim Walker's Folk - 18/04/2021, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, p09czgm5
44255: Tim Walker's Folk - 25/04/2021, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, p09dlnn1

44363: Travelling Folk - 40th Shetland Folk Festival, and Edinburgh International Harp Festival, BBC Radio Scotland, m000twcw
44364: Travelling Folk - Alistair Russell and Songs of Separation, BBC Radio Scotland, m000v358
44365: Travelling Folk - James Lindsay on Torus, BBC Radio Scotland, m000v987
44366: Travelling Folk - Celebrating International Dance Day, BBC Radio Scotland, m000vhsq

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Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,Jiggers
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 04:38 AM

Thanks for recent postings from Freddy, Felipa, Dave and Matt - I now have lots of good music to listen to and am happy with the presenters.

Genevieve Tudor - Radio Shropshire
Tim Walker - Radio Lincolnshire
Lynette Fay - Radio Ulster

Maybe sometime in the future, if internet bandwidth gets cheaper, they will be broadcast at a higher quality bitrate that does the music justice but I cannot see that happening given the low audience numbers.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: DaveRo
Date: 28 Apr 21 - 05:57 PM

Sunday 02 May 2021 18:45 BBC Radio 3
More Kershaw Tapes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vqjl

During the 1980s and 1990s, DJ Andy Kershaw travelled around Africa and the Americas searching out great music and taping it on his Walkman Pro

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 28 Apr 21 - 04:54 PM

Thursday 29 April 11.30am BBC Radio 4 Dancers at Dawn - Martin Green

On the 1st May 1987 Martin Green's dad takes him Morris dancing before dawn on Wandlebury Hill outside Cambridgeshire. Many years later, at sunrise on his twenty-third birthday, he walks home from a rave over this same hill.

This uncanny coincidence has got him thinking. To most people, Morris dancing and [raving] rave culture seem so far apart. We like to think we know what sorts of people do what. So, what do these two groups have in common that drives them out into the fields to dance at dawn? As an accordionist, producer and storyteller, Martin's own work lives somewhere between traditional music, electronic music and theatre. In 2020 he made a piece of audio theatre that linked the ancient traditions of English dancing to the birth of rave in the 1980s, which led him to draw on events from his own life, of dawn Morris dancing and sunrise raves. This documentary explores those themes. Why do we dance at dawn? Is there an innate desire to do so?

Recollecting his experiences with his father and rave friend Becky, Martin uncovers the traditions and rituals surrounding each activity. He speaks to others who have danced at dawn and seeks expert advice from [the] DJ Lee Burridge, who's famous for his full moon parties in Thailand and sunrise sets at Burning Man festival. Taking all this experience on board, Martin undertakes a solo experiment. Removing all people and connections he drives on his own, in the dark to a remote field near his house with a mission. He wants to find out what it is about the music, the dancing and the surroundings that makes dancing at dawn truly special.

Saturday 1st May 5.30am Live to your Living Room presents;
May Dawn Dance Saturday 1st May 5.30am (doors 5.15am) Yes, 5.30am!
Martin Green; Eliza Carthy; Maddy Prior; Adie Baako; and Boss Morris

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,Jiggers
Date: 17 Apr 21 - 03:30 AM

Thanks, I checked it out briefly before but didn't scroll down the playlist to see that it turned into folk selection. Will be listening in future.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 16 Apr 21 - 01:21 PM

jiggers
Genevieve Tudor does
the final hour of Sunday's
Evenings on BBC Radio Shropshire*

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0876hdh/episodes/player

mentioned a few posts ago actually,,, ;)



*unless there is some 'special' programme on.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,jiggers
Date: 15 Apr 21 - 05:37 AM

thanks for alerting me to folk club, Felipa, I will give it a go soon.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Felipa
Date: 14 Apr 21 - 08:48 AM

Jiggers, "Folk Club" is still on Radio Ulster. It's a long while since Colm Sands presented the programme. The current presenter is Lynette Fay. Fridays 22.30 -23.55.

"Folk Club" is preceded by a traditional music programme presented in Irish Gaelic, "Blas Ceoil2, which starts at 21.30 and is presented by Caoimhe Ní Chathail.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: DaveRo
Date: 14 Apr 21 - 07:52 AM

GUEST,jiggers wrote: The Tim Walker programme was fine, lots of variety, and I have some artists to look up on the internet today as a result.

Jon Wilks was new to me: I particularly liked The Pretty Girls of Brummagem.

And it was worth the whole 4 hrs just to hear KBK sing The Dancing Taylor accompanying himself on bass concertina!

And having typed that I've just found an article in which one inverviews the other:

https://jonwilks.online/cohen-braithwaite-kilcoyne

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 14 Apr 21 - 06:39 AM

Mad Tom of Bedlam

Dave Moran writes "Nic [Jones] and I and mandolin/guitar player Nigel Paterson made up the Halliard. We were looking to develop some new music and we took the advice of song-writer Leslie Shepard. We decided to add tunes to Broadsides that we discovered, uncovered or collected – we checked out the Harkness Collection at Preston and the collections in Manchester etc. We also used Ashton's Street Ballads and Victorian Street Ballads ( Henderson) and on a couple of occasions we dipped into Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy - that is where we found Mad Maudlin (Tom of Bedlam or the Boys of Bedlam).

Nic and I wrote all the tunes together usually sitting in the front of the Mini and singing and working out tunes as we drove – as the mandolin was the smallest instrument and Nigel was in the back, he always played the tunes. 'Jones and Moran' wrote a heap of songs like this including Lancashire Lads, Going for a Soldier Jenny, Miles Weatherhill, Calico printers Clerk etc. We wrote the tunes to fit the words and sometimes added or altered words, as in The Workhouse Boy. So Nic and I wrote the tune to D'Urfeys words of Mad Maudlin – audiences were confused and stunned – it was very surreal...

We did a booking in the Midlands and an unaccompanied foursome called the Farriers loved the song and asked if they could sing it unaccompanied. We said sure – they were very good a bit like the Young Tradition. I believe that is how it got into the mainstream. We may well have recorded it [for a second Saga LP called Heroes & Villains] but there were royalty issues and now sadly the tape is lost. There were some good songs on it. I actually have Nigel's written top line music and chords over the top, and words, to many of our songs because we were going to put a songbook out to back up that LP.

We finally put [some] out with Jon Raven but we were too busy touring I guess. Included is the music to Mad Maudlin. About a year ago when the fuss about Nic began to resurface and Mike Raven put out the Halliard Double with the Ravens & BC3, I looked up an article in Dirty Linen on the internet and some American had tracked the song and said that he had recorded it and then discovered that Nic and I wrote the music from an acknowledgement in a Steeleye Span Songbook."

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,jiggers
Date: 14 Apr 21 - 06:13 AM

I listened to the Tim Walker show last night. I have seen my favourite shows disappear over the last decade. Mark Radcliffe was not my cup of tea so Radio 2 folk show gone for me. Genevieve Tudor Sunday Folk - gone - I liked that one so much I appeared as a guest to play some of my favourite cd tracks and talk about them. Colum Sands Folk Club on Radio Ulster - gone.

I have tried others but have not found anything worth sticking with. The Tim Walker programme was fine, lots of variety, and I have some artists to look up on the internet today as a result. I will listen again just so I keep hearing new stuff. I particularly liked The Trials of Cato's version of Bedlam Boys

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: DaveRo
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 07:55 AM

No sessions?

If you're asking about Tim Walker's show, no. I don't know whether he used to do them. I think all BBC local stations have stopped doing sessions. They all - or the ones I've looked at - seem to be running a simplified schedule with these 4 hour evening shows.

Genevieve Tudor seems to be hanging in there on Shropshire, having purloined the last hour of somebody's slot. She used to host sessions for local artists, which is what I think these local radio shows should do, not plugging the lastest releases - unless it is a local artist. I actually like her one-hour programme better than her previous 2hrs ;) And you get some You get some out-of-the-ordinary stuff with Genevieve - Clive Palmer's band last week.

Lincolnshire giving Tim Walker 4 hours contrasts greatly with my local station, Kent, where Doug Welch has lost his measly one hour show. He hosted sessions, did whats-ons, and played something by those artists - however young and unknown except in Brighton. Unfortunately he seemed obliged to play frequent jingles and station announcements too, such that he mas always running out of time.

I used to listen to folk shows on BBC Radio London, Beds Herts and Bucks (now 3 Counties Radio) and Oxford. None of them have such programmes now. It's a reverse North South divide!

My idea for anybody hosting a local folk radio show: look at the 'Official' Folk Album Chart - and play none of it

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 04:28 AM

No sessions?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: DaveRo
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 04:22 AM

GUEST,matt milton wrote: Last Sunday night's 'Tim Walker's Folk' show on BBC Radio Lincs was an epic 4 hours' long.

I downloaded that and, over the past week, have listened to about 3½ hours of it so far. I'd not heard Tim Walker's show before and I quite enjoyed it. Usual BBC local radio folk show mix but less chat (which is surprising for a 4hr show), no jingles thank goodness, and more tunes than usual. And it got better as it went on and the tracks became less predictable.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 12 Apr 21 - 04:44 PM

Outlook (World Service)
- 40 min - available for over one year
The break-up that cost me my voice

"Shirley Collins grew up in a folk music-loving family in Sussex, England, during World War Two, and announced her intention to become a folk singer when she was still just a teenager. Her career would lead her to record music with her sister Dolly; to record folk songs in America with legendary song collector Alan Lomax, and to become a key figure in the 'folk revival' of the 1960s and 1970s.
But the trauma of a painful break-up cost Shirley her singing voice - "sometimes I would open my mouth and nothing would come out", she remembers - and led to a heartbreaking decision: "I walked away from music for years. I felt I had no option." Shirley did all sorts of jobs to support her children, and avoided even listening to music sometimes - it made her too sad. Then one day, the musician David Tibet, a huge fan, got in touch and begged Shirley to try to sing again. Shirley tells Emily Webb the story of a voice lost and found again."

Presenter: Emily Webb
Producer: Laura Thomas


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09ddj9n

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,Jiggers
Date: 12 Apr 21 - 10:01 AM

The Untold - Shanty Fever , R4 Mon 12 Apr

When sea shanties suddenly blew up on social media, a shanty band from Bristol found themselves heading for the big time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v1n8

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 10 Apr 21 - 11:06 AM

Open Country 3pm Thursday BBC Radio 4

15 April 2021 Songs of England;
English Heritage manages some of our most important historic sites, such as Stonehenge and Hadrian's Wall. In this Open Country, folk singer and song collector Sam Lee explains how he has paired these sites with relevant or revealing folk songs from the British Isles.

We meet Sam at Stonehenge, to hear him perform the song 'John Barleycorn'. From Salisbury we travel to Hadrian's Wall with The Brothers Gillespie and the borders song 'When Fortune Turns the Wheel'. At Whitby Abbey Fay Hield performs the tragic tale of 'The Whitby Lad' and at Ironbridge, the birthplace of industry, Abel Selaocoe sings about the impacts of the industrial revolution in 'The Four Loom Weaver'.

22 April 2021 Fisherwomen;
The voices - though no mention of song - of the women who mend the nets, gut the fish and fix the lines of Britain's fishing fleets. "I started at seventeen as a v-boner. I was everywhere, on the barding, skinning, heading. My last job was in defrost. I was the only one woman in defrost." Dawn Walton

This rarely heard community have been recorded by landscape photographer Craig Easton and include a trawler skipper called Sheila Hirsch with a gripping account of 'going over the wall' or into the sea. "I've been lucky," she says. "I've been over the wall three times, and each time I've been alright."

Subject: RE: BBC Radio this week
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Apr 21 - 06:19 AM

Ah! The March of time!

Thanks Freddy!