BBC Radio 4 - April 2020 lockdown performances

Subject: BBC Radio 4 April 2020 lockdown performances
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 06:28 AM

The Today programme runs every morning on week days from 6 till 9am. During lockdown, it is playing out to a live performance of poetry or music.

I've heard Ben Murray - who should be on tour as the Songman with War Horse - singing And The Snow Falls. It was repeated on Pick of the Week on 19 April 2020.

On Wednesday 22 April it was Will Pound playing harmonica. He should have been setting off for a festival in Latvia.

And Loose Ends has a lockdown session too. On Saturday 18 Apr 2020 Emily Barker and Lucas Drinkwater - now living in Stroud - performed Hello In There, and very sensitively too.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 April 2020
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 06:32 AM

You'd have thought that in a three-hour show they could spare more than about 25 seconds at the end to play us out! Great idea though.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 April 2020
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 12:14 PM

Radio 4 16:30 Sunday 26 April The Dam;

Forty years ago, a great dam was constructed across the Kielder Valley in one of the wildest corners of Northumberland.

It had also been a place of music and song, dancing and legends. With David Almond, Mike Tickell, Kathryn Tickell and Georgia Russell.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 April 2020
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 01:46 PM

the Dam ,was interesting,isolated places yet more people visted each other wrote poetry, told stories,played cards, proper socialising, ALL THEIR CULTURE WAS DESTROYED

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 April 2020
From: JHW
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 03:01 PM

Agree Dick, excellent programme this afternoon (R4 4.30 Sun 26th) Dare say like me you guessed all along who the daughter Kathryn was.
Hawkhope Hill wonderful song by Terry Conway I was priveledged to hear (in right accent) by Brian Watson who also sang Kielder Hunt. RIP both these guys.
Useful reminder just now of culture destroyed.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 April 2020
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 03:08 PM

I missed this one today; ITV3 Midsomer Murders; The organiser of Lower Crosby Folk Festival is found dead. It seems the murder may have been inspired by The Ballad of Midsomer County.

In fact, the lyrics (and the screenplay) have been written by Paul Logue, and set to music by folk singer-songwriter Seth Lakeman, who also accompanies Lucie Jones on guitar and fiddle on the soundtrack. The folk festival takes place at Nettlebed Village Hall, where the Nettlebed Folk Club (NFC) meets. Several of NFC's regular singers are featured in the episode.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 - April 2020 lockdown performances
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 12:11 PM

just heard 'The Dam' on BBC radio player- the presentation was a little worthy for my taste, but it did capture the nature of the pre- dam culture in that area. I was often hiking up there in the 60s and it was a special place, well illustrated by the Tickells.
Ironic that the dam was built largely for the industry of the north east- especially the steel and chemical plants of Teesside- these are of course now a pale shadow of their former selves.
It made all the more poignant Mike Tickell'sScottish friend's observation as the water flowed into the dam- 'Mike, what have we done?'.
There's no going back......

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 - April 2020 lockdown performances
From: Newport Boy
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 12:34 PM

I've posted this in another thread but can't remember when.

KIELDOR WATTOR

Th'ore ganna build a reserwor, nee matter what the cost,
Th'ore ganna mak a dam at Yarra Moor;
Hes nee one thowt ti tell them aal the things that mun be lost,
Afore she's lappin' on hor final shore?

They say the wattor's needit for big industry on Tees,
But, - as that rivvor hes neen uv its aan, -
Then, i' the name u' Progress, they pick North Tyne, if ye please
Ti prosper thor greet economic plan!

An' while th'ore busy prosp'rin', will they heor the field-mice caal,
When risin' wattors closin' ower thor heids?
Them little droonded bodies piled aginst thor greet eorth waal,
A price ti pay for Cleveland's desp'rate needs?

Whee's ganna write the wattorhen, (in triplicate, ye knaa)
An' tell hor jist hoo hee ti build hor nest?
Gi' tables u' the floodin' rate ti let hor knaa hoo far
Up shore she should be layin' for the best?

Whee's ganna tell the warblors they mun lay thor eggs elsewheor,
In case th'ore floodit oot afore th'ore hatched?
Whee'll tell the spaanin' salmon that she cannit lep up theor,
An's floond'rin' doon belaa until she's catched?

Whee'll listen when the wayside flooers is cryin' oot i'vain,
Aginst that flood wi' its relentless spreed?
Or heor belaa the wattors aal the thistles shoot wi' pain,
Or daisies groanin' doon amang the deed?

Will th'end be sharp an' morciful, wi' days an' days u' rain
So's iv'ry deeth bi droonin' will be quick?
Or will the creepin' wattors ooze up iv'ry burn an' drain,
A rate u' centimeetors bi the week?

An' when the work is ower, an' she's filled up ti the brim,
A greet blue sheet u' wattor, shore ti shore,
They'll come up in thor thoosands, an' we'll aal be tellin' thim
Hoo bonnie ran the North Tyne theor afore.

They've startit on that reserwor, - Aa've bin theor an' med sure,
Aa feort the Pooers-that-be wes ganna win;
But when they stan' theor smug an' prood atop u' Yarra Moor,
LET'S SNEAK AHINT AN' HOY THE BEGGORS IN!

ROBERT ALLEN
BELLINGHAM.
(about 1975)

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 - April 2020 lockdown performances
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 01:36 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Kielder Water / Kieldor Wattor
From: peregrina Date: 01 Mar 11 - 06:11 PM

Another song about this, on Mike Tickell's CD Warksburn: Bonnie North Tyne