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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 19 Sep 23 - 03:42 AM Today 19 September 16:00 BBC Radio 4 The Compass Crossing the Cuillin Mountains In this two part series, we accompany the writer and mountaineer Robert Macfarlane on his attempt to complete the Cuillin Ridge. This expedition marks twenty years since his first book 'Mountains of the Mind' in which he tries to understand the human fascination with mountains. Along the way, he muses on the ways in which these particular mountains have been explored imaginatively and in reality. The reality for Robert is both challenging and wonderful. Two modern works are weaved throughout Robert's journey. The words of the great late Gaelic poet Sorely MacLean who knew these mountains intimately and wrote of them in his long poem, 'The Cuillin'. And the more recent musical work of fiddler and composer Duncan Chisholm and his album 'Black Cuillin'. We also feature brand new music from Duncan Chisholm and Gaelic Singer Julie Fowlis. Plus a song with lyrics by Robert Macfarlane based on his experience of the Ridge. Presented by Robert Macfarlane Produced by Helen Needham Mountain Guide - Richard Parker Readings by Julie Fowlis and Sorley MacLean Music by Duncan Chisholm, Julie Fowlis and Donald Shaw Mixed by Ron McCaskill A BBC Scotland Production made in Aberdeen for BBC Radio 4. Tuesday 26 September 16:00 BBC Radio 4 The Inaccessible Pinnacle Before Breakfast Crossing the Cuillin Mountains Robert Macfarlane crosses the iconic Cuillin Ridge on the Isle of Skye |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Sep 23 - 05:53 AM I don't know how folky this will be - if at all. Simon Armitage and the band do perform in clubs. Saturday afternoon 15:00 16 September 2023 Drama on 4 The Ballad of Eldon Street - an unnatural history. A new form of radio ballad to mark the centenary of Radio Drama on the BBC. The story of this iconic Barnsley street told by the people who know it best, interwoven with specially composed songs written by LYR - Simon Armitage, Patrick J Pearson and Richard Walters. With Malcolm Bird, Ann Bunting, Alison Dixon, Wayne Johnson, Tegwen Roberts, Peter Roberts and Steven Skelley. Music performed by Simon Armitage, Patrick Pearson, Richard Walters, Matt Taylor, Beth Bellis and Mike Monahan. Produced by Susan Roberts A BBC Drama North Production |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: Rain Dog Date: 10 Sep 23 - 02:11 AM BBC Radio 4 Seek the Light "Award-winning folk musician Karine Polwart weaves together stories of science, history and the natural world around a theme of light." Last episode on BBC Radio 4 today at 13.30 The previous 2 episodes are available for the next month. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 Aug 23 - 04:04 AM Cropredy 2023 Radio Oxford www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g4tvk8 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 12 Aug 23 - 06:39 AM BBC Sounds Desert Island Discs Shirley Collins, folk singer 22 days left to listen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pf7y Shirley Collins Shirley Collins first enjoyed success as one of the leading figures in the British folk revival of the 1960s. She initially performed with her sister, Dolly Collins, and also collaborated with other folk luminaries to create some of the era’s most beloved albums. In the past decade she has made an acclaimed return to the concert stage and the recording studio. Shirley lives in Sussex, not far from her childhood home. Shirley was born in Sussex in 1935. She can still recall how her grandfather used to sing folk songs to comfort her while they were sheltering during German air raids in the early 1940s. Alongside her career as a singer, in the 1950s she travelled to the American South with Alan Lomax, where they made field recordings of blues and folk musicians, helping to create a significant archive. Later in her performing career, Shirley found that she could no longer sing, following a distressing betrayal in her private life. She stepped away from music and was silent for many years, taking on other work, including a stint in a job centre Then, in her 80s, she found her voice again. In 2016 she released her first new album after a gap of almost four decades, and she has since released two more albums. DISC ONE: Chiling O Guiry - Concerto Caledonia DISC TWO: The Birds in the Spring - The Copper Family DISC THREE: Who Would True Valour See - Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band DISC FOUR: Dear Father, Pray Build Me a Boat - Sheila Smith DISC FIVE: 61 Highway Blues - Mississippi Fred McDowell DISC SIX: Poor Sally Sits a-weeping - Dolly Collins DISC SEVEN: A Heart Needs A Home - Richard & Linda Thompson DISC EIGHT: Going Home - Mark Knopfler BOOK CHOICE: A collection of Brodie detective novels by Kate Atkinson LUXURY ITEM: A solar powered fridge filled with Italian Ice cream and two lipsticks CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Poor Sally Sits a Weeping |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 10 Aug 23 - 06:10 AM BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Available now on BBC Sounds; Gareth Williams: Songs From The Last Page; 23 days left to listen New feature Back Tracks continues plus composer and musicians Gareth Williams joins Anna live to talk about his latest album. Back Tracks and Éadaoin Ní Mhaicín in Session; 16 days left to listen Folky Rewind; 9 days left to listen News of Travelling Folk's Edinburgh Festival show 2023 & The Official Folk Album Chart; 2 days left to listen Today 10 August BBC 8pm Radio Scotland; Peatbog Faeries & The Official Folk Album Chart 17 August At the Edinburgh Festivals; Anna hosts an evening of live music from the heart of the Edinburgh Festivals featuring Deirdre Graham, Tide Lines, Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards & Kinnaris Quintet |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 10 Aug 23 - 05:33 AM BBC Radio 2 Folk Show Available Episodes on BBC Sounds; Round the block and over the sea 29 days left to listen Cambridge Folk Festival 2023 Extended Highlights 22 days left to listen Cambridge Folk Festival 2023 22 days left to listen Whirlpools and brooks 15 days left to listen Acoustic music 8 days left to listen Rhiannon Giddens on songwriting 1 day left to listen Next episode; 9pm 16 August BBC Radio 2 Ellie Gowers in session Warwickshire songwriter Ellie Gowers performs songs from her album Dwelling by the Weir. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,RJM Date: 09 Aug 23 - 03:26 AM I enjoyed desert island discs with Shirley Collins |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,Guest Date: 08 Aug 23 - 08:18 PM The BBC would not know folk music from a hole in the arse!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,patriot Date: 05 Aug 23 - 01:24 PM cue for me to turn off the radio, I'm afraid |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 05 Aug 23 - 01:22 PM 18.15 Saturday 5 August 2023 / 21.30 Sunday 6 August 2023 and BBC Sounds BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends Anneka Rice and Yolanda Brown are joined by Kevin Rowland, Lou Sanders, Poppy Jay and Sam Palladio for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Beth Nielsen Chapman and Sabiyha. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 31 Jul 23 - 05:08 AM BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends 18.30 Saturday 29 July repeated 21.30 Sunday 30 July 2023 and BBC Sounds Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Freema Agyeman, John O'Farrell, Dr Xand van Tulleken and Ravinder Bhogal for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lady Nade and Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 31 Jul 23 - 04:43 AM Shirley Collins on Desert Island Discs with Lauren Laverne! BBC Radio 4 11.15 Sunday, 6 August, repeated 9.00am Friday 11 August, plus BBC Sounds Shirley Collins, folksinger, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury that she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: DaveRo Date: 29 Jul 23 - 05:23 PM GUEST wrote: The “Proms” should be worth listening to this Friday (21st) with the Fado Prom with Mariza and her band of excellent musicians.I was hoping this would be televised but no sign of it - maybe it will be some day. So I finally got round to listening. And I was startled: she had an orchestral backing! She'd been smoothed down, made more familiar to the proms audience. I've seen Mariza live several times, but always with her own backing group. Here she had an accordian, Spanish guitar, Portuguese guitar, bass and drums. When the orchestra shut up it was much better - and appreciated more by the the usual substantial Portuguese contingent in the audience. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nnzb Her usual encore, O Gente da Minha Terra, is at 74 mins |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 Jul 23 - 03:07 PM 29 July 2023 BBC Radio 4 9am Saturday Live Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people; Peggy Seeger, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Ruth Birch, Dave Mustaine |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST Date: 28 Jul 23 - 03:03 PM 28 July 2023 BBC Radio 4 19.15 Add to List Film and TV composer Debbie Wiseman OBE and musician and fiddler Sam Sweeney, formerly of the folk group Bellowhead, join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye as they choose the next five tracks, in the penultimate episode of the current series. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,Joe G Date: 24 Jul 23 - 04:56 AM Yesterday's Words & Music on Radio 3 was about Northumbria with several folkies featured including The Unthanks, Kathryn Tickell & Alistair Anderson |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Jul 23 - 09:39 AM A curiosity! BBC One TV today 2.15pm to 2.45pm Robson Green's Weekend Escapes Series 1, Episode 5 Robson Green and Sandra Kerr sing Water of Tyne. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 16 Jul 23 - 07:20 PM The Proms photo I think : Simon Rattle, Anna Lapwood Dee Dee Bridgewater ; Yuja Wang Sheku Kanneh Mason ; Marin Alsop ; Mariza ; Felix Klieser www.bbc.com/mediacentre/mediapacks/proms-2023 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST Date: 16 Jul 23 - 11:42 AM The “Proms” should be worth listening to this Friday (21st) with the Fado Prom with Mariza and her band of excellent musicians. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: DaveRo Date: 16 Jul 23 - 05:01 AM Here's the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nnvd In the picture on that page I recognise Simon Rattle, Sheku Kanneh Mason, Marin Alsop, and Mariza. Who are the others? |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,Guest Date: 16 Jul 23 - 03:22 AM Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Proms 8pm, BBC Four & BBC Radio 3 . . . . . that is, TONIGHT, 16 July! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,Guest Date: 16 Jul 23 - 03:20 AM Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Proms 8pm, BBC Four & BBC Radio 3 "The best-known work of Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi is the centrepiece of this concert from top chamber orchestra the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. It will be heard as never before, as the original pastoral scenes are interspersed with folk music improvisations from violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto and citternist Ale Carr" .............. should be interesting |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 11 Jul 23 - 03:08 PM Front Row BBC Radio 4 11/07/23 Sally Potter is best known as a filmmaker- from Orlando starring Tilda Swinton to The Roads Not Taken with Javier Bardem. But she's also a musician, collaborating on the scores for all of her films. Now Sally has released her first album as a singer-songwriter, Pink Bikini and joins Nick Ahad to reflect on this musical coming of age. https://www.ft.com/content/b681be00-9061-4fca-8e0b-057256ffd8be Sally Potter |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 20 Jun 23 - 01:34 PM BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show Wednesday 9.00pm 21 June Folk for midsummer, with guest Cinder Well, aka Amelia Baker. Amelia Baker from California recently moved to County Clare on Ireland's west coast. Her second album under the name Cinder Well is called Cadence, and she tells Mark about the inspirations behind it. Plus music to mark today's Summer Solstice, or Midsummer's Day. 28 June Shirley Collins chats to Mark from her Sussex home. After a long time away from music-making, Shirley has released a string of acclaimed albums in her 80s, the latest being Archangel Hill. 5 July Billie Marten, just back from a US tour, drops into the studio to sing live. Plus, the usual blend of classic tracks, exciting new releases and news from the folk world. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: Rain Dog Date: 27 Apr 23 - 10:12 AM BBC Radio 4 now. Available shortly on BBC Sounds Open Country - Chasing Jamie Allan "Jamie Allan was a celebrated musician and friend of the aristocracy, but also a thief, bigamist, and deserter. Known as "The Dukes Piper", he is the source of many songs and legends in Northumbria. In this programme, folk singer Jez Lowe traces one of these legends across the Rivers Ouse and Nidd, over which Jamie Allan supposedly fled from army conscription to freedom in Scotland. As he crosses the waterways of North Yorkshire, Jez finds out about the life and adventures of this Robin Hood figure from the 18th century, and enjoys some of the music he would have played." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: Rain Dog Date: 25 Apr 23 - 03:14 PM BBC Radio 4 today at 19.15 - will be available soon on BBC sounds Playwright Ryan Calais Cameron, musician Stewart Copeland and is Morris dancing The last 10 minutes or so are about "Next Monday is May Day when morris dancers will perform at dawn to greet the summer. Morris dancing is itself enjoying a moment in the sun: Boss Morris, an all-female folk dance group, performed with the Best New Artist winners, Wet Leg, at this year's Brit Awards. Samira is joined by Michael Heaney, author of a new history of the dance; the musician Rob Harbron, who composes new morris tunes; and Lily Cheetham of Boss Morris – who will dance for us." More details on Michael Heaney's book here: The Ancient English Morris Dance |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Apr 23 - 06:13 AM BBC Radio Scotland Available on BBC Sounds for 5 days Travelling Folk Gaelic Songwriting & Lisa O'Neill Gaelic songs have been composed for over 1000 years. Indeed some of these earliest songs are still sung at ceilidhs and gatherings to this day. However, this unbroken chain of Gaelic song composition almost came to an end in the 1970s and 1980s. The decline of the Gaelic house ceilidhs and the decline of traditional poets meant that Gaelic songs were few and far between. However, in recent years there has been a revival of new and contemporary Gaelic songwriting. Known as the Outlander bard and language coach, Gillebrìde MacMillan is a renowned songwriter and lecturer in Gaelic Song at The University of Glasgow. In a new 10 part series on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal, Gillebrìde explores contemporary Gaelic song compositions. He joins Anna to chat about what's coming up on the series. BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal còmhla ri Gillebrìde MacIlleMhaoil Òran Annad Available on BBC Sounds 7 days left to listen Tha Gillebrìde MacIlleMhaoil a' toirt aithne agus èisdeachd dha na h-òranaichean a tha air a bhith a' cruthachadh òrain ùra ann an Gàidhlig. An t-seachdain sa òrain bho Bhinneas, Niall Gòrdan agus Dòmhnall agus Peigi Barker. Bidh Màiri NicAonghais ag innse mar a tha I fhèin a’ sgrìobhadh òrain. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: Rain Dog Date: 23 Apr 23 - 01:49 AM Not radio but on the TV. BBC FOUR 21.00 TONIGHT and will be on the iplayer afterwards. The Alehouse Sessions "The exotic musical sound-world of 17th-century London is brought vividly to life by one of the world's most dynamic and virtuosic performing groups - Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene - plus a cameo appearance by celebrated soprano Mary Bevan. Beauty, improvisation, melancholy, bawdiness - Purcell, Playford and their European contemporaries bang heads with ballads, ditties, elegies, sea-shanties and folk song. Along with a variety of classical stringed instruments, their own arrangements delight us in a joyful mix of vocals, percussion, harmonium, guitar, charango and storytelling. Filmed on location in one of London's oldest taverns, The George Inn, Southwark." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: Rain Dog Date: 17 Apr 23 - 02:59 AM On BBC Radio 4 Extra this coming friday at 20.00 21.4.23. It is already available on BBC Sounds. The Real MacColl "John Cooper Clarke looks back at the life of Ewan MacColl, a working class boy from Salford, who became renowned as a dramatist, broadcaster, songwriter and folk singer. Ewan MacColl immortalised his city, Salford, in the song Dirty Old Town. To many, he's best known as the creator of that song and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, but it's perhaps the lesser known things about him that are the most fascinating – his struggles as a young boy growing up in the Salford slums, his involvement with radical street theatre, and his re-appearance after the Second World War with a new name. Born in 1915, John Cooper Clarke looks back at MacColl's early years and formative influences and discovers how his upbringing went on to inform the important work he would go on to do in theatre, radio and in the British folk revival. With contributions from biographer Ben Harker, legendary folk artist Martin Carthy and American folk singer and musician Peggy Seeger, MacColl's partner from 1956 until the day he died. Produced by Kellie While A Smooth Operation production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 09 Apr 23 - 08:55 AM The Reunion BBC Radio 4 11:15 Sunday 16 April 2023 Sharpe It was a Napoleonic war drama to be shot in the Crimean Peninsula. But little did the producers know that they would be sending the cast and crew to film in a rapidly disintegrating Soviet Union. Once in Crimea, the whole production faced near-starvation and danger around every corner as they set about creating one of Britain’s most successful and critically acclaimed 90s television programmes, Sharpe. Our panel includes Sharpe’s author Bernard Cornwell, actor and author Julian Fellowes, then-assistant producer Stuart Sutherland, one of the “chosen men” Jason Salkey who played one of Sean Bean’s right hand men, Michael Cochrane who played Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson across the entire series, and Diana Perez who played Ramona. But, sadly, not John Tams who played sharp-shooter Daniel Hagman, co-wrote the musical score and acted as script associate to Director Tom Clegg. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: GUEST Date: 30 Mar 23 - 05:11 AM A look ahead to 2023 Shetland Folk Festival with Caroline Moyes. Radio Scotland The 41st Festival will be held between 27th April and 30th April 2023 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kq13 (mostly chat) festival lineup https://www.shetlandfolkfestival.com/line-up - |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2023 From: Rain Dog Date: 28 Mar 23 - 03:48 AM Front Row last night on BBC Radio 4 Front Row Last 15 minutes or so "Hack-Poets Guild is a collaboration between the renowned folk musicians Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann. Their new album Blackletter Garland is inspired by the collection of broadside ballads in the Bodleian Library, news sheets that circulated between the 16th and 20th Centuries." |
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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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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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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,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 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 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,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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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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