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Subject: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 15 Dec 22 - 03:05 PM 21:00 Wednesday 04 January 2023 BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Magpie Arc Anglo-Scottish folk-rock supergroup The Magpie Arc play live. The band features renowned singers and musicians Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson, Findlay Napier, Alex Hunter and Tom A. Wright. Their debut album, 'Glamour in the Grey', was released at the end of 2022. They have gigs in Gateshead and Cambridge in February. 21st Century Folk; Folk singers have always sung the stories of real people in these islands. 21st Century Folk pairs five Radio 2 listeners with talented songwriters and musicians: Thea, Sean, Martyn Joseph, Chris Difford with Kathryn Williams, and Angeline Morrison with The Unthanks. 21:00 Wednesday 11 January 2023 BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Thea Gilmore and Sean Cooney Thea joins Mark in the studio to perform her song from 21st Century Folk. Her latest full-length album, 'The Emancipation of Eva Gray', was released in 2021 in parallel with ‘Afterlight’, a new album and distinct new stage name. Thea’s latest EP, 'Was', came out in October 2022. Sean, from Stockton-on-Tees, co-founded The Young’uns with David Eagle and Michael Hughes. The Young'uns' new album, 'Tiny Notes', is due in March 2023. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 15 Dec 22 - 03:16 PM https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk?sort=popular BBC Sounds Folk Programmes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/music/folk/player BBC Folk Programmes |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: Steve Gardham Date: 15 Dec 22 - 03:31 PM Bryony Griffith and Alice Jones have just been singing songs from their latest album on Radio 3, about 6.30. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 15 Dec 22 - 03:52 PM BBC Radio 3 In Tune 15 December 2022 Hanna Hipp, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones BBC Sounds In Tune 29 days left to listen Sean Rafferty is joined by mezzo-soprano Hanna Hipp, who performs live in the studio ahead of her concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra. Isobel Waller-Bridge gives us a sneak preview of her soundtrack to the adaptation of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, which broadcasts on BBC1 on Christmas Eve. Plus folk duo Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones perform their new single - traditional Yorkshire Christmas song 'Early Pearly' - in the studio. Tracklist 1 John Foster While shepherds watched their flocks by night 10 Trad. The Grey Goose and Gander 14 Trad. Early Pearly 17 Trad. The Christmas Goose |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 Dec 22 - 07:56 PM Another page listing BBC Radio Available for over a year https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171922 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Dec 22 - 01:25 AM 23 December 2023 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. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST Date: 24 Dec 22 - 12:09 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 of Soul Music available on BBC Sounds. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Dec 22 - 12:46 PM Broadcast Friday 23 December 2022 10.00 BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Available on BBC Sounds for over a year. At 53 minutes. The fiddler and folk singer Bryony Griffith and singer, instrumentalist and percussive step dancer, Alice Jones joined forces and earlier this year they released an album of Yorkshire songs and folklore: “A year too late and a month too soon”. They join Krupa Padhy live in the studio to discuss the tradition and to perform a Yorkshire Christmas song, Early Pearly, again! Their version comes from the record Trans Pennine by Dave Hillery and Harry Boardman (Haley Paley) and a recording of Margaret Gardham - yes, Steve Gardham's Mum - on the Yorkshire Garland website. Sadly, their song is abruptly truncated after the introduction! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 25 Dec 22 - 06:34 PM 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. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 29 Dec 22 - 08:12 AM BBC Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 2 Wednesday 4 January 9pm Anglo-Scottish folk-rock supergroup The Magpie Arc; Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson, Findlay Napier, Alex Hunter and Tom A. Wright. Wednesday 11 January 9pm 21st Century Folk with Thea Gilmore and Sean Cooney Sunday 15 January 20:00 BBC Radio 2 21st Century Folk Singers write brand new songs about real people from the North East of England. 20:00 1/5 Andrea: Food and Friendship in Sunderland Andrea Bell runs a soup kitchen and food bank in Sunderland. Martyn Joseph writes a song inspired by Andrea and her fellow volunteers. 20:25 2/5 Delyth: Gifts of Hope in Blyth After Delyth Raffell lost her teenage daughter, Ellen, she founded a charity that supports disabled children. Singer Thea Gilmore writes a new song inspired by the family. 20:50 3/5 Ifti: Care, Community and Football in Middlesbrough Sean Cooney and Teesside band The Young’uns write a song about Doctor Iftikhar Lone, his dedication to his patients, his love of Middlesbrough FC, and his battle with Covid. 21:15 4/5 Michael: Life On Wearside Docks Michael Dodds is a fifth-generation foyboatman on Wearside. Squeeze’s Chris Difford and singer Kathryn Williams write a song about Michael’s life and work. 21:40 5/5 Katie: Parties with a Difference in Northumberland Katie Toner runs accessible parties and sleepovers for neurodivergent children. Angeline Morrison and The Unthanks tell Katie’s story through music. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 29 Dec 22 - 08:29 AM BBC Sounds Radio Scotland; Take the Floor Sat 17 Dec 2022 Compilation Programme 18 days left to listen Christmas Day Festive Special 26 days left to listen 31 December 2022 20:00 Hogmanay Ceilidh 07 January 2023 19:00 Iain MacPhail Dance Band From October 2022. Special guest is Barbara Dickson. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 30 Dec 22 - 03:05 PM 31 December 2022 Music Planet 16:00 BBC Radio 3 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. A new series of This Cultural Life starts this week on BBC Radio 4, Saturdays at 19.15. Eliza Carthy is expected to be among John Wilson's guests. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 01 Jan 23 - 04:38 AM 250 years of 'Amazing Grace'. The hymn was written for a New Year service in 1773. 01 January 2023 BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship BBC Sounds Available for 29 days. Featuring a broad variety of arrangements of the famous hymn and reflections from those who’ve performed or adapted it, including Bob Chilcott, Karen Gibson, John Rutter and Will Todd. Also 08 January 2023 13:15 BBC1 S0ngs of Praise On 1 January 1773, John Newton’s now famous words were first performed in the parish church where he was curate. 250 years on, Claire visits that same church to discover the remarkable story behind the hymn, the extraordinary life of its composer and the reasons for the composition’s enduring power. In Olney, Claire meets local experts who reflect on the life of John Newton, from his early years of debauchery as a sailor and then as a slave trader to his later life as a dedicated clergy man, hymn writer and abolitionist. Claire hears how a moment of epiphany at sea sparked a deep Christian faith that helped him to realise the full horror of his actions and compelled him to spend the rest of his life serving others and striving to abolish the evil of slavery. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 01 Jan 23 - 05:21 AM Amazing Grace. The Museum of the Bible suggests that the hymn was first sung at the Manor Of Olney rather than the Parish Church. "It was January 1, 1773. John Newton led his congregation down the road from the parish church in Olney, England, to Lord Dartmouth’s Great Hall to sing “new” music not traditionally allowed by the Anglican Church." The Lordship of Olney; Lord Dartmouth’s great interest in the Evangelical Revival earned him the name of the Psalm Singer, and though Colonial Secretary in 1772–5 and Lord Privy Seal in 1775–82 he found opportunity for interest in the schemes of Newton and for correspondence with the leading members of the seriously-minded society of his day. The Museum of the Bible; January 1, 2023, is the 250th anniversary of the first time “Amazing Grace” was ever sung. In celebration, Museum of the Bible has launched an online exhibit today. Enjoy a timeline of some of the most pivotal moments in the song’s life and see how each verse of the song corresponds to a part of Newton’s New Year’s Day sermon. Guests can also listen to different historical adaptations of the song through our jukebox feature, experiencing the many verses and tunes that have been part of the hymn. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 Jan 23 - 06:23 AM 05 January 2023 15:00 BBC Radio 4 Open Country Folk on the Hills. Then on BBC Sounds for a month. Folk musician Johnny Campbell is recording an album of songs from the summits and industrial hotspots of northern England. Jez Lowe joins him at Kinder Scout in Derbyshire to celebrate ninety years since the ‘Right to Roam’ movement began and explore the traditional songs of the Peak District. Jez meets local singer Bella Hardy to hear how her home in Edale has inspired and influenced her work, and writer Roly Smith who can explain the history of Kinder and the 1932 mass trespass. It may be ninety years ago, but for young global folk stars Kate Griffin and Ford Collier of Mishra, the call for a right to roam is still relevant. They have recorded a version of Ewan MacColl’s ‘Manchester Rambler’, a song inspired by the Kinder trespass. Jez meets Kate, Ford, Johnny and Bella to hear how a new generation of musicians are continuing MacColl’s legacy of folk singers fighting for our rights in the countryside. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 04 Jan 23 - 09:18 AM ^ Open Country - Folk on the Hills https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gl6x (idk for sure but Open Country progs are usually available for over a year ,,,) |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 Jan 23 - 04:17 PM Open Country St Just in Midwinter broadcast Christmas Eve 2022 Available now (indefinitely?) on BBC Sounds Helen Mark tries to live in the moment at a deserted cliff edge chapel, hears carols that have deep ties to Cornwall's tin mining heritage, and comes face to face with hell's snarling jaws as she visits the town of St Just in Penwith. In the heart of the town is the "plen-an-gwari", one of the last of the Cornish medieval amphitheatres built to host a sequence of religious mystery plays, the Ordinalia. Centuries after their suppression, the plays were revived in the 2000s as a community-wide venture that once again brought them, and the "plen", to the centre of community life. And at the Miner's Chapel we hear how the tin mines which once dominated the area gave rise to a tradition of local carolling that survives to this day, with Alan Cargeeg and his fellow singers. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 Jan 23 - 04:43 PM BBC Radio 4 Open Country - 458 episodes available now on BBC Sounds! April 15, 2021 - Open Country; Songs of England https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v2x0 Singer Sam Lee has paired folk songs with some of English Heritage's greatest sites. 2 November, 2019 - Open Country; Folklore and Ghost Stories in Northumberland https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009t5d Jez Lowe is a singer and writer and in this Halloween episode of Open Country he explores the slightly sinister song and story of Northumberland. Further into the park he learns about the murderous Duergarr and meets Rachel Unthank to hear about the traditional song that depict maidens turned into serpents and cruel sisters. July 5, 2018 - Open Country; Tynemouth Sea and Song https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b8b7rg Folk singer Jez Lowe uncovers the traditions of seafaring and song in Tynemouth and North Shields. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio last week 2023 From: Felipa Date: 04 Jan 23 - 04:50 PM during the holiday period, BBC Radio Ulster (Northern Ireland) featured a lot of extended interviews with renowned people. The ones I happened to listen to by chance were Fr. Brian Darcy in conversation with Irish country singer Philomena Begley https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001gkw6 Released On: 02 Jan 2023 Available for 29 days (as of 4 Jan 2023) and an interview with Neil Martin, who plays cello and uileann pipes and has done a lot of performance linking classical and traditional music on Talkback 30 Dec 2022, available for 24 days (as of 4 Jan 2023). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gk21 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 04 Jan 23 - 08:17 PM Thanks Felipa And I see that on what they call the 'clips' page both interviews are available in full as videos. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dq7v/clips I dont know what 'Radio' Ulster are up to! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 04 Jan 23 - 08:23 PM ! ^ oops No, the videos are the one with Philomena Begley and one with Paul Brady (Lynette Fay speaks to folk legend Paul Brady) |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 11 Jan 23 - 05:02 AM Front Row - 10 Jan 2023 19.15 How AI is changing art, the TS Eliot Prize for poetry and the folk music of wassailing It’s the time of year when lovers of orchards, apples and cider gather to bless and encourage their trees. The tradition of wassailing is ancient, and modern too. Jim Causley from Whimple, Dartmoor, sings wassails old and new, and with artist Simon Pope talk about their project ‘Here’s to Thee’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gwzk > ~13:30 (They clip they play is from the recording by Peter Kennedy Walter Sealy and Harry Sealy wassail songs, Ash Priors, Somerset 1957. Tape 2 https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Peter-Kennedy-Collection/025M-C0604X0974XX-0001V0) (Simon Pope's HERE'S TO THEE Experiments with the more-than-human social worlds of Devonshire cidermaking http://heres-to-thee.org.uk/) (THE HALSTOW WASSAIL A FILM BY BEVIS BOWDEN https://www.bevisbowdenfilms.co.uk/work#/new-gallery-5/) (“Here’s To Thee” Cecil Sharp House, London Hear songs old and new, and watch Bevis Bowden’s new film The Halstow Wassail. Wednesday 11 Jan 2023 7:30pm-9:30pm https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/11933-here-s-to-thee) |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 11 Jan 23 - 06:02 AM "Jim Causley from Whimple, Dartmoor, sings wassails old and new." Jim Causley comes from Whimple in East Devon, which was also the home of Whiteways cider and the centre of the extensive orchards there. The Causley family home was the village of Trusham in West Devon. Jim now lives on Dartmoor, also in West Devon. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Jan 23 - 07:07 AM BBC Radio 2 Sunday 15 January 20:00 Mark Radcliffe presents 21st Century Folk 21st Century Folk article Now available on demand on BBC Sounds but only for 24 days! 21st Century Folk |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Jan 23 - 02:21 PM BBC RADIO 4 Front Row 19:15 18 January 2023 Hepworth, Moore, landscape and cows' backs; fiddle player John McCusker; novelist Victoria MacKenzie John McCusker discusses and performs live from his new ‘Best of ‘Album, which celebrates his 30-year career as one of Scotland’s most acclaimed fiddle players and musical collaborators. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 18 Jan 23 - 02:36 PM ^ John McCusker First ~15 minutes of tonight's Front Row - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h60p |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 19 Jan 23 - 11:37 AM Ivor Cutler - Love him or hate him,,, Quite a lot of music and he has followers here. Radio 4Extra - Wednesdays: January 18th ; 25th ; February 2nd Cutler the Lax - 2014 Legendary Scottish surrealist Ivor Cutler,,,, Episode 1 - ,,, provides disappointment for cavemen and a cheap alternative to liquor. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vczgx Episode 2 - ,,, discovers ancient Egyptian music and what the Dutch think of British pubs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zx9pg Episode 3 - ,,, samples the archives and enjoys some Marabut music and a jolly Japanese ditty. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040hrx4 episodes guide https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vczg2/episodes/player |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 23 Jan 23 - 11:02 AM Good programme for Burns night\week: Travelling Folk - 19th Jan 2023 - Radio Scotland Allan Henderson explores the story of Robert Burns through the music that immortalises him and is in conversation with national treasure, Sheena Wellington. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h3x2 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: Felipa Date: 24 Jan 23 - 04:04 PM Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) From: Rain Dog Date: 24 Jan 23 - 02:04 PM Broadcast this afternoon on BBC Radio 4. Available to listen to on BBC Sounds Great Lives Adjoa Andoh on Zora Neale Hurston https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001hfck Actor Adjoa Andoh has a list of TV, theatre and film credits as long as your arm. She's best known worldwide as Bridgerton's Lady Danbury, and is due to direct - and star in the title role - in a new production of Richard III. Her great life is the 20th century American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God". An iconic figure in the literature of the jazz age, her name was all but forgotten after her death in 1960, before being pulled back into public consciousness in the US by fellow author Alice Walker in the 1970s. Adjoa makes the case that we should all know more about Zora, a trailblazer who - on top of her writing career - researched zombies in the Caribbean and helped collect the stories of slavery's last survivors. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: Felipa Date: 25 Jan 23 - 03:28 PM this evening, on the anniversary of Rabbie Burns' birthday (and also Ewan MacColl's), BBC Radio Ulster aired a programme about "fellow" songwriter, Lady Nairne. I recognised that name right away, but didn't recognise the name "Carolina Oliphant". I found the programme, immensely interesting, and commend it to you - even though it is mostly talk and a lot of the singing featured is performed in what I would call a parlour song style. Here is an article about the programme "The Secret Bard" The programme is available for listening till late Feb (29 days from broadcast) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hfm1 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 28 Jan 23 - 03:15 PM Eliza Carthy - 2023 This Cultural Life - Radio 4 She tells John Wilson about the first time she attended the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in 1989, aged 13. Standing on the main stage at sunset overlooking the mountains and sea was a defining moment at the start of her career. She also discusses the influence that singer Billy Bragg and Scottish folk rock band Shooglenifty had on her music. Eliza also talks about the impact of the pandemic on the folk music community and the personal loss of her mother. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hnxb |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Jan 23 - 03:18 PM Just listened to Eliza on this programme and it was superb Please listen to it. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: Bonzo3legs Date: 29 Jan 23 - 06:12 AM Excellent Take the Floor from BBC Radio Scotland last night, 2 bands - almost 2 hours of live music! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 29 Jan 23 - 06:42 AM Loose Ends BBC Radio 4 28 Jan 2023 Available for over a year Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Layton Williams, for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Nickel Creek and Sacha T Award-winning trio Nickel Creek aka mandolinist Chris Thile, violinist Sara Watkins and guitarist Sean Watkins will release 'Celebrants', their first new album in nine years, on March 24th via Thirty Tigers. Ahead of the release, the new song, ‘Strangers’, came out this week. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: DaveRo Date: 01 Feb 23 - 11:26 AM Knowing that her followers have short memories, Charlie Dore waited until the last moment to send us a newsletter: Tonight at 9pm for the first time we’ll be playing live on Radio 2’s Folk Show with the now approaching legendary status Mark Radcliffe at the helm. We’re very honoured as the live sessions are a more rare event these days…three songs and a chat with Lord Radcliffe of Bolton. Hurrah!https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hdfp |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 01 Feb 23 - 09:05 PM The Hills are Alive! Commoners Choir in Calderdale - 2 Feb 2023 15:00 Ramblings - Boff Whalley is best known for Tubthumping with the band Chumbawamba but now he’s a core member of the Leeds based Commoners Choir which he founded. They sing about the world around them, about inequality and injustice, and they also love to walk. Cath Long, a fellow member, wrote to Ramblings to ask Clare to join them on a hike in the South Pennines near Todmorden in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. So, on a chilly, wet and blustery Saturday in early January, they met by the Shepherd’s Rest pub and headed into the hills to ramble and sing. Boff created a choir manifesto, and one aim was to 'rehearse until we're brilliant' and they really are. Their Skelmanthorpe Flag Song (https://youtu.be/SIsryw_3gfk), which they performed at the historic Basin Stone, was heard by fellow walkers at least two miles down in the valley. On a circular hike, which began and ended at the pub, they stopped off at Gaddings Dam, often described as the highest beach in the UK, where some choir members took the plunge and sang out from the wind-blown waves of the reservoir. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hnmg |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 07 Feb 23 - 06:50 AM BBC Sounds Radio 4 7 February 2023 In Time to the Music; The House of the Rising Sun The third episode explores the journey of The House of the Rising Sun - was it based on a 17th-century broadside ballad that travelled from northern England to the Appalachian Mountains in the US? Some version of it or a similar ballad passed down through generations until it was captured in a recording by celebrated musicologist Alan Lomax in the 1930s. It was a key song in the folk revival of the 1960s before becoming a hit for The Animals in 1964. The programme also examines other music that has travelled through time. Featuring musicologists Professor Laura Tunbridge, Professor Richard Dumbrill, singer Ian Shaw and pianist and educator Gareth Williams. Written and Presented by Andrew McGibbon |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 Feb 23 - 10:56 AM BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Released On: 22 Feb 2023 Available on BBC Sounds for over a year Eleanor McEvoy is one of Ireland's foremost songwriters and has worked with the likes of U2, Sinead O'Connor and Mary Black. She is the composer and co-performer of A Woman's Heart, the title track for the best-selling Irish album in Irish history, and one of Ireland's favourite folk songs, which recently featured in the award winning Derry Girls. One of Eleanor's songs, Sophie, is used in treatment centres to treat patients with eating disorders. She joins Nuala live in the studio to discuss her UK tour, the inspiration behind the tracks of her most recent album Gimme Some Wine and to perform the track South Anne Street. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 23 Feb 23 - 01:42 PM BBC Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jb1c BBC Folk show Available now; 1st Feb Songwriter Charlie Dore plays live in the company of Julian Littman; 8 days left to listen 8th Feb Irish singer Lisa O'Neill talks to Mark about her latest album, All of This is Chance; 15 days left to listen 15th Feb Singer and musician Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin shares music from his album The Deepest Breath; 22 days left to listen 22nd Feb From Lankum to Lady Nade; 29 days left to listen Coming up; 01 March 2023 Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow perform songs from their new album Cloudheads. 08 March 2023 TBA 15 March 2023 Lisa Knapp, Marry Waterson and Nathaniel Mann perform in their new trio: Hack-Poets Guild. 22 March 2023 TBA |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST Date: 03 Mar 23 - 04:36 PM A Jig into History - 2023 Sunday Feature - R3 With a copy of Kemp’s recollection of his feat ‘Kemps Nine Daies Wonder’ under her arm, Professor Nandini Das takes to the streets of London to examine the impact of Kemp’s endeavour and explain why it had as much to do with merchant venturing as it did street and theatrical entertainment. She’s joined by scholars Tracey Hill, Daisy Black and the former Olympian Peter Radford, all of whom believe that while Shakespeare’s legacy endures through a clear line of English Theatrical tradition, Kemp’s journey should also be seen as an early example of the enduring tradition of ordinary folk making sporting endeavour and entertainment pay. Producer Tom Alban https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001j4rz |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST Date: 03 Mar 23 - 04:45 PM Government Song Woman - Sun 5th March 2023 Sunday Feature - R3 American musician Rhiannon Giddens investigates the fascinating life and recordings of the folk song collector Sidney Robertson Cowell. Travelling thousands of miles all over the US in the depression era, Cowell was willing to track down songs in unlikely places, once writing "I don't scare easily." She spent a night riding in a hearse in Wisconsin just to question the driver and hear his songs, walked up mountains to record lumberjacks and traditional Appalachian singers and poled three miles downriver after dark on a makeshift raft to find a famed fiddler in his goldmine in California. Listening to her recordings is like travelling back in time; they capture the voices of so many different nationalities that emigrated to the US, but she also made recordings on the Aran Islands in Ireland. During her lifetime Cowell was marginalised like so many women collectors of that period, but in this celebration of her recordings and observations, Giddens finally gives her work the attention it deserves. With indebted thanks to the American Folklife Center archive in the Library of Congress who hold the collection of Sidney Robertson Cowell's recordings and to the following contributors who have done so much to bring her work to light: Cathy Hiebert Kerst, folklorist and archivist who catalogued Sidney's recordings of the WPA California Folk Project. Sheryl Kaskowitz, scholar of American music and author of forthcoming book: The Music Unit: FDR's Hidden New Deal Program that Tried to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time. Jim P Leary, a folklorist and scholar of Scandinavian studies, and a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of Folksongs of Another America. Dr. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile writer, researcher and musician (she plays fiddle with Rhiannon at the end of the programme) who has written about the collecting work of Sidney Robertson Cowell on the Aran Islands in the 1950s. Robert Cochrane, Professor of English and folklore specialist at the University of Arkansas. Peggy Seeger, folksinger. California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell: https://www.loc.gov/collections/sidney-robertson-cowell-northern-california-folk-music/about-this-collection/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jlm9 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 05 Mar 23 - 05:09 AM https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hph9 Metal City Sunday Feature Metal City BBC Radio 3 Sunday 5 February 2023 Gregory Leadbetter’s poem traces this story from the discovery of ore in the Staffordshire hills, through the Staffordshire Hoard, the Birmingham Pieces from the Knights Templar, the establishment and development of Birmingham as a great metalworking centre becoming the Toyshop of the World, the development of steam power by Matthew Boulton, being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the City of a Thousand Trades, all the way to the birth of Heavy Metal Music. Vocal Music: ‘Ommer ‘Ommer ‘Ommer – a nail maker’s verse set to music by Caroline Price. Sung by Stream of Sound. Final Chorus of Mendelssohn’s Oratorio Elijah, famously premiered in August 1846 in Birmingham’s Town Hall. Song of Steam – a Birmingham broadside ballad set to an old Hymn tune and arranged by Caroline Price. Sung by Stream of Sound. Metal City – a specially composed song based on the old Jack of All Trades broadside ballads. Words and music by Caroline and Matt Price. Sung by Stream of Sound. Stream of Sound was one of the first UK folk choirs. Based in Stourbridge, they have a particular interest in the folk music of the West Midlands. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 05 Mar 23 - 06:42 AM https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnwp/episodes/player?page=7 Sunday Feature BBC Sounds Available now 421 episodes including Andy Kershaw introduces his own cassette recordings of music from his travels during the 1980s and 1990s. More Kershaw Tapes Even more Kershaw Tapes |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST Date: 05 Mar 23 - 05:59 PM I'm looking forward to listening to 'Metal City'. Thanks. The Sunday Feature series has some great programmes. The only folky ones I'd found are on the 'over a year' thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171922 & do a word search for Sunday Feature. ,,,a couple more of Kershaw plus Cathy & Brian Peters |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 Mar 23 - 06:22 AM Government Song Woman BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature 5 March 2023 Available now on BBC Sounds American musician Rhiannon Giddens investigates the fascinating life and recordings of the folk song collector Sidney Robertson Cowell. Travelling thousands of miles all over the US in the depression era, Cowell was willing to track down songs in unlikely places, once writing "I don't scare easily." Listening to her recordings is like travelling back in time; they capture the voices of so many different nationalities that emigrated to the US, but she also made recordings on the Aran Islands in Ireland. Songs for the Dead Saturday 20 Aug 2016 15:30 BBC Radio 4 Available now on BBC Sounds Marie-Louise Muir explores the tradition of Ireland's keening women, who were once paid to cry, wail and sing over the dead at wake houses and funerals. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST Date: 15 Mar 23 - 07:19 AM A fairly folky poetry programme from 2020. Features Kathryn and her father Mike Tickell. The Dam - available for ~4 weeks Poetry Extra Award-winning writer David Almond tells a timely true story about the flooding of Northumberland's Kielder Valley 40 years ago to make a dam, and the music and poetry which lie submerged within us all This had been one of the wildest corners of the county - a place of farms and homesteads, a school and a stretch of railway. It had also been a place of music and song, dancing and legends. Now it was all to be flooded in order to create the largest artificial lake in the UK. David tells of the father and daughter who visited the abandoned homes on the eve of the sealing of the dam, playing one last song before the diggers moved in, the valley was submerged and they were lost forever. "He woke her early. 'Bring your fiddle,' he said. The day was dawning. Into the valley they walked....." In a programme resonant with birdsong, running streams, sighing trees, leaping salmon and first-person testimonial, this is a story about the reservoirs of music, poetry and song in us all. Featuring Northumbrian folk music, with additional fiddle-playing by Georgia Russelll, the programme culminates in a revelation by David about the identity of the protagonists in this haunting story. Based around David Almond's picture book, The Dam, with illustrations by Levi Pinfold, published by Walker Studio. With additional fiddle-playing by Georgia Russell Producer: Beaty Rubens First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k01b |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Mar 23 - 09:02 PM BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends 18 Mar 2023 Loose Ends Available on BBC Sounds for over a year Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by Frank Skinner, Sophie Okonedo, Gurdeep Loyal and Sam Brown for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Daoirí Farrell and Say She She. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 19 Mar 23 - 01:02 PM BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature 18:45 Sunday 09 April 2023 Please Mr Lacey, Let Me Work Your Lovely Machine Bruce Lacey defies categorisation. He painted, made sculptures, films, installations and was a performance artist in the 60s. Roger Law goes in search of an artistic enigma. Lacey's robots appeared on the Fairport Convention LP What We Did On Our Holidays (1969) in the song "Mr Lacey", written by Ashley Hutchings. The song is about Lacey, and the noise of his robots (which he brought into the studio) contribute the "instrumental break". Please Mr Lacey, let me work your loving machine Please Mr Lacey, let me work your loving machine Will you let me control the handles, You know it's the best thing I've ever seen |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 27 Mar 23 - 09:49 AM BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Thursday 20:00-22:00 Available now on BBC Sounds; An Dannsa Dub Scottish Folk/Reggae band An Dannsa Dub joins Anna in the studio to talk about their debut album Air An Turas. 26 days left to listen. The Lullaby Project & Lullaby Nana Ahead of Mother's Day, Anna is joined by Tara-Jean, the organiser of the Feis Rois Lullaby Project, and we also hear from Marie-Louise Napier about her new album 'Lullaby Nana'. 19 days left to listen. Malin Lewis and The Official Folk Album Chart Anna Massie catches up with Malin Lewis to talk about their new EP and album, and we run through the Top 10 of the Official Folk Album Charts. 12 days left to listen. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 27 Mar 23 - 05:19 PM BBC Radio 3 Music Planet Sunday 26 March Béla Fleck Lopa Kothari is joined by banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck to share some of their favourite sounds from around the globe. 27 days left to listen on BBC Sounds |
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