BBC Radio This week 2022

Subject: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 09:52 AM

Sky Arts TV Sunday 2 January 3pm-4pm
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.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 10:00 AM

BBC Folk Show Wednesday 9pm-10pm - BBC Radio 2 and on demand on BBC Sounds

05 January 2022 Grace Petrie plays live
Songwriter Grace Petrie performs songs from her latest album, Connectivity.

12 January 2022 Sensational acoustic sounds from Punch Brothers
Folk and acoustic music, with Punch Brothers' Chris Thile and Chris Eldridge.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 11:16 AM

The Runrig film is superb - I saw it when it was first on Sky Arts

It'll be great to hear Grace - we bought tickets pre Covid to see her at the Crescent in York but the gig got postponed until this May. Looking forward to it

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 03:48 PM

Sky Arts TV Tuesday 4 January

4pm-4.30pm Joni Mitchell; Music Icons

7pm-9pm Leonard Cohen; I'm Your Man (Film 2005)

9pm-9.30pm Discovering; Paul Simon

Subject: Folklore: The Lore of the Land
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 01:18 PM

The Lore of the Land (Omnibus)(folklore, no music)
Dr Carolyne Larrington with local experts
R4 extra (until ~26january 2022)

An examination of the enduring relevance of the creatures of British folklore.

She begins in Shropshire at the foot of the mighty Wrekin, in search of the most prolific landscape shapers in British folk tales - the giants.

In Marden, she explores freshwater mermaids and other folkloric creatures that are said to live in Britain's rivers and ponds.

Next In Windsor Great Park, where folkloric creatures are said to lurk in Britain's woodlands and forests.

In Orkney, where folkloric creatures are said to dwell in the sea and on the shore.

Finally in North Yorkshire, Dr Carolyne explores the folkloric creatures said to reside on Britain's farms.

Producer: Max O'Brien

A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2015.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012nsb

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 04:10 AM

Saturday 8 January 16:00 BBC Radio 3 - and on demand on BBC Sounds - Music Planet; Krar Collective in session

Kathryn Tickell presents a live session from London-based Ethiopian trio Krar Collective, plus the latest roots-based releases from across the globe and a track from classic artist Lucha Reyes of Peru.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 04:23 PM

Thursday 6 January 20:00 to 22:00 Travelling Folk New Music and Resolutions
BBC Scotland - available live and on demand on BBC Sounds

Bruce MacGregor gets the New Year started with some resolution inspired tracks; from drinking less to going vegan, folk music has you covered! Plus loads of new music from the likes of Talisk, Julie Fowlis, Megan Henderson and Niteworks, as well as a bumper edition of our BBC Introducing feature.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 06 Jan 22 - 11:41 AM

Sunday 9th May 2021 BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 Folk by Nell Leyshon

This play about Cecil Sharp in Somerset is at the Hampstead Theatre, London, until 5 February.

The Guardian; Folk review – a beautifully brooding tale of song and sisterhood.

Folk review

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 06 Jan 22 - 02:53 PM

Folk, a play about Cecil Sharp, is at the Hampstead Theatre, London, until 5 February.

Sharp, then principal of the Hampstead Conservatoire of Music, had come to visit the village curate, Charles Marson. It was in Hambridge, courtesy of Marson’s gardener, John England, that he first heard an old song that was new to him, Seeds of Love. Telegraph

Review

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 05:42 AM

BBC Radio 4 Friday 7 January 2021 10:00am Woman's Hour

Cecil Sharp in Somerset; Identity and Englishness - with archive recording of Louie Hooper from 1942!

Cecil Sharp is known as the godfather of English folk music. In a bid to preserve the English folk song at the turn of the twentieth century, when many in the musical world didn't believe England had a musical tradition of its own, he collected and memorialised thousands of traditional English folk songs from rural communities in England. However, less is known about the people he collected these songs from.

FOLK is a new play at Hampstead Theatre in London written by Nell Leyshon, the British dramatist and novelist born in Glastonbury, Somerset. She tells us the true story of Louie Hooper and Lucy White, two half-sisters from Somerset who Cecil Sharp collected hundreds of songs from.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 06:04 AM

This has just been trailered and discussed with the author on Woman's hour, Radio 4, towards the end of the program.

Robin

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 08:36 AM

^ link for the Woman's Hour interview about 'FOLK'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00132xj
> skip to ~27:10 (approx 12 minutes)

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 11 Jan 22 - 05:26 PM

BBC Radio 4, 11 January 2022 Front Row; on demand on BBC Sounds

From: Mr Red Date: 11 Jan 22 - 03:22 PM A review on BBC R4 reviews the play about Sharp collecting songs in Somerset, particularly impoverished Louie Hooper & her sister.

Folk, currently playing at the Hampstead Theatre chronicles Cecil Sharp’s mission to preserve England’s rural folk music.
Writer Nell Leyshon and director Roxana Silbert discuss the process of adapting this real life history for the stage.

BBC "Front Row" prog review starts at 28:40 with Joan Baez singing. Front Row

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 18 Jan 22 - 03:22 PM

Thursday 20 Jan 9:00pm Sky Arts TV Bob Dylan; The Other Side of the Mirror

Bob's appearances at Newport Folk Festival 1963 to 1965

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 19 Jan 22 - 06:00 AM

Wednesday 19 January 9:00pm BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe
Bristol shanty singers The Longest Johns talk about surfing the recent wave of online shanties, and recording their new album, Smoke & Oakum.

Wednesday 26 January 9:00pm BBC Radio 2
Vermont singer and writer Anaïs Mitchell talks about her new self-titled album. The record is Anaïs' first solo release since the enormous success of her Grammy and Tony Award-winning musical, Hadestown.

Wednesday 2 February 9:00pm BBC Radio 2
Ricky Ross sits in

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: DaveRo
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 01:14 PM

This, on the BBC World Service, was good
Music that survived the Nazis

There is a common misconception that music under the Nazis was either ‘Degenerate Music’ to be suppressed or propaganda music that was officially sanctioned. Historian Shirli Gilbert shows that there was a wealth of different music-making during this period, including secret sessions by Jewish musicians and others, that managed to evade official scrutiny.

In this first episode, she explores the music of the Jewish Culture League, as well as the work of Lukraphon and Semer, two Jewish record labels active at this time. This includes a huge range of works recorded in Nazi Germany, from orchestral pieces to cabaret songs to religious singing of enormous beauty.

Lots of excerpts from, and accounts of, artists who were recorded on those record labels, two of whom I looked up on YouTube
Dora Gerson
Israel Bakon

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 03:11 PM

In 2015 Jim Causley worked with BBC TV historian Dr Sam Willis to create the music for his series ‘Highwaymen, Outlaws and Villains’.

1/3 The Highwayman's Story 16 days left to watch
2/3 Pirates 23 days left to watch
3/3 Rogues Gallery BBC Four TV 7:10-8:10 Saturday 22/01/2022

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: DaveRo
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 03:26 PM

Sam Willis is an actual guitar-playing historian. He took his guitar on his re-enactment of Powell's journey down the Colorado and through the Grand Canyon, which is worth watching.

The highwaymen series is worth watching too, but this folk music interval doesn't add to it IMO.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 11:52 AM

The Folk Show BBC Radio2 9:00pm Wednesday
26 January Vermont singer and writer Anaïs Mitchell talks about her new self-titled album. The record is Anaïs' first solo release since the enormous success of her Grammy and Tony Award-winning musical, Hadestown.
2 February Ricky Ross sits in and shares live session tracks recorded during Glasgow's Celtic Connections. With Orkney band Gnoss, acclaimed instrumental group Kinnaris Quintet,
and more.
9 February This week, there's a focus on songs about real people, and upcoming songwriter Flo Perlin sings live. Flo, whose inspirations include her Jewish Iraqi and Belarusian heritage, released her second album, Characters, in 2021.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Rain Dog
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 07:56 AM

On BBC Radio 4 right now. The food Programme

Wassail! Wassail! A celebration of cider, orchards and song


Dan Saladino goes in search of the history, meaning and spirit of wassails and cider. In Somerset he takes part in a village wassail sung door to door and one sung in an orchard.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 10:18 AM

Yes Rain Dog , it is well worth listening. It also includes talk of Cecil Sharpe's song collecting and an interview with the writer of the new play, FOLK, is which is mentioned above

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 31 Jan 22 - 02:47 AM

Wassail, Wassail.
Repeated on BBC Radio 4 on Monday afternoon at 3.30.
Available on BBC Sounds for over a year.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 05 Feb 22 - 07:44 PM


Music that survived the Nazis: Part two
Thu 3 Feb 2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c7z



and a programme with some feedback
Over to You -
Making the documentary Music that Survived the Nazis -

Your reactions to the moving documentary Music that Survived the Nazis - its presenter and producer join us to explain how the programme was made.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct1l2q

They mentioned a Spotify playlist
but I can't find one.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 06:21 PM

BBC Radio 3 Monday 21:30 Northern Drift

7 February Jake Morris-Campbell and Will Pound
Tyneside poet Jake Morris-Campbell, virtuoso harmonica player Will Pound and Glasgow-based guitarist Jenn Butterworth join Elizabeth Alker at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.

14 February Helen Mort and Will Pound
Sheffield-based poet Helen Mort, harmonica player Will Pound and guitarist Jenn Butterworth join Elizabeth Alker at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.

21 February Clare Shaw and Robin Richards
Poet Clare Shaw and multi-instrumentalist Robin Richards from the band Dutch Uncles join Elizabeth Alker at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 06:35 PM

Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan Music Podcasts

Actors Kerry Shale and Lucas Hare talk to interesting people about Bob Dylan. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.

Location: London, United Kingdom
Twitter: @isitrollingpod
Website: https://isitrollingbobtalkingdylan.podbean.com

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 02:23 PM

BBC2 TV Great Coastal Railway Journeys

Tuesday 8 February 6:30pm Newcastle to Lynemouth Series 1 Episode 12 of 25
Next stop is the former coal port of Blyth. On the historic quayside Michael enjoys a hearty sea shanty (The Keelers) and learns about an intrepid former townsman, Captain William Smith, who in 1819 discovered the Antarctic.

Wednesday 9 February 6:30pm Morpeth to Amble Series 1 Episode 13 of 25
Michael Portillo explores the wild and rugged coastline of Northumberland by rail. He begins today in Morpeth, where he finds a historic collection of Northumbrian bagpipes and discovers how difficult they are to play.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 06:20 PM

Could we have a separate thread for UK TV?

(or a change of title)

(I don't have easy access to TV)

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 02:58 PM

FAO Freddy Headey

Here's the Spotify playlist for the BBC World Service series 'Music that Survived the Nazis':

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4MpCuZxWkfXoaHOgATPQq2

Programmes below
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c7z
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c7y


Further info here
http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: DaveRo
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 03:07 PM

GUEST wrote: Here's the Spotify playlist for the BBC World Service series 'Music that Survived the Nazis'

That's good - I'm not subscribed to Spotify and don't have it's app on this Android tablet, but it plays fine in Firefox. Thanks for posting that.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 11:36 AM

Thursday 10 February BBC Radio 4 4pm Poetry Please

Growing up with a grandfather who wore gold sovereign rings and took her to the Appleby Horse Fair Jo Clement absorbed the Romany traditions he showed her. Her poetry addresses life for a marginalised people from the Traveller girls used for a fashion shoot to the gatherings and customs of Gypsy people.

Jo is Editor of Butcher's Dog Poetry Magazine and her first collection of poems Outlandish is published this year by Bloodaxe. Among her choices of poetry requests are John Clare's To The Snipe, Preface from Swims by Elizabeth Jane Burnett and Nightingales by fellow Romany poet David Morley.

It finished with Queen Caroline Hughes singing Sheep Crook and Black Dog.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: DaveRo
Date: 16 Feb 22 - 05:31 PM

I'm just lisening to this, as I do every week:
Genevieve Tudor's Sunday Folk - Available now (4)

Last week's (6/2/22) had many songs Norma Waterson and her family. This week (13/2/22) has lots of unusual stuff, including Ralph McTell with Wizz Jones, and Biscuit Head and the Biscuit Badgers*.

*What is it about biscuits? There used to be a band calked Half Man Half Biscuit.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Reinhard
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 12:03 AM

I love to listen to Genevieve's show too but for the last two weeks' programmes I'm getting the error message "This content is not available in your location" (which is Germany).

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: DaveRo
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 02:51 AM

Is that using the normal BBC website or Sounds app? Genevieve's is one of several BBC radio programmes I download automatically with get iplayer which may not be be so restrictive.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: DaveRo
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 03:14 AM

Looking through the FAQ I see that geo-blocking in get_iplayer can be avoided by using lower bitrate streams
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/faq#nonuk
Not much good for TV but 96k radio should sound OK. You may be able to specify that in the BBC Sounds app itself.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 03:47 AM

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: DaveRo - PM
Date: 16 Feb 22 - 05:31 PM

I'm just lisening to this, as I do every week:
Genevieve Tudor's Sunday Folk - Available now (4)

Last week's (6/2/22) had many songs Norma Waterson and her family. This week (13/2/22) has lots of unusual stuff, including Ralph McTell with Wizz Jones, and Biscuit Head and the Biscuit Badgers*.

*What is it about biscuits? There used to be a band calked Half Man Half Biscuit."
it takes the Biscuit

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: DaveRo
Date: 18 Feb 22 - 04:03 AM

After dillient research I have failed to find a connection between Biscuithead and the Biscuit Badgers, as featured by Genevieve, and Half Man Half Biscuit other than the twice-cooked commestible itself - Bicciepedia etc.

I remember driving down the M6 with the children in the back, listening to Radio Stoke on Trent to get the traffic news, and the 'disk jockey' kept referring to CDs - they were probably rather novel at that time - as biscuits. "Cracking biscuit that!" he'd enthuse after every track. It became a catchphrase in our house for a while.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 18 Feb 22 - 07:14 PM

Here's the link for the Northern Drift series mentioned by henryp.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0011tqc

Two programmes are available at the moment, the third should be available on the 21st Feb.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,Diolch
Date: 19 Feb 22 - 11:13 AM

Glad to hear there are other keen fans of Genevieve Tudor's show here, and I hope Reinhard has found access. My second favourite is the always unexpected Oota Da Cans, which is an hour a month from Shetland.

I see BBC Radio 2's new project 21st Century Folk, based in the north-east of England, hasn't been mentioned on this thread yet so here's a link:

https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2022/21st-century-folk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/12DGLdmk0fbwjF8M9V04kwR/21st-century-folk

"Radio 2 is always looking for ways to tell stories, and 21st Century Folk is a creatively ambitious and hugely exciting new endeavour. Following in the tradition of the Radio Ballads, I’m proud that in the BBC’s centenary year we will be telling the real life stories of our listeners in the North East of England, using original music to create a lasting legacy of their experiences."

"BBC Radio 2, in partnership with BBC Local Radio, launches 21st Century Folk, an ambitious initiative to capture the essence of life in the North East of England in 2022 - the BBC’s centenary year – through the prism of folk songs, and offering people from the region the opportunity to have a song written about their life."

"Anyone (aged over 18 years) living in the North East of England is invited to get in touch, tell us about their day to day life – or an inspiring person they know – and share stories and anecdotes about doing the sorts of job that make the country tick in 2022, whether a teacher, nurse, delivery driver, junior football coach, scientist, coffee shop barista, student, shop worker or anything else that defines the UK in these shifting times. In March, five participants will be selected from all the submissions by a panel comprised of representatives from the 21st Century Folk team, Radio Newcastle, Radio Tees and a songwriter (to be announced closer to the time). Later in the Spring they will be paired with and meet the songwriters who’ll be creating the music from their stories. They and their songwriter will really get to know each other, with their meetings recorded and filmed for documentaries that will air on Radio 2 in the autumn."

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,Diolch
Date: 26 Feb 22 - 05:29 PM

On 17 Feb the BBC Radio Scotland weekly 2 hour folk programme Travelling Folk, which is always worth a listen, did a special about folk music in video games including example tracks, and interviews with a composer and musicians, and even interviews with a few gamers. The emphasis was, of course, on Scottish traditional music including Gaelic song.

I'm late to this but it's still available on listen again etc (the news at the beginning is 5mins if you want to skip):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014fhw

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 26 Feb 22 - 05:51 PM

BBC Radio 4 Banding: Love, Spit and Valve Oil Thursday 11.30

3 March 2022 The mines are dead, but the music and the people are not
10 March 2022 What’s the allure of brass?
17 March 2022 The pursuit of excellence

Folk musician Martin Green explores the phenomenon that is modern brass banding. After following a poster at the National Mining Museum Scotland that said "brass in the park, this Saturday", Martin discovered one of the most inspiring social music making acts he'd ever witnessed.

Determined to find out what continues to draw people into brass banding, both musically and socially, Martin decides to write a piece of music for brass band and seek advice from those in the community. He finds a series of interesting juxtapositions and discovers the important role brass banding has in people's lives

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Rain Dog
Date: 20 Apr 22 - 03:02 AM

On BBC Radio 4 extra this morning. Originally broadcast in 2015.

2 episodes in total.


On The Road - Different Musical Directions

Maddy Prior and daughter Rose Kemp discuss their totally different musical journeys.

Maddy Prior has been the lead singer of Steeleye Span since they formed in 1969. Since then the band has had dozens of members, some have left for good, some have left and re-joined, Maddy herself, who is still with Steeleye, describes it as a 'bus' with people jumping on and off.

In the first of two programmes, Maddy and her daughter Rose Kemp discuss how music has taken them in different directions.

Whereas Maddy is at the very heart of the folk and traditional music establishment, Rose is a major artist in the doom and drone metal scene, the slower heavier take on heavy metal. Together Maddy and Rose discuss their music and how it was they have followed such different musical paths.

Specially for this series, Rose and Maddy have composed and recorded brand new, original songs alongside artists, especially selected by the other.

Rose has linked up with Bellowhead front man Jon Boden to record a song she has written to explore the difficult subject of rape in marriage while Maddy collaborated with Dylan Carlson, part of the Seattle music scene and head of the metal band Earth.

Long standing fans of Maddy's and Steeleye will definitely be surprised at the way she uses her famous voice to fit the guitars of Carlson's arrangement.

Along the way, Rose and Maddy come together to discuss the world of music, feminism and misogyny in the folk world, spirituality, and how they view the world and their relationship through their different musical styles.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Apr 22 - 05:32 AM

Thanks for that. Available on demand, but it doesn't say for how long.

Maddy's father, Allan Prior, was a scriptwriter for the BBC - he wrote 150 episodes of Z Cars! Late Night Line-Up would end the night on BBC2, and I remember the night when a young couple, Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, unexpectedly appeared.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Apr 22 - 09:21 AM

Wednesday 20 April 2022

17:00 BBC Radio 3 In Tune
Folk quartet Flook perform live in the studio ahead of their UK tour.

21:00 BBC Radio 4 Folk Show
Including springlike tunes from Show of Hands and Georgia Ruth, nature tracks for Earth Day and World Curlew Day, and soundtrack music from BBC dramas Peaky Blinders and Gentleman Jack.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 Apr 22 - 05:38 AM

BBC Radio 3 Folk sessions from World on 3

A selection of the many folk artists who have performed in session for us…Folk Sessions

Lynched, Julie Fowlis, Sam Lee, The Young'Uns and many more...and finally a wonderful session from The Voice Squad.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Rain Dog
Date: 02 May 22 - 04:17 AM

On BBC Radio 4 this morning at 10.00

Women's Hour - Women and Folk Music

"This May bank holiday Emma looks at women and the tradition of folk music. You may have a stereotypical image of a woman in a floaty dress walking through a flower meadow - but we want to challenge that. From protest songs and feminist anthems - it's not all whimsy in the world of folk.

Emma talks to Peggy Seeger who has enjoyed six decades of success with her music. Peggy was married to the singer Ewen McColl. He wrote the song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" for her. Together they revitalised the British Folk Scene during the 50s and 60s, working on the BBC Radio Ballads; ground-breaking documentaries - which wove a story from the words of real people working in the mining and fishing industry or building the M1 motorway with sound effects, and songs. Now 86 years old, Peggy's own songs have become anthems for feminists, anti-nuclear campaigners and those fighting for social justice.

Emma examines the uncomfortable elements of folk music, and how artists are finding ways of reinterpreting old songs, or writing new ones to represent missing narratives and stories. Who were the female tradition-bearers, writers and performers and the often forgotten collectors - those who would record and notate traditional songs handed down orally from generation to generation? And what is being done to improve the gender equality and diversity in folk music?"

It will be available to listen to shortly after broadcast.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 13 May 22 - 04:37 AM

Saturday 07 May 2022 BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends 24 days left to listen on BBC Sounds

Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Steven Moffat and Janey Godley for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ye Vagabonds and Paul Brady.

Saturday 14 May 2022 16:00 BBC Radio 3 Music Planet

Kathryn Tickell with a studio session from Irish Trad folk duo Ye Vagabonds, American blues man Sonny Terry is this week's classic artist, plus new releases from across the globe.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 May 22 - 08:29 AM

The Composer of the Week on Radio 3 this week has been Vaughan Williams, always of interest to us folk aficionados (I refuse to call us "folkies!").

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 13 May 22 - 12:51 PM

Across BBC Radio 3 schedules from Wednesday 3 March to Sunday 29 May as part of national RWV150 celebrations. Highlights include:

A complete Vaughan Williams’ Symphony Cycle broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in Concert over six programmes, featuring performances by BBC Philharmonic and the Hallé (2 March - 12 May)

A four- week series of Composer of the Week, dedicating twenty hour-long episodes to Vaughan Williams (2-27 May)

Between The Ears: The Lark Descending featuring a new electronic re-imagining of Vaughan William’s beloved piece, where a sampled lark performs its renowned violin solo (29 May)

Breakfast explores Vaughan Williams’ Folk Songs and Hymns (weekday 2-13 May & Sunday Breakfast 1-29 May)

In Tune Mixtape presenting special Vaughan Williams (inspired playlists using works by the composer, or inspired by him 9-13 May)

Record Review’s Building a Library feature focuses on Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 4 (14 May)

Essential Classics devotes five Essential Moments to Vaughan Williams (23 to 27 May)

Opera on 3 presents an archive performance of the opera Sir John in Love first broadcast from English National Opera in 2006 (14 May)

Royal Northern College of Music Brass Band Festival Highlights celebrating Vaughan Williams amongst some of Britain’s finest 20th century contributors to brass band repertoire (2 March)

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 13 May 22 - 06:46 PM

I'm loving all this RVW. Trying to keep up with Composer of the Week (month!) whilst on holiday!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 May 22 - 05:22 AM

The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song by Caroline Davison will be published by Chatto & Windus in August 2022, the 150th anniversary of Vaughan Williams's birth.   

I am enjoying Caroline Davison's blog on the first year of Vaughan Williams's listening journey into folk song - from the first song he collected in December 1903 (‘Bushes and Briars’) to the moment he heard ‘The Captain’s Apprentice’ in January 1905.

We have even been for lunch at the Olde Dog at Herongate/Little Burstead/East Horndon. The blog can be found here: Ralph Vaughan Williams's Journey into Folk substack

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Felipa
Date: 15 May 22 - 11:41 AM

Peggy Seeger was also interviewed on the Culture Café on Radio Ulster, along with her son Calum MacColl, on Sat. 14 May 2022. The programme starts at 18.05 BST (UTC+1); I think the Seeger and MacColl interview was at about 18.30 (I listened on radio).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017b5r

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 19 May 22 - 03:41 PM

BBC Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Episodes available;

Acoustic music with guest Paul Brady 8 days left to listen

Bringing in the May 15 days left to listen

Boo Hewerdine sings new songs 22 days left to listen

Acoustic sounds with guest Heidi Talbot 29 days left to listen

Martin Freeman sits in 25 May 2022

1 June 2022

8 June 2022

Music inspired by British wildlife 15 June 2022

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Rain Dog
Date: 24 May 22 - 07:24 AM

On BBC Radio 4 this morning and now available to listen to

Black Roots - Episode 1


Episode One – Frank Johnson, Joe Thompson and the fiddle in North Carolina.

Black Roots

String bands, hoedowns, square dances, old-time fiddle and banjo styles, these sounds were a dominant strand in African American roots music from the 17th century onwards. Despite this, many people think that such music comes solely from dungaree-wearing, white rural folk. Country might appear to be the whitest of all music genres, but it has some surprising roots.

How have these black roots been whitewashed from the history of American folk and country music? How have folk and country been positioned as white genres? What does black Americana sound like today?

In this episode, acclaimed musician Rhiannon Giddens returns to her home state of North Carolina to explore the lives of two black fiddlers - Joe Thompson and Frank Johnson. Johnson was one of the first black celebrities in the Southern states of the USA. Born into slavery, he bought freedom for himself and his family on the back of his profits as a musician. More than 2,000 people processed through Wilmington, North Carolina for his funeral in 1871. Though he died before the start of the recording industry, his music was passed down through generations of black fiddlers in the region. The last of these fiddlers was Joe Thompson, who taught Rhiannon countless songs.

Featuring Iris Thompson Chapman, Phil Jamison, John Jeremiah Sullivan and Dr. Lewin Manly.

Presented by Rhiannon Giddens
Produced by Tom Woolfenden

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 May 22 - 12:44 PM

thanks, interesting

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 25 May 22 - 08:04 AM

Holst and Vaughan Williams: Making Music English BBC iplayer 27 days left to watch

Historian Amanda Vickery and broadcaster Tom Service unearth the fascinating story of the life-long friendship between composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst, whose music gave birth to the 'English sound' in the first half of the 20th century. They retrace the walking trips the two composers took together across the country to discover how influences ranging from the Renaissance masters to folk music imbued their music with the 'Englishness' we recognise today. Illustrating the story, the BBC Concert Orchestra perform excerpts of both composers' music.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 25 May 22 - 09:05 AM

BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Petroc Trelawny follows the Great Glen (Monday 6 June – Friday 10 June)

Monday 6 June; From the foreshore at Cromarty. There’s traditional folk music played by Highland-based, internationally-acclaimed Celtic harpist Isbel Pendlebury on the clarsach - the country’s oldest national instrument.

Tuesday 7 June; From the north-east shore of Loch Ness at Dores. Live music is provided by Duncan Chisholm, one of Scotland's most recognised and accomplished fiddle players and composers; piper and whistle player Ross Ainslie, three times nominated for Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards; and Glasgow multi-instrumentalist Innes Watson.

Wednesday 8 June; From the Caledonian Canal staircase at Fort Augustus.

Thursday 9 June; From the harbour side at Oban. With performances from the Oban Gaelic choir, one of the oldest competition choirs in the Gaelic-speaking world.

Friday 10 June; At the further point west on the Isle of Mull. Live music is provided by local musicians fiddle player singer and composer Hannah Fisher and guitarist Sorren Maclean, who have built busy careers as solo artists and collaborators.

WOMAD: BBC Radio 3 celebrates WOMAD at 40 with a weekend of special broadcasts, including performances by some of the headline acts, introduced by Lopa Kothari (Saturday 30 & Sunday 31 July). Details will be announced in due course.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 May 22 - 07:53 AM

Last week on the BBC's "Folk" Show, Martin Freeman (filling in) made Mark Radcliffe look almost as traditional as Sam Larner - as if there isn't enough Americanisation on our airwaves! In my book, Mike Harding didn't present enough trad music but he was better than those two.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 31 May 22 - 09:00 AM

BBC Radio 2 Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Wednesday 9:00pm

Tomorrow 1 June Acoustic escapes to Woodstock, Trinidad and Killiecrankie

8 June Judy Collins looks forward and back American folk legend Judy Collins talk about her life in music and her new album, Spellbound.
After more than 60 years of performing, Spellbound is Judy's first full set of self-penned songs.

15 June Wild Folk Mark presents a special episode filled with music inspired by British wildlife.

22 June The best in folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 31 May 22 - 03:29 PM

BBC Radio Scotland Orkney Folk Festival

Orkney Folk Festival

Special live from the Festival Club in Stromness, featuring some of the musicians taking part and of course Orkney's local talent.

26/05/2022 24 days left to listen
27/05/2022 25 days left to listen

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Rain Dog
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 06:48 AM

Originally broadcast in March this year and repeated last night on BBC Radio 4

Past Forward - A century of Sound


Greg Jenner hears a recording of the song Lord Rendall (sometimes known as Lord Randall) by Somerset folk singer Louie Hooper.

The recording was made in 1942 by the pioneering radio producer Douglas Cleverdon.

With his guests, the playwright Nell Leyshon and Tom Gray from the band Gomez, Greg explores the idea of musical ownership and how musicians are remunerated today.

Marking the centenary of the BBC, Past Forward uses a random date generator to alight somewhere in the BBC's vast archive over the past 100 years. Greg Jenner hears an archive clip for the first time at the top of the programme, and uses it as a starting point in a journey towards the present day. The archive captures a century of British life in a unique way - a history of ordinary people’s lives, as well as news of the great events. Greg uncovers connections through people, places and ideas that link the archive fragment to Britain in 2022, pulling in help from experts and those who remember the time, and looking at how far we've come since then.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Stanron
Date: 12 Jun 22 - 06:28 AM

I turned on Radio 3 this morning and almost the first thing I heard was Fluke playing Wrong Foot Forward. There's been no Folk Music since then but what a nice start to the day.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Stanron
Date: 12 Jun 22 - 06:52 AM

Oops, should that be Flook?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 04:33 AM

Susan MacFadyen Scottish Dance Band session on BBC Radio Scotland "Take the Floor" - 7pm tonight. Task Scheduler is set to record it as ever, I have 200+ sessions from that great programme!!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 05:01 AM

That's if you are not watching queen of the high jumpers Yaroslava Mahuchikh in the Paris Diamond League meeting!!!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 06:05 AM

Thanks Bonzo - I'd forgotten about "Take the Floor" but used to tune-in quite often about a decade ago...could have that Diamond League leg on the tele & TTF on a radio..?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 07:12 AM

Radio only if you are in Scotland, otherwise internet:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018fvs

or VLC - http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_scotland_fm.m3u8

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 07:21 AM

And of course Pipeline follows Take the Floor !

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 11:33 AM

Thanks - I still have BBC R Scot on my Sky favourites but, of course, could not have the athletics on as well that way.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 11:51 AM

A week or two ago, they had highlights from a past World Pipe Band Championships on BBC Alba - and I noted in my calendar 12/8/2022 for the next one, on Glasgow Green.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 02:08 PM

Gary Innes now - was Robbie Shepherd last time I listened to Take the Floor.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 03:17 PM

Very good - now what we need in England is something like "Get your clogs on", with English clog-dancing tunes, etc.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 03:43 PM

We had one about Morris dancing just a few years ago. My sword dance team were featured. In fact the BBC seem to have had quite a few programmes about Morris dancing in recent years.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 04:12 PM

Do you think there are enough good English tunes and musicians for a weekly programme, Manitas?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 06:12 PM

Something like Folkweave,perhaps?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 06:20 PM

Had to google that, Manitas - I didn't get into folk music until bumping into the 35th Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering in 2002.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Jun 22 - 02:38 PM

BBC Radio 3 In Tune Released On: 20 Jun 2022 Available on BBC Sounds for 29 days

Folk-singing doyenne Kate Rusby joins presenter Sean Rafferty to perform live in the studio, and we're joined by medieval folk band Joglaresa ahead of their concert at the Brighton Early Music Festival.

Soprano Rachel Nicholls and director Carmen Jakobi speak with Sean, too, about a new production of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt at Longborough Festival Opera.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Jun 22 - 02:50 PM

BBC Radio 3 In Tune Released On: 07 Jun 2022 Available 0n BBC Sounds for 16 days

Katie Derham is joined by Yorkshire folk duo Bryony Griffith and Alice Jones, playing live in the studio. She also meets soprano Sophie Bevan and countertenor Raffaele Pe, both currently starring in Handel's opera Tamerlano at The Grange Festival in Hampshire.

1 Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones My Johnny was a Shoemaker
5 Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones The Girl who was Poorly Clad
6 Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones Willy went to Westerdale

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Jun 22 - 06:49 PM

BBC Radio 3 Northern Drift

Monday 4 July 21.30 Elizabeth Alker presents another edition of our north-facing late-night show recorded before an audience at the Hebden Bridge Trades Club. Tonight's guests are Liverpudlian poet Mark Pajak and Leeds folk singer/composer Iona Lane.

Monday 11 July 21.30 Music and writing from the Hebden Bridge Trades Club in the heart of Calderdale. Today's artists are Northumberland poet Katrina Porteous and Leeds folk singer Iona Lane.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 Jun 22 - 12:18 AM

BBC Radio 3 Late Junction Stick in the Wheel and Sarah Angliss
Released On: 27 May 2022 Available for 5 days

Verity Sharp shares our latest collaboration session, recorded live in the studio, between east London duo Stick in the Wheel and multi-instrumentalist Sarah Angliss. Together, the three musicians respond to the work of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams as part of BBC Radio 3’s celebrations marking 150 years since his birth. Drawing from the composer’s A London Symphony as a starting point, their collaboration explores a joint interest in urban folklore and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s connection to the capital where the three artists all live and work.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Rain Dog
Date: 22 Jun 22 - 01:59 PM

On BBC Radio 4 Extra. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015

The true story of Abner Jay

Laura Barton pieces together the true story of Abner Jay, a most unusual musical talent.

Abner Jay was an itinerant musician – a modern-day minstrel. He was a one-man band, a songster, a storehouse of history and an off-colour raconteur; he was a direct line to a different era.

He said that his instruments were centuries old, passed down through his family. That his father and grandfather had been slaves. He claimed to have fathered 16 children, that daily doses of water from the Suwannee River kept him young and that he was 25 years younger than you think.

But you never know what to believe with Abner Jay.

What is certainly true is that he travelled the Southern states of the US with a converted mobile home which he opened out into a makeshift stage. And he was possibly the last performer of the 'bones' – a musical tradition that involved playing rhythms on cow and chicken bones dried in the sun.

The writer Laura Barton talks to those who knew him and those who love his music in an effort to dig beneath the myth and misdirection and reveal the true story of Abner Jay.

Featuring:

Sherry Sherrod Dupree
William Ferris
Jay Martin
Jack Teague
Brandie Watson

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 30 Jun 22 - 02:25 PM

From Pub to Pulpit; Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary Concert Tour. From Pub to Pulpit is a celebration of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 150th anniversary, and includes music from Broomdasher, Coracle and the Cathedral’s own choristers. An acapella folk group, a classically trained instrumental trio, twenty cathedral organists and choirs, community choirs and concert audiences will turn folk songs into hymns in a flagship nationwide tour.

It ends at the July 2023 Gloucester Cathedral Three Choirs Festival. Other venues this year include Chester, Derby, Newcastle, Exeter, Lincoln, Wells, Carlisle, Broadstairs and Ledbury, with 10 more in 2023. Fri 30 September Derby Cathedral and Derby Folk Festival Location: Derby Cathedral Tickets: £12 - £5

Every performance will be different, as the host organist will add their own influence and there will also be pre-show workshops for the local communities to practice singing. The musical arrangements, scores and tour brochure are also being posted free online, so that anyone, anywhere, can adapt them. For more information, visit broomdasher.com or coracleband.co.uk

From Pub to Pulpit is an imaginative and rousing concert tour that brings to life the musical journey of folk sings Vaughan Williams collected before “borrowing” the tunes for hymn arrangements in The English Hymnal he edited in 1906. This event is also the only project that crosses the boundaries of Vaughan Williams's work, bringing several genres together in a popular and accessible way, so is definitely not one to be missed!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 30 Jun 22 - 05:59 PM

henryp, is there a BBC radio link for From Pub to Pulpit please?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Jul 22 - 03:03 AM

No link to BBC, I'm afraid. I've posted it here as an addition to RVW 150 celebrations.

THe Broomdasher website has a list of performances completed and arranged with more to come, I hope.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Jul 22 - 11:32 AM

Folk Show Wednesday 9pm BBC Radio 2

29 June 25 days to listen Mark plays new music by Siobhan Miller, Adam Holmes and Bella Hardy. We also hear new collaborations by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and the Gigspanner Big Band with 'The Salt Path' author, Raynor Winn.

6 July Upcoming trio The Magpies play live and talk about creating their Magpies Festival, now in its second year. The York-based group are Bella Gaffney on guitar, Kate Griffin on banjo, and Holly Brandon on fiddle.

13 July

20 July

27 July 8pm Commonwealth of Folk Mark Radcliffe celebrates roots music from around the Commonwealth, ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. In a two-hour special, Mark plays music that connects the UK with Canada, India, Pakistan and Jamaica. His guests include Australian duo, The Weeping Willows.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 07 Jul 22 - 08:33 AM

Edinburgh Festival BBC Take the Floor Wednesday 10 August 2022 18:00 Doors open 17:30 Running time 2 hours St James Quarter, 30 St James Square, Edinburgh, EH1 3AY

Presenter Gary Innes is delighted to welcome you along to a special festival recording of the traditional music show which will feature two Scottish dance bands, providing the perfect ceilidh atmosphere. Wear sensible shoes as dancing is back!

BBC Shows, Tours and Take Part Tickets will be distributed via random draw. You can apply at any time until 11.55pm on Monday 25 July. Tickets are limited to two per recording and you can receive tickets for a maximum of five BBC events at this year's festival. You can follow us for latest updates and news on Twitter and Instagram.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 07 Jul 22 - 03:45 PM

Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance

A major entertainment documentary that tells, for the first time, the extraordinary story of how Irish dance developed over centuries, from a traditional dance of the Irish people, to become the global phenomenon it is today, attracting millions of viewers and dancers throughout the world. The documentary features stunning original performances by some of the greatest practitioners of Irish dance of the present day and a wealth of archive materials including films, photographs and witness accounts revealing the history of Irish dance and its evolution. There is a strong American current running throughout the story as we show how the Irish diaspora played a pivotal part in shaping the form, particularly during the last century. Gene Kelly was among those in the Irish diaspora whose style, though strongly American, also drew heavily on his Irish roots.

In the worst and best of times, the Irish danced. And as it grew and changed, the Irish dance form was shaped by political and social forces, and by interactions with cultures from across Europe, Africa and America. Irish dance carries with it echoes of many other cultures with which the people of Ireland have interacted. Steps of Freedom features some of the form’s finest dancers, including Jean Butler, Donnie Golden, Edwina Guckian, Jonathan Kelleher, Stephanie Keane, Morgan Bullock, Siobhan Manson, Garreth Coleman, Noel Spillane, Ty Knowlin, William Jackson and Cuthbert Artura. Key musicians who appear in the film include Cormac Begley, Rhiannan Giddens, Liam O Maonlaí, Ronán Ó Sonadaigh, Steve Cooney and Colm Mac Con Iomaire.

Duration 59 mins First shown 13 Mar 2022 Available for over a year on BBC iplayer

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Jul 22 - 02:42 PM

BBC Radio 4 22/07/2922 7.15pm-8.00pm Add To Playlist Then on BBC Sound.

Saxophonist Camilla George and guitarist Sean Shibe take us on a global journey and beyond as they help choose the next five tracks for the playlist. Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye also explore the finer details with guests John Dillon, Cathy Jordan and David Owen Norris. Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome Weatherald.

The five tracks in this week's playlist:
Beauty in the River by The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
The Green Gowned Lass by Dervish
Taximen by Amadou Balaké
Scarborough Fair by Incantation
Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst

Other music in this episode:
Spacer by Sheila
Abasi Isang by Camilla George
Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush
Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel
Scarborough Fair by Martin Carthy

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 Jul 22 - 02:39 PM

BBC Folk at Home The Essay
From her garage studio, Verity Sharp calls up musicians who are rooted in traditional music and asks them to sing something that's been resonating for them during lockdown.

At Home with Greg Russell Episode 1 of 20
Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and solo performances recorded at home by UK folk musicians. For this episode, it’s the turn of Sheffield-based musician Greg Russell. RADIO 3
Broadcast Mon 11 May 2020

At Home with Rachel Unthank Episode 2 of 20
Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and solo performances recorded at home by UK musicians. For this episode, it’s the turn of Northumberland-based singer Rachel Unthank.
Broadcast Tue 12 May 2020 Repeated on Friday 29 July 22:30 BBC RADIO 3

Episodes 1-20 now available on BBC Sounds.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 25 Jul 22 - 02:39 PM

BBC Radio 4 19.15 25/07/22 Front Row and then BBC Sounds

Singer and fiddle player Bella Hardy talks about her new album – her tenth – Love Songs, which sees this adventurous musician return to where she began, with the traditional songs she’s known all her life.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 31 Jul 22 - 09:05 AM

BBC Radio 4 Black Roots Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens explores the history of African American roots music through the stories of forgotten black pioneers.

Sunday 31/07/22 2022 13.30-14.00 1/3 Frank Johnson, Joe Thompson and the fiddle in North Carolina.

In this episode, acclaimed musician Rhiannon Giddens returns to her home state of North Carolina to explore the lives of two black fiddlers - Joe Thompson and Frank Johnson. Johnson was one of the first black celebrities in the Southern states of the USA. Born into slavery, he bought freedom for himself and his family on the back of his profits as a musician. More than 2,000 people processed through Wilmington, North Carolina for his funeral in 1871. Though he died before the start of the recording industry, his music was passed down through generations of black fiddlers in the region. The last of these fiddlers was Joe Thompson, who taught Rhiannon countless songs.

Sunday 7 August 2022 13.30-14.00 2/3 Arnold Shultz, the banjo and bluegrass music in Kentucky.

Sunday 14 August 2022 13.30-14.00 3/3 DeFord Bailey, the harmonica and country music in Nashville

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 01:07 AM

BBC Radio 4 Farming Today 05.45 4 August 2004

And we hear a new folk song that's been written to pay tribute to migrant seasonal workers. It was commissioned by researchers from the University of Leeds and Oxford who are running a project called 'Feeding the Nation' to track the experiences of workers throughout the 2020 and 2021 harvests.

Interview with singer Danny Pedler and Dr Bethany Robertson.

Pedler // Russell As we enter the summer months, the British public will enjoy punnets of fruit, picked on British farms, the name of the farm proudly displayed. The hands that plucked each individual fruit are not named.

Created in collaboration with researchers Dr Roxana Barbulescu, Prof Carlos Vargas Silva and Dr. Bethany Robertson in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds and COMPAS University of Oxford. This new track aims to raise awareness on the lived experiences of seasonal workers in the UK.

Feed The Nation

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 01:40 AM

BBC iPlayer Sounds Doolin Series 1: Episode 2 Duration 49 mins First shown 9pm 12 Jan 2019 Available until Sun 11:45pm

Doolin

A selection of some of the best Irish traditional music from the 2018 Doolin Folk Festival, presented by Ceitlin Smith. Among the performers are Muireann NicAmhlaoibh, Paul Brady and Lunasa.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 04:17 AM

A new folk song created with the help of two doctors and a professor ???

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 05:01 AM

henryp 'BBC iPlayer'

Could you start a new thread for TV possibly please?

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 06:33 AM

Apologies, Freddy. I thought it was on BBC Sounds!

But TV programmes remain uncommon. I don't think there would be many on their own thread!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 06:54 AM

A little more on Feeding the Nation! Dr. Roxana Barbulescu of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS), School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds (PI) and Professor Carlos Vargas-Silva of the Centre on Migration Policy and Society at the University of Oxford (Co-I) are leading the study. Their project examines the recruitment and experiences of seasonal agricultural migrant workers throughout harvest seasons 2020 and 2021, using 212 remote qualitative interviews and data analysis.

Pedler // Russell bring you new folk music inspired from oral history interviews, written to the sounds of industry. Danny Pedler and Greg Russell released their album Field and Dyke in 2019. Feed the Nation was launched at Sidmouth Folk Festival on Saturday 30 July.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 06 Aug 22 - 07:44 AM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ys7p
BBC Radio Scotland 7pm - Take the Floor. 2 hours of spine tingling Scottish Dance music session!!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 07 Aug 22 - 11:45 AM

A reminder that BBC Radio Oxford will be broadcasting from the Cropredy Festival from 6pm on August 13, when Fairport will be performing the Full House album with Richard Thompson and Dave Mattacks, and Chris Lesley playing Swarb's parts!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Aug 22 - 08:13 AM

BBC Radio 3 Music Planet Sundays 16:00

20 August 2022 World Mix Lopa Kothari presents two specially curated mixtapes, including music from Ecuador, Benin and Algeria. Six programmes available on BBC Sounds.

Music Planet Road Trip 87 episodes available on BBC Sounds.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 15 Aug 22 - 06:44 PM

> Cropredy

The live feed went dead during the second song by a support band (possibly the satire burnt through a cable). On-site recording, presumedly for BBC Sounds, was said to be continuing, and would be aired at a future date "TBA". *Sigh*.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Aug 22 - 05:39 AM

Cropredy?

4 Hour show seems to be available here (in the UK at least):

Cropredy 13 Aug 2022

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 16 Aug 22 - 07:36 AM

BBC Sounds Live at Fairport's Cropredy Convention (13/08/2022)
Released On: 13 Aug 2022 4 hours Available for 27 days
BBC Radio Oxford exclusive live coverage from Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2022
featuring live performances, backstage interviews and more! With Will Banks, Al Ryan and Lisa Simmons.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 24 Aug 22 - 07:07 PM

Travelling Folk at the Edinburgh Festivals was pretty good this week.(18 Aug 2022)

Anna Massie presents a very special edition of Travelling Folk from the Edinburgh Festivals, recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's spiegeltent at St James Quarter.

Siobhan Miller headlines with music from her upcoming album, Bloom.
Megan Henderson plays music from her stunning debut solo album Pilgrim Souls.
Young Trad finalist, piper and pipe-maker Malin Lewis takes to the stage with their trio.
Plus, all the way from Northern New Mexico, singer-songwriter Cahalen Morrison shares songs from his brand new album, Wealth of Sorrow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001b3jw

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 25 Aug 22 - 11:31 AM

The Forum
Bluegrass: Virtuoso music of Appalachia

It is rare in music history that scholars can point to the beginning of a particular style, but bluegrass would appear to be the exception to the rule. Mandolin player Bill Monroe from rural Kentucky had so much clout in the music business that some scholars have suggested that it was he who defined the sound which came to be known as bluegrass. He was certainly protective; Monroe is quoted as saying “the biggest job of bluegrass is to keep out what don’t belong in it.”
Played initially in America's rural south, bluegrass was later adopted by the counter-cultural college kid scene in the 1950s and '60s. And today the music is flourishing all over the world in the most unlikely places.
Rajan Datar is joined by
Dan Boner, director of the Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies programme at East Tennessee State University, who demonstrates how bluegrass works;
writer and historian Tony Russell, whose publications on music include Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records;
and Dr Lydia Hamessley, professor of music at Hamilton College whose research concentrates on old-time and bluegrass music. She is the author of Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton.
Producer: Fiona Clampin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct38ss

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Rain Dog
Date: 29 Aug 22 - 11:42 AM

On BBC Radio 4 - Tuesday 30th August at 11.30 and then available to listen to again.

A Little Flat: The Music Our Ears Overlook


Musician, DJ and producer Nabihah Iqbal celebrates the variety of music systems across the globe.

Drawing on musical traditions from around the world, she takes a closer look at the notes and scales used to make music. She examines how and why our ears hear some music as ‘in tune’ and other music as ‘out of tune.’

With the help of a range of musicians and music experts, Nabihah asks if we are missing out on certain musical experiences and looks at what the future holds for music across the world.

Professor Roger T Dean at the MARCS Institute, explains that the notes we use to make music are much more flexible than the keys seen on the piano might suggest and how our ears are conditioned to like certain sounds.

Nabihah hears from music scholar Dr Joe Peters and examines the issue of a shrinking music biodiversity. Nabihah explores what this means for music on a local and global scale with the help of vocalist and educator Anuja and musician and electric sitarist BISHI who demonstrates the freedom possible from playing music across different traditions.

Multi-instrumentalist and researcher, Dr Khyam Allami, discusses how technology impacts what type of music we make and are exposed to and suggests solutions for a rich musical future.

Producer: Nooriyah Qais
A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Rain Dog
Date: 29 Aug 22 - 02:39 PM

Being broadcast at the moment.


BBC Radio 4 - Front Row - Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of our country's greatest ever composers.

Born 150 years ago in 1872, he is known for creating a sense of Englishness in twentieth century music by drawing on his love of folk song, Tudor church music and landscape, in pieces like the perennially popular The Lark Ascending and Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

Samira Ahmed explores his musical language and revels in live performance with her guests, the solo violinist Jennifer Pike , baritone Roderick Williams, Paul Sartin of the folk band Bellowhead, Kate Kennedy from Oxford University, and composer, writer and pianist Neil Brand.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 03 Sep 22 - 08:51 AM

Saturday 3 September 2022 16.30 BBC Radio 3 World Mix Music Planet

Kathryn Tickell presents two specially curated mixtapes including microtonal choral music from the South Pacific, a classic from Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, Youssou N'Dour's collaboration with the Egyptian Fathy Salama Orchestra and a track from British-Kenyan band Owiny Sigoma.

Saturday 10 September 2022 16.00 BBC Radio 3 Brazil 200 Special Music Planet

As Brazil marks 200 years of independence from Portugal, Lopa Kothari delves into the archives and chooses some of her favourite recordings of Brazilian music, from all parts of this vast nation. From the giants of Tropicalia, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, to moments from some specially recorded BBC sessions in Sao Paulo and Glasgow, as well as legendary singer Elza Soares and more recent luminaries of the Brazilian musical scene Lucas Santtana and Tulipa Ruiz.

Saturday 17 September 2022 16.00 BBC Radio 3 Madalitso Music Planet

Lopa Kothari with new releases from Yanna Momina, Rodrigo y Gabriela and Star Feminine Band, plus a specially recorded studio session from Malawian duo Madalitso.

See BBC Sounds Music Planet for earlier programmes.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 11:40 AM

Travelling Folk

BBC Sounds 01 Sep 2022 Available for 27 days
Anna Massie kicks off our Live Music Month during September on Travelling Folk. We begin with a range of tracks from the best 'live' albums around, including Runrig, LAU and Cherish the Ladies. Our live concert features a set by Edwina Hayes recorded at the 2022 Orkney Folk Festival.

Thursday 8 September 20:00 BBC RADIO SCOTLAND
Anna Massie with the Opening Concert of the 2022 Orkney Folk Festival. Featuring live performances from Jennifer Austin and Eric Linklater, Karine and Steven Polwart, Talisk and Skerryvore. Recorded in Stromness Town Hall in May 2022.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 06:12 PM

Island Records
The Reunion - BBC radio4 - 4 Sept 2022

Chris Blackwell first started Island Records in Jamaica in 1959 and launched some of the biggest and most influential artists across the musical spectrum. U2, Cat Stevens, Roxy Music, Fairport Convention and Free were all signed to Island, but it was the label's unique connection to Jamaica that helped popularise ska and reggae music throughout the world, as well as Jamaican born artists like Grace Jones, and British bands with links to the Caribbean such as Steel Pulse and Aswad.
Bob Marley, Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, Burning Spear, and Sly and Robbie, all took refuge on Island - a record label that catered proudly for those who wanted to explore their creativity in an independent way.

Joining Kirsty Wark are Island Records founder, Chris Blackwell; Grammy winning Jimmy Cliff, the singer who became a star after the landmark film The Harder They Come; Mykaell Riley who was a founder member of British reggae act Steel Pulse; pioneer Jamaican ska musician Owen Gray; and Marcia Griffiths, a member of the I Threes who supported Bob Marley and the Wailers for many years, and whose hit Young, Gifted and Black, with Bob Andy, became an anthem for young Jamaicans.
Producer: Charlotte North
Series Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001brhq

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,Anne Lister sans cookie
Date: 06 Sep 22 - 03:49 PM

On Sounds, Radio 4 Extra, there's Jarvis Cocker talking about "Singing Together". Lovely programme, full of warmth, and one or two familiar voices (Doc Rowe, Nancy Kerr, Eliza Carthy ...) adding their thoughts.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 06 Sep 22 - 07:47 PM

^ thanks Anne

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Singing Together
Archive on 4

Singing Together was the long-running BBC Schools radio programme which got generations of children singing.

Jarvis Cocker sets out on a musical journey to trace its history.

He uncovers the stories of those who made the programme, listened as children, and used it in their classrooms. Together they remember Monday mornings at 11am, when pupils up and down the country opened their song books and gathered round as teachers wheeled out their classroom radios.

He delves into the archive to uncover the origins of the programme, hearing the first presenter, Herbert Wiseman, describe how he started the series at the outbreak of the Second World War as a way of reaching out to children at a time when many had been evacuated. Wartime teacher Brenda Jenkins, who used Singing Together with her class of evacuees, remembers how 'singing always helped'

Jarvis explores the power of singing to bringing people together. He also uncovers the origins of the folk songs used in the programme and traces how it changed though the 1960s and 70's, opening up to musical traditions from around the world.

He reflects on the impact of the long running series – which gave many their first introduction to folk heritage- with award winning musician Eliza Carthy.

And he asks why recordings of this hugely popular series were not preserved for posterity. Only a handful of episodes survive in the BBC archive but, with the help of a small community of collectors, he sets out to find some of the missing episodes.

Producer: Ruth Evans
Editor: David Ross

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04stc6c

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+ accompanying page
Singing Together: The radio show that got schoolchildren singing
28 November 2014
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30210485

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 07 Sep 22 - 07:02 AM

BBC Radio 2 9:00pm Wednesday Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe

7 September 2022 Touring by tall ship with the Sea Song Sessions

Members of the Sea Song Sessions talk about their new album, and touring by tall ship. Ben Nicholls and Emily Portman chat to Mark about the project, which also involves Seth Lakeman, Jack Rutter and Bellowhead's Jon Boden. The group will be playing harbourside venues when they tour the south coast onboard a sailing ship in late September.

You can hear songs from the Sea Song Sessions and more LIVE at three, one-off harbourside and onboard performances.
LOOE HARBOUR Tuesday 27 September 2022 Doors 6pm. Tallship ‘Anny’ will come alongside and act as stage, audience will view the performance from the East Quay on Looe Harbour. £25.00
CHARLESTOWN HARBOUR Wednesday 28th September Doors 6pm. Below decks on Sailing Barge ‘Lady Daphne’ alongside in Charlestown. Only 40 capacity! £45.00
FALMOUTH: NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL Friday 30 September 2022 Doors 7pm. Performance in the boat hall of the maritime museum. Please note this will be a standing event. £25.00

14 September 2022 Jackie Oates sings live

This week, singer and musician Jackie Oates plays songs from her new album, 'Gracious Wings'. Jackie is one of the most cherished folk voices of her generation, combining sensitive singing with superb fiddle and viola playing to affect audiences since the mid-2000s. Her touring trio includes Mike Cosgrave (piano, accordion, guitar) and John Parker (double bass). Gracious Wings features friends and guests Megan Henwood, Jon Wilks and Simon Emmerson of the Imagined Village.

21 September 2022 The Unthanks cast our sorrows away

This week, members of Northumbrian family band The Unthanks talk about their new album, 'Sorrows Away'. Acclaimed and admired since 2003, The Unthanks continue to evolve their sound while always making something beautiful or affecting.

28 September 2022 Jake Blount: imagining a future using songs from the past

American musician Jake Blount talks about his new release, 'The New Faith'. Jake's Afrofuturist album imagines a world in which Black Americans, driven north by the effects of climate change, live as refugees. They sing their story through timeless folk songs and spirituals, mixing roots music and rap.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 12 Sep 22 - 11:00 PM

Bryony Griffith; Thanks to @elizabethalker at @BBCRadio3 for playing mine and @AliceJonesMusic track 'Wanton Lasses Pity Her' this morning. A bit of trad folk sandwiched between Weber & Chopin!

The Northern Drift shows will be aired [on BBC Radio 3] on 12th and 19th Sept ????

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 12 Sep 22 - 11:06 PM

BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week The Captain’s Apprentice from 9.45am Monday 26 September

Following in the footsteps of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Caroline Davison explores the influence of folk song and the Fens on the composer, in the 150th anniversary of his birth. Ralph Vaughan Williams was a keen collector of folk songs, and committed to saving these indigenous tunes before they could be forgotten. In 1905 he was in King's Lynn where James 'Duggie' Carter sang 'The Captain's Apprentice'. The tune was beautiful and the melody, harmony and feeling went on to shape Vaughan Williams' future composition. Yet, in stark contrast, the lyrics of this song told a tale of brutal torture at sea.

Alongside the story of Ralph Vaughan Williams' passion for folk song and the Fens, Caroline Davison delves into the plight of cabin boys on the high seas who were at the mercy of unscrupulous sea captains. Folk songs are not the only the theme examined in this account, we also discover how the landscape of the Fens inspired Vaughan Williams work, and there are glimpses into the composer's personal life, and the times in which he lived.

Monday 26 September 9.45 repeated 00.30 1 of 5 Norfolk Rhapsody
Caroline Davison explores the influence of folk song and the Fens on the composer.
Tuesday 27 September 9.45 repeated 00.30 2 of 5 Folk Song and Composition
Inspired by song collecting in King's Lynn, Vaughan Williams composes Norfolk Rhapsodies.
Wednesday 28 September 9.45 repeated 00.30 3 of 5 Vaughan Williams and Fen Country
Ralph Vaughan Williams's emotional connection to the Fens found expression in his music where memories of youth, love and happiness make their mark.
Thursday 29 September 9.45 repeated 00.30 4 of 5 Vaughan Williams Has an Epiphany
In 1903 the composer meets Mr Potiphar and has a musical epiphany.
Friday 30 September 9.45 repeated 00.30 5 of 5 The Captain’s Apprentice Is Revisited
The composer revisits The Captain's Apprentice after disaster strikes the Norfolk coast.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Rain Dog
Date: 14 Sep 22 - 05:22 AM

BBC Radio 4 repeated the Woman's Hour programme from May this year - Woman and Folk.

It was repeated on Saturday. The link on my previous post on May 2nd will take you to the page.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 14 Sep 22 - 06:33 AM

BBC Radio Scotland Thursday 15 September 8pm Travelling Folk
Anna Massie with a concert recorded at the 2022 Orkney Folk Festival featuring Graham Rorie and the Orcadians of Hudson Bay Live from the Orkney Folk Festival. 1 hour 55 minutes.

Edwina Hayes live from the Orkney Folk Festival Travelling Folk Anna Massie kicks off our Live Music Month during September on Travelling Folk. We begin with a range of tracks from the best 'live' albums around, including Runrig, LAU and Cherish the Ladies. Our live concert features a set by Edwina Hayes recorded at the 2022 Orkney Folk Festival. 17 days left to listen. 1 hour, 55 minutes.

Scotland's First Roma Festival & Fara on Energy Islands Travelling Folk
Anna Massie hear about Scotland's first ever Roma Culture Festival. Plus Catriona Price & Kristan Harvey join Anna live to share Fara's brand new album Energy Islands. 10 days left to listen. 1 hour, 55 minutes.

Travelling Folk at the Edinburgh Festivals
Anna Massie in the BBC's spiegeltent at St James Quarter for an evening of live music with Siobhan Miller, Megan Henderson, Malin Lewis & Cahalen Morrison. 1 hour, 55 minutes. 3 days left to listen.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Sep 22 - 01:55 PM

Last night on BBC Radio 2, according to BBC Sounds.

19:00 Jo Whiley Jo handpicks her favourite new music from all genres of the musical spectrum.

21:00 Her Majesty's Horses In a special programme, Radio 2 looks back at the Queen's love of horses.

22:00 Trevor Nelson's Rhythm Nation Soul, R&B, funk, disco and everything in between.

Soul, R&B, funk, disco and everything in between. New music from all genres of the musical spectrum. Except the world of folk music.

Not on BBC Radio this week; The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe; Jackie Oates sings live.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Sep 22 - 02:36 PM

Jackie Oates 12 September at 22:17 ·
Evening everyone! I am looking forward to a week of rehearsing material from my new album 'Gracious Wings' with my wonderful trio (John Parker and Mike Cosgrave) in readiness for our upcoming Autumn Tour.
Unfortunately we've had to make a few changes and alterations: We will now be performing a live set for the Folk Show, Radio 2 on Wednesday 16th November.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 26 Sep 22 - 07:16 AM

^^^^^
some links for

Book Of The Week September 2022 - BBC radio 4
The Captain's Apprentice by Caroline Davison

Following in the footsteps of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Caroline Davison explores the influence of folk song and the Fens on the composer, in the 150th anniversary of his birth.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bksj/episodes/guide

& more about the book (article by Rowan Mantell)
https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/kings-lynn-folk-songs-inspire-vaughan-williams-9231202

independent bookshops link
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-captain-s-apprentice-ralph-vaughan-williams-and-the-story-of-a-folk-song/9781784744540

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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Rain Dog
Date: 11 Oct 22 - 04:03 AM

On BBC Radio 4 Extra earlier this morning and repeated this coming Sunday at 15.30

Sounds from the Seabed

Lucie Skeaping traces the story of the salvage and replication of musical instruments which went down with Henry VIII’s Mary Rose in 1545. She also finds out what they tell us about Tudor music and musicians, both at sea and on land.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Oct 22 - 06:45 PM

BBC Radio 4 Miss Nobody by Ethel Carnie
1/2 Sunday 23 October 2022 15.00
2/2 Sunday 30 October 2022 15.00

Using a mash-up of the novels This Slavery and Miss Nobody. Ethel Carnie was the first English working class novelist. She was a mill worker from the age of 11 to 20 years old.

A musical adaptation, following the lives of two working women in 1911 Lancashire. Author and activist, Ethel Carnie narrates, she wants to teach the women to strive for more in their working lives.

Ethel Carnie - Jenny Platt

Singers: Janet Swan, Rosie Swan, Jules Gibb, Katherine Watson, Grainne Gordon, Victoria Knott, Mark Mukerji and Huw Johnson and all members of the cast.
Accordion - Hannah James
Music composed, arranged and played by Rowan Rheingans

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 13 Oct 22 - 11:39 AM

The Essay - BBC Radio 3 - 12 October 2022
Vaughan Williams: Belonging

Essay 3: Adrian McNally
- producer/arranger/pianist for The Unthanks

Self-taught and raised in a South Yorkshire pit village, Adrian McNally is pianist, composer and band leader for The Unthanks. From humble beginnings to scoring for his band to perform with Charles Hazelwood's Army of Generals, Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band and the BBC Concert Orchestra for The Proms, McNally has sought confidence and inspiration along the way from Ralph Vaughan Williams.
He finds kinship in a quest to prove that the people's music is anything but common, to draw out and elevate the beauty and truth present in those folk songs fondly but unfairly known as low culture.
In his essay, McNally looks at VW's thoughts on National Music and the inescapable relationship between place, community and creativity. 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cnvs
Scroll episodes forward & back for more VW essays but this one seems most related to folk.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 17 Oct 22 - 06:04 PM

Music Matters - Radio 3 - 15 Oct 2022
Kate Molleson focusses on Northern Ireland.
@ 23:50
The Lambeg Drum is one of the loudest acoustic instruments and Kate gets to hear one in Co. Antrim, in the company of Willie Hill and Dr Diana Culbertson. They talk about the role the drum plays in the Ulster-Scots community.
@ 29:30
Back in Belfast fiddle player Kevin McCullagh talks about his journey into experimental improvisation and subverting audiences' expectations of traditional music.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cyln

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 17 Oct 22 - 06:38 PM

Oota Da Cans , mentioned by Diolch back in February is back on.   It seems to be roughly monthly from October to March :

Steve Davidson and Gary Peterson with their choice of folk music from around the globe.
(no play list)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0094459/episodes/guide

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 02:32 PM

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

19 October 2022 Eliza Carthy's musical life so far
Vital folk voice Eliza Carthy reflects on her life in music so far.

26 October 2022 Ashley Hutchings and son Blair Dunlop
Folk rock 'Guv'nor' Ashley Hutchings and son Blair Dunlop discuss art and inspiration.

02 November 2022 Sean Cooney sits in
Teesside songwriter Sean Cooney, of The Young'Uns, shares his favourite songs about real people.

09 November 2022 Chris Difford sits in
Chris Difford of Squeeze shares songs by his favourite folk and acoustic songwriters

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Oct 22 - 03:54 PM

Before the Folk Show starts on BBC Radio 2, currently enjoying trad Gaelic singing from the Mods on Scotland's BBC Alba.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 19 Oct 22 - 07:57 PM

Thanks WalkaboutsVerse ^

Mòd 2022 Oct 2022
also on BBC RADIO NAN GÀIDHEAL -
Several programmes this week.
Live & available for a month.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d620/episodes/guide

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 08:07 PM

Free Thinking   Radio 3
Oliver Postgate

The creator of much-loved children's TV classics including The Clangers, Bagpuss and Pogles' Wood is discussed by Matthew Sweet and his guests Daniel Postgate, who took over Smallfilms from his father, singer Sandra Kerr, who was the voice of Madeleine in Bagpuss, composer and author Neil Brand, and writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed.
Oliver Postgate's father was a communist and his mother was a political activist, daughter of prominent Labour figure George Lansbury - how much of this political background can we find in the fantastical worlds that he created?
There's also discussion of the music that plays such a major role in the programmes - the deep folk roots of the songs performed by Sandra and John Faulkner in Bagpuss and Vernon Elliot's sparse and poignant compositions for The Clangers, Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine.    

There's also some discussion of The Critics Group.

;) includes some discussion actually carried out in Clanger ;)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cyny

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 07:46 AM

;) includes some discussion actually carried out in Clanger ;)

CLANGERS: The Complete Scripts 1969-1974 is published on November 10th.

Now there's something to think about!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 03:23 PM

Shetland Folk Festival 2022

Oct 5th & 6th
Caroline Moyes presents this year’s fortieth Folk Festival Special.


only available for a few days now :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p3lmm/episodes/guide

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 04:52 PM

BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Available now 4 Next on 3

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tlyrt/episodes/player Travelling Folk

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 25 Oct 22 - 01:54 PM

Tuesday 25 October 2022 19.15 BBC Radio 4 Then available on BBC Sounds (for over a year?)
Front Row Eliza Carthy, Ruben Östlund, Brutalist Architecture

Eliza Carthy is celebrating 30 years as a professional musician with a new album, Queen of the Whirl. She talks about this, the legacy of her musical family – as the daughter of Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy – the way traditional music develops, and her own song-writing, and performs live in the Front Row studio.

Wednesday 19 October 2022 9pm BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show BBC Sounds 24 days left to listen
Vital folk voice Eliza Carthy reflects on her life in music so far.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 25 Oct 22 - 05:19 PM

BBC Radio 4 Miss Nobody by Ethel Carnie
1/2 Sunday 23 October 2022 15.00 Available for 27 days on BBC Sounds
2/2 Sunday 30 October 2022 15.00

Musical dramatisation of the novels This Slavery and Miss Nobody.
Ethel Carnie was a mill worker from the age of 11 to 20 years old.
She became the first English working class novelist.

Music composed, arranged and played by Rowan Rheingans. Accordion: Hannah James.
Singers: Janet Swan, Rosie Swan, Jules Gibb, Katherine Watson, Grainne Gordon,
Victoria Knott, Mark Mukerji and Huw Johnson and all members of the cast.

I enjoyed the first episode - and wrote a song about Ethel Carnie;
You may call me a mill girl or Miss Nobody
But no-one can keep me in this slavery!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 27 Oct 22 - 01:03 AM

BBC Sounds; British Music from the Shetland Folk Festival World Routes; Shetland Folk Festival 2013

As part of Radio 3's celebration of British music, Mary Ann Kennedy visits the Shetland Folk Festival,
an annual gathering of musicians from all around the British Isles and beyond,
performing in venues spread across the UK's most northerly islands.

With concert highlights from The Long Notes, whose members come from England, Scotland and Ireland;
a session with Ireland's Rambling Boys of Pleasure; a set from English bluegrass banjo virtuoso Leon Hunt;
and fast and furious dance tunes from Scotland's Skerryvore.

Episode 2; Mary Ann Kennedy continues Radio 3's celebration of British music with more from the Shetland Folk Festival,
focusing on the Islands' own strong musical heritage,
which shows influences from nearby Scandinavia as well as mainland Scotland.

Local fiddle player Kevin Henderson plays tunes in Shetland style,
Claire White sings in Shetland dialect, and there are highlights of the Isles' Gathering,
a get-together of leading musicians from both Orkney and Shetland.

Part of BBC World on 3 World Music Archive;
This collection features highlights from our trips across the globe,
from traditional music that is almost never heard to stars of the future on the other side of the planet.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,Anne Lister sans cookie
Date: 29 Oct 22 - 03:30 PM

On Radio 4 Extra - an interview with Phil Cunningham about his brother Johnny. Recorded in 2008, and part of a series called "Musical Genes".

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 30 Oct 22 - 07:28 AM

^ Link for the "Musical Genes" programmes currently available
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h33xz/episodes/player

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Musical Genes
Series looking at the stories behind some of our best-loved musicians.
folky [not necessarily available]

Johnny Cash 2008
daughter: Rosanne Cash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dsl3m

Woody Guthrie       2009
son: Arlo Guthrie
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hlddk

Phil Cunningham   2008
brother: John
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dyknm

Martyn Bennett   2009
mother: Margatet
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h9cx9

see the series for more non folky:
Judy Garland, Matt Monro, Maurice Gibb, Dean Martin,,,,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h33xz/episodes/guide

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 11:48 AM

stick to trad folk; don't start writing your own murder ballads
   :(
Law in Action BBC radio 4 - Nov 2022
Can rap lyrics amount to confessions to murder?
Song lyrics are usually understood to be fiction - Tom Jones's 'Delilah' isn't an admission that the Welsh singer actually stabbed an unfaithful girlfriend, and Bob Marley never "shot the sheriff".

But in California rap lyrics have been presented as evidence in criminal prosecutions in such a way that the state has now legislated to restrict the use of those lyrics in trials. And a murder conviction has been overturned, and a retrial ordered, for a rapper convicted on the grounds of his lyrics.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dx61
> skip to ~14:00

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 02:17 PM

Front Row BBC Radio 4 19.15 Tuesday 8 November 2022 then BBC Sounds

Jennifer Lawrence, mandolin player Chris Thile, Chokepoint Capitalism

Grammy award-winning mandolin player Chris Thile plays live in the studio from his latest album Laysongs, on the eve of his UK tour.

Wed, NOV 9 St George's Bristol
Thu, NOV 10 Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, United Kingdom
Fri, NOV 11 Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United Kingdom
Sat, NOV 12 RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music), Manchester
Sun, NOV 13 The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Tue, NOV 15 National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Nov 22 - 06:12 AM

7 February 2022 21st Century Folk: Radio 2 is always looking for ways to tell stories, and 21st Century Folk is a creatively ambitious and hugely exciting new endeavour. Following in the tradition of the Radio Ballads, I’m proud that in the BBC’s centenary year we will be telling the real life stories of our listeners in the North East of England, using original music to create a lasting legacy of their experiences. Helen Thomas, Head of Radio 2

BBC Radio 2, in partnership with BBC Local Radio, launches 21st Century Folk, an ambitious initiative to capture the essence of life in the North East of England in 2022 - the BBC’s centenary year – through the prism of folk songs, and offering people from the region the opportunity to have a song written about their life. Mark Radcliffe unveiled the project to listeners on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Radio 2 and on BBC Radio Newcastle and BBC Radio Tees, asking people from the North East to share stories about their daily lives. Five of these stories will be given to songwriters, who will write original songs based on the listeners’ experiences. The songs will then be performed by a range of artists, including musicians with links to the region.

BBC Radio 2 Folk Show with/without* Mark Radcliffe

Broadcast 02 Nov 2022* Available on BBC Sounds for 23 days Teesside songwriter Sean Cooney, of The Young'uns, shares his favourite songs about real people. Sean is one of the songwriters involved in Radio 2's 21st Century Folk, which is creating a musical time capsule of life in the North East of England. Five singers are meeting five Radio 2 listeners and writing songs about their lives. Inspired by 21st Century Folk, Sean devotes this week's Folk Show to songs about real people and true stories.

21:00 09 November 2022* Then on demand for 30 days on BBC Sounds Chris Difford of Squeeze shares songs by his favourite folk and acoustic songwriters. In January 2023, Chris will take part in Radio 2's 21st Century Folk, writing a brand new song about a real Radio 2 listener from the North East of England. The project will create a musical time capsule of northern life in 2023, in which five real people will have their life experiences immortalised in song.

21:00 16 November 2022 Strange gap in BBC Radio 2 schedule!

21:00 23 November 2022 Then on demand for 30 days on BBC Sounds This week, Jackie Oates and her trio perform songs from her new album, 'Gracious Wings'.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Nov 22 - 11:04 AM

BBC RADIO SCOTLAND BBC RADIO ORKNEY Saltfish Sessions
Music and banter from Orkney's weel kent folk duo Brian Cromarty and Douglas Montgomery. 1 hour.

Last on Wednesday 26 October 2022; 16 days left to listen on BBC Sounds

Next episode 18:00 Wednesday 23 November 2022

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 02:43 PM

The Documentary -   BBC World Service - Nov 2022
Arnold Shultz and bluegrass in Kentucky   
Bill Monroe always acknowledged the black fiddler and guitarist Arnold Shultz as one of his major influences. Rhiannon [Giddens] explores how African-American musicians like Shultz were often mentors to white country stars of the time.
Featuring Joshua Bronnenberg, Dr. Richard S. Brown, Dr. Erika Brady, Dom Flemons, Dr. Andrew Rhinehart and Tray Wellington.   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct43cs

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 03:13 PM

Also available, BBC Radio 4 Black Roots; Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens explores the history of African American roots music through the stories of forgotten black pioneers.

Episode One – Frank Johnson, Joe Thompson and the fiddle in North Carolina.
Episode Two – Arnold Shultz, the banjo and bluegrass music in Kentucky.
Episode Three - DeFord Bailey, the harmonica and country music in Nashville.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Stanron
Date: 12 Nov 22 - 03:15 PM

Not radio but TV. BBC 2 at 9 pm tonight Martin and Eliza Carthy among other guests on Later with Jools Holland.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 12:17 PM

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Billy Bragg's Changing Times - 2019
From Hamish Henderson to Tom Robinson, the Sex Pistols to U2, and more recently Radiohead and Stormzy, protest music has come a long way.

1. So Much To Protest About -16 Nov 2022
2. A Beautiful Day -23 Nov 2022
3. Grime of the Times -30 Nov 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l9mw/episodes/guide

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 23 Nov 22 - 10:29 AM

BBC Radio 2 Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Wednesday 21:00

23 November 2022 Jackie Oates and her trio perform songs from her new album, 'Gracious Wings'.

30 November 2022 It's St. Andrew's Day, so Mark chats to Scottish legend Aly Bain and US guitarist Jerry Douglas about 20 years of the Transatlantic Sessions. Plus Mànran's Gary Innes.

7 December 2022 Acclaimed trio Lady Maisery perform music from their latest album 'Tender'. Hazel Askew, Rowan Rheingans and Hannah James.

14 December 2022 Mark Radcliffe presents an hour of seasonal songs inspired by Christmas, midwinter customs, and country scenes.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 23 Nov 22 - 10:43 AM

BBC Sounds; Here's a collection of 20 or more recent folk programmes from around the UK, plus one or two older ones.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk?sort=popular BBC Sounds Folk

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 26 Nov 22 - 01:33 PM

BBC Radio 4 18.15 Saturday 26 November 2022 then BBC Sounds

Loose Ends with music from Mary Gauthier and DJ Yoda.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 12:53 AM

BBC Sounds Travelling Folk Bert Jansch at the BBC

Released On: 24 Nov 2022Available for 27 days

Bert Jansch was the very essence of folk music, providing inspiration for everyone from Paul Simon and Neil Young to Led Zeppelin and countless folk revivalists. Bert At the BBC is a comprehensive collection of Jansch’s appearances at the BBC, featuring over eight hours of rare and unreleased recordings, including live-on-air spots, studio sessions and full concerts straight from the BBC vaults, delving further into this legendary performer’s canon.

The set is compiled by Colin Harper, author of Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British folk and blues revival. Colin joins Anna in conversation about the life and music of one of the most important figures in contemporary British folk.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 05:57 AM

Cerdd Dant, Canu Gwerin a'r Gerddorfa
Cerdd Dant, Folk Singing and the Orchestra
BBC RADIO CYMRU 2 - 2021
(10 Nov '22 for a month)
Lisa Gwilym sy’n cyflwyno rhaglen arbennig yn cyfuno dau begwn cerddorol, cerdd dant a chanu gwerin gyda Cherddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig y BBC yn gyfeiliant i’r cwbwl.


Lisa Gwilym presents a special program combining two musical extremes, cerdd dant and folk singing with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales accompanying the whole thing.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011k3k

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 07:16 AM

BBC Sounds Pigion yr Wyl Cerdd Dant Released On: 13 Nov 2022 Available for 16 days
Nia Lloyd Jones yn cyflwyno uchafbwyntiau o Wyl Cerdd Dant Bro Nansi 2022.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001f4mk Pigion yr Wyl Cerdd Dant

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 11:19 AM

BBC i-player Gwyl Cerdd Dant Gwyl-cerdd-dant

Rhaglen fyw, efo cystadlu o ddigwyddiad diwylliannol traddodiadol undydd mwyaf Cymru, o Lanfyllin eleni.
Competitions including cerdd dant, harp, folk singing, folk dancing and recitation.

Pennod 1 of 4 100 mins 3pm 12 Nov 2022 Available for 15 days
Pennod 2 of 4 48 mins 6pm 12 Nov 2022 Available for 15 days
Pennod 3 of 4 65 mins 7:15pm 12 Nov 2022 Available for 15 days
Pennod 4 of 4 138 mins 9:30pm 12 Nov 2022 Available for 15 days

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 28 Nov 22 - 06:27 AM

You can find two lists of the folk programmes available on BBC Sounds and BBC i-player, with many programmes that could easily pass un-noticed otherwise.
Programmes are often available for 30 days after broadcast. However, I doubt that either list will pick up all the programmes with an element of folk music.

BBC Sounds - Categories - Folk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk?sort=popular
BBC Sounds folk programmes
This lists programmes from the national and local BBC radio stations.

Programmes categorised as Music: Folk - Available now - BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/music/folk/player
Programmes - categories - music - folk
BBC folk programmes
This lists TV programmes too, plus a different selection of radio programmes.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Nov 22 - 12:19 PM

Desert Island Discs Sports, guest sports promoter Barry Hearn; first broadcast 20 November, repeated 25 November 2022 available for 19 days.

Barry Hearn showed his liking for folk songs. He has followed Tom Paxton since 1967, and Tom Paxton was a surprise performer at his 70th birthday party. Barry was born in Dagenham in East London in 1948 and grew up in a council house. At school, he enjoyed playing cricket and football, but freely admits he wasn’t good enough to become a professional player. Instead, he became an accountant and when one of the companies he worked for asked him to find some investment properties, he bought a chain of snooker halls.

DISC ONE: The Gambler by Kenny Rogers
DISC TWO: Sweet Home Chicago by The Blues Brothers
DISC THREE: Sunshine On My Shoulders by John Denver
DISC FOUR: The Lonesome Boatman by Finbar & Eddie Furey
DISC FIVE: Snooker Loopy by Chas 'n' Dave
DISC SIX: The Best by Tina Turner
DISC SEVEN: American Pie by Don McLean
DISC EIGHT: Forest Lawn by Tom Paxton

Barry Hearn chose a similar selection for a Tom Cridland podcast in 2020; Hank Williams - "My Best Friend", Paul Simon - "Still Crazy After All These Years", Tom Paxton - "Last Thing On My Mind", Garth Brooks - "The Dance", The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows", Simon & Garfunkel - "America", Bob Dylan - "Blowin' In The Wind", Don McLean - "American Pie", Ray Charles - "Georgia On My Mind", Elvis Presley - "Always On My Mind".

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Rain Dog
Date: 28 Nov 22 - 12:55 PM

Thanks for all the updates.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 18 Dec 22 - 01:40 AM

23 December 2022 23:00 BBC Radio 3 Late Junction

In this special festive edition of Late Junction, we hand over the musical reins to comedian and long-time listener Tom Allen. When not busy with comedy panel shows, hosting The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice or on tour with his award-winning standup, Tom is a keen appreciator of the weird and wonderful in music, and shares some of his sonic favourites with us alongside stories and cheer.

Drawn to things that are melancholic, maudlin or camp, he’s a big fan of renaissance choral music, sea shanties, traditional folk songs, and a new genre he’s coined ‘Medieval Emo’. A Late Junction listener from his early teenage years, he shares some tracks he discovered via the show, as well as other songs close to his heart from the likes of Thomas Tallis, Sufjan Stevens and Kate Bush.

Plus there’s an exclusive mixtape from the legendary jazz collective The Sun Ra Arkestra.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 04:21 AM

Friday 23 December 2022 10.00 BBC Radio 4, then on demand on BBC Sounds

Woman's Hour; The fiddler and folk singer Bryony Griffith and singer, instrumentalist and percussive step dancer, Alice Jones are established solo artists at the heart of the UK folk scene. They have joined forces and earlier this year they released an album of Yorkshire songs and folklore: “A year too late and a month too soon” - which went to No.6 in Mojo folk albums of the year. They join Krupa Padhy live in the studio to discuss the tradition and to perform a Yorkshire Christmas song - Early Pearly.

And wishing all Mudcatters and musicians a warm Christmas and a happy New Year.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 11:20 AM

BBC Radio Scotland "Take the Floor" is broadcast one hour later at 8pm tomorrow - Task Scheduler is set to record the webcast!!

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 Dec 22 - 12:05 PM

Friday 30 December 8.30pm BBC Radio 4 Extra Soul Music Auld Lang Syne
Available now on demand on BBC Sounds

Soul Music hears the stories behind the song, how it went from being a reflective melancholic Scottish air about the parting of the ways, to the jaunty tune we know today.

Monday 2nd January 16.00 BBC Radio 4 Soul Music The Parting Glass
Available now on demand on BBC Sounds

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. Song versions: Karine Polwart, Hozier, Finbar Furey, The High Kings, The MacDonalds.

181 episodes available on BBC Sounds.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 25 Dec 22 - 06:07 PM

Loose Ends Released On: 24 Dec 202 BBC Sounds Available for over a year

Clive Anderson, obviously a fan, finishes with Judy Collins and a specially recorded version of Both Sides Now (after 37 minutes).

Loose Ends New Years Day 23:00 BBC Radio 4

Clive Anderson with the final programme showcasing some of the best music performances on Loose Ends this year, including Joss Stone, The Divine Comedy, Judi Jackson, Vieux Farka Touré, Amythyst Kiah and The Dead South.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 25 Dec 22 - 06:32 PM

Music Planet Broadcast 24 December 2022 21 days left to listen on BBC Sounds

Albums of the year; Kathryn Tickell presents a round-up of some of her favourite releases of the year, plus we hear from Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré.

Music Planet BBC Radio 3 16:00 31 December 2022

At home with the Carthys; The first family of English folk
Kathryn Tickell visits Martin and Eliza Carthy at home in Robin Hood's Bay in Yorkshire. There will be live music-making, some classic tracks from the Waterson-Carthy family heritage, and a look back on the life of Norma Waterson, who died earlier this year.

Music Planet BBC Radio 3 16:00 7 January 2022

Lopa Kothari introduces a session form Karnatic singer Sushma Soma, plus a round-up of the latest new releases from across the world.

Music Planet BBC Radio 3 16:00 14 January 2022

Lopa Kothari is joined by singers Psoy Korolenko and Alice Zadwadzki for a session of Yiddish songs that were all at one time confiscated by the KGB, plus this week's classic artist is Kenyan guitarist George Mukabi and we've a handful of the best new releases from around the globe.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2022
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 25 Dec 22 - 06:32 PM

Music Planet Broadcast 24 December 2022 21 days left to listen on BBC Sounds

Albums of the year; Kathryn Tickell presents a round-up of some of her favourite releases of the year, plus we hear from Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré.

Music Planet BBC Radio 3 16:00 31 December 2022

At home with the Carthys; The first family of English folk
Kathryn Tickell visits Martin and Eliza Carthy at home in Robin Hood's Bay in Yorkshire. There will be live music-making, some classic tracks from the Waterson-Carthy family heritage, and a look back on the life of Norma Waterson, who died earlier this year.

Music Planet BBC Radio 3 16:00 7 January 2022

Lopa Kothari introduces a session form Karnatic singer Sushma Soma, plus a round-up of the latest new releases from across the world.

Music Planet BBC Radio 3 16:00 14 January 2022

Lopa Kothari is joined by singers Psoy Korolenko and Alice Zadwadzki for a session of Yiddish songs that were all at one time confiscated by the KGB, plus this week's classic artist is Kenyan guitarist George Mukabi and we've a handful of the best new releases from around the globe.