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Subject: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 Dec 22 - 07:40 PM Here's a list of links to folky BBC radio programmes & series which I've had bookmarked. They should mostly be available to hear. There are also a few links to associated BBC search and category pages. Those might contain more than folk programmes. I might make a second post for programmes currently unavailable but which might get repeats, when they will become available for thirty days. Alan Lomax - Songs of Freedom - 2015 Archive on 4 While Lomax's influence in sparking the folk music revival of the 1960s is well known, in this programme Billy Bragg tells a story of far greater significance. His central thesis is that Lomax's mission was to empower black Americans by awakening them to their folk culture. The politically charged nature of Lomax's work resulted in him being hounded out of the US during the Red scare and the FBI kept a file on him for 30 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050sbzw A Little Flat: The Music Our Ears Overlook - 2022 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.’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bkyc An Appalachian Road Trip - World Routes ,,,writer and musician Banning Eyre embarks on a journey across the state of North Carolina to hear the music and stories of some of the older players and singers who can trace a direct line back to before the age of the radio and the gramophone, to when Old Time music was a strictly oral tradition. Mount Airy Fiddlers Convention - 2010 In an interview with musician and field recordist Mike Seeger, recorded just a few months before he died, Banning discovers the roots of the music in the parallel histories of the European settlers and African slaves https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n6ykp Music from Georgia - 2010 Georgia, gateway to the Deep South, and southern end of the Appalachian Mountains ,,, Sister Fleeta Mitchell ,,, Revd Willie Mae Eberhardt ,,, Phil Tanner and the Skillet Lickers ,,, The Myers Family and Friends ,,, Art Rosenbaum ,,, the 141st Annual Alpharetta June Singing ,,, 'shape note' singing https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qzrv4 North Carolina - 2009 Joseph Aquilla Thompson ,,, Sheila Kay Adams ,,, Benton Flippen and his Smokey Valley boys https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nh5zy Andy Kershaw Andy's Kitchen and On the Road in Africa - 2020 Sunday Feature - Radio 3 Andy delves into his boxes of cassettes and brings us music from his journeys in Africa - including his encounters with the then-unknown Ali Farka Toure, and the vibrant music scene of the newly-independent Zimbabwe - plus Kitchen Sessions from Cajun musicians Eddie Lejeune and DL Menard, also American singing legends Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mrgj the Americas - 2020 Sunday Feature a session with the Jolly Boys in Jamaica, his encounter with street singer Ted Hawkins in Los Angeles, and his interview with Trinidadian calypso legend The Roaring Lion. Plus Kitchen Sessions with Cuban singer Celina Gonzales and SE Rogie from Sierra Leone https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mxt5 More Kershaw Tapes - 2021 Sunday Feature Ayub Ogada ; the Antioch Gospel group ; Cuarteto Iglesias ; Ballake Sissoko ; the Edale Bluegrass Festival ; Mark Knopfler & The Duolian String Pickers ; Lazy Lester ; DL Menard ; Eddie LeJeune ; Ken Smith https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vqjl Even more Kershaw Tapes - 2021 Sunday Feature Ali Farka Touré ; Mamou Cajun Band ; Phil Cunningham ; Gary Petersen ; Cuarteto Iglesias ; Celina Gonzales ; Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore ; Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians ; Steve Tilston. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vwq0 Folk Connections: Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail - 2016 Kershaw follows Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail through Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee, hearing some of the songs he collected in specially-recorded sessions with contemporary singers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yp4cv Auld Lang Syne - 2016 Soul Music 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. NB Only a small portion from musicians. It's mostly stories of love, sorrow, hope and joy, emotions that are especially heightened at this time of year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b085trlz Bellowhead - 2016 Mastertapes (the A-Side) Bellowhead talk to John Wilson about their 2010 album Hedonism. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06wctts (the B-Side) The audience asks the questions. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06wd266 Bert Janch Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists Joan meets Bert Jansch,,, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lrms9 Black Roots - 2022 Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens explores the history of African American roots music through the stories of forgotten black pioneers. 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? Three episodes - Frank Johnson, Joe Thompson and the fiddle in North Carolina - Arnold Shultz, the banjo and bluegrass in Kentucky - DeFord Bailey, the harmonica and country music in Nashville episodes page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017khr/episodes Blowing in the Wind: Dylan's Spiritual Journey - 2011 Radio 4 Emma Freud explores Bob Dylan's spiritual journey in music, from Negro Spirituals to the Old and New Testaments. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011c0s2 Bluegrass: Virtuoso music of Appalachia - 2022 The Forum 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. 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 BLUES The BBC page listing current weekly shows plus a few extra. Category : Jazz & Blues currently The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews When the Levee Breaks (about Memphis Minnie) Shades of Blue - Jimmy Carlyle (radio Scotland) - open this link in a browser - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-jazzandblues-blues Bob Dylan and Me - 2011 Archive on 4 Cerys Matthews ; Paul Morley ; Professor Christopher Ricks ; Eddi Reader ; Billy Bragg ; Michael McClure ; Natasha Morgan ; Marking the musician's 70th birthday on May 24th 2011. ,,, a series of essays, richly woven together with songs and archive interviews. Also featured in the programme will be a number of rare Bob Dylan interviews, many not broadcast on British radio before. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0118brp Bob Dylan - In So Many Words - 2016 The Documentary Marco Werman investigates Bob Dylan’s work, weighing the evidence on whether he’s a worthy Nobel Literature Prize winner. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04k2gcw Breton Blend live at the CCA in Glasgow - 2016 for BBC Music at Celtic Connections https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03gbpjd Brian Peters and Martin Carthy at Cecil Sharp House - 2016 Sunday Feature - Radio 3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03gnsv9 The Captain's Apprentice - 2012 Twenty Minutes Roy Palmer explores the history of the traditional song 'The Captain's Apprentice'. George Crabbe drew on it for his poem The Borough, which in turn influenced Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes. It's basic plot, of an apprentice being taken from the workhouse and fatally mistreated, is unchanged. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m2n8t David Attenborough - World Music Collector - 2016 David Attenborough reveals a side of himself that nobody knows, as a collector of music from all over the world. We hear the stories that surround it, and the music itself. One of David Attenborough's first projects was 'Alan Lomax - Song Hunter', a television series he produced in 1953-4. The famous collector of the blues and folk music of America gathered traditional musicians from all over Britain and Ireland and, for the first time, they appeared on television. David loved the music, the people and, inspired by Lomax, he became music collector himself. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0857wv1 Desert Island Discs ,,, Martin Carthy ,,, Peggy Seeger ,,, See the Mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=96174 Eliza and Martin Carthy - 2013 Mastertapes (A-Side) Eliza and her father Martin talk to John Wilson about their critically celebrated 2002 folk album, Anglicana. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02x7r7v (B-Side) Eliza and her father Martin respond to audience questions https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02x7t3t Eliza Carthy, Ruben Östlund, Brutalist Architecture - Oct 2022 Front Row - BBC Radio 4 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 – the way traditional music develops, and her own song-writing, and performs[Jacky Tar] live in the Front Row studio. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ddtj (~10 minute piece) skip to > 17:22 Euphemism and Eroticism in Scottish Gaelic Songs - 2016 New Generation Thinkers - Radio 3 Dr Peter Mackay takes us on a romp through the titillating, bawdy and sometimes downright filthy Scottish Gaelic songs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082k9db (first 23 minutes) Fiddles and Fiddle Tunes - 2021 The Listening Service - Radio 3 How did an English jig turn into a Virginian reel? And what do Bach’s violin sonatas have in common with folk tunes from Finland? In The Listening Service today Tom Service explores fiddles, fiddlers, and fiddle tunes from around the globe, looking at how they connect communities, reflecting the stories of migrants and musicians across time, and staying true to tradition whilst continually changing. And how have classical composers incorporated fiddle tunes into their work? ,,, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000y5vl The First LP in Ireland - 2012 Colum Sands presents the story of how, in 1947, the Irish Folklore Commission and the BBC established a scheme to seek out and record folk music and stories throughout Ireland. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666r Folk At Home \ At Home with ,,, - 2020\2021 The Essay Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and performances recorded by songwriters at home. Greg Russell ; Rachel Unthank ; Nathaniel Mann ; Owen Shiers ; Karine Polwart ; Fatoumata Diawara ; Chris Wood ; Lisa O'Neill ; Suhail Yusuf Khan ; Eliza Carthy ; Kate Stables ; Tenzin Choegyal ; Lizabett Russo ; Falle Nioke ; Peter Broderick ; Sam Lee ; Stick In The Wheel ; Germa Adan ; Julie Fowlis ; Nancy Kerr ; https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000j2qz/episodes/player Folk Connections - Folk on 3 This page has a few programmes already listed but also some clips for Leveret, Phil Jamison & Dom Flemons from 2016. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03fh25d Folk Connections; Chabrier - 2016 Music Matters Tom Service presents a portrait of the composer Emmanuel Chabrier and, as part of Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend, discusses the appropriation of folk tunes in classical music. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yjdp0 The Folk of the Pennines - 2015 To celebrate 50 years of the Pennine Way, Mark Radcliffe travels the route from Derbyshire to Scotland and meets up with poets, folk musicians, historians and local people along the way - Edale to Top Withens - Malham to Greenhead - Greenhead to Kirk Yetholm https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05twn6f/episodes/guide Folk on 4 A selection of programmes relating to folk music from the Radio 4 archives. There might be something here that I've not already listed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01s8tff Folk sessions from World on 3 A selection of the many folk artists who have performed in session for us,,, The East Pointers ; Lynched ; Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn ; Karen Matheson ; Andrew Duhon The Hot Seats ; Julie Fowlis ; Sam Lee ; Pharis & Jason Romero ; Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker ; Söndörgo ; Ewan McLennan ; Adam Holmes ; Nancy Kerr ; Sam Lewis ; Philip Henry & Hannah Martin ; Martin and Eliza Carthy ; Gloaming ; Mischa Macpherson Trio ; April Verch ; Capercaille ; Man's Ruin ; James Duncan Mackenzie ; Wagon Tales ; The Young Uns ; Spider John Koerner ; Loudon Wainwright III ; Nordic Fiddlers Block ; Bella Hardy ; Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino ; The Old Tire Swingers ; Nuala Kennedy ; Karine Polwart ; Session A9; Jake Cogan ; The Voice Squad ; https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dxhw9 Folk Song, Art Song - 2012 Christopher Maltman talks to folk singer Eliza Carthy and scholars Georgina Boyes and Tim Healey about the uneasy relationship between the two musical worlds. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gg7dm Great Lives Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. See the Mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171905 Hallelujah - 2015 Soul Music We hear from those whose relationship with the song is deep and profound. Singer Brandi Carlisle listened to it over and over again as a troubled teenager; it became a soundtrack to James Talerico falling in love and Jim Kullander made a connection with the song after the death of his wife. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qgcgv How Folk Songs Should Be Sung - 2012 MacColl tutored select artists "to sing folk songs the way they should be sung" and to think about the origins of what they were singing. 40 years on, the tapes have come to light. Former group members Peggy Seeger, Sandra Kerr, Frankie Armstrong, Richard Snell, Brian Pearson and Phil Colclough recount six frantic years of rehearsing, performing and criticising each other. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018wy4j In Search of Nic Jones - 2013 Laura Barton tracks down the legendary lost figure of folk music, Nic Jones. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037t1rk Island Records - 2022 The Reunion The founder of legendary record label Island Records, Chris Blackwell, is reunited with some of the legends of Jamaican music. 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. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001brhq Leonard Cohen See the Mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=130855 Like Blackpool Went Through Rock - 2008 The Archive Hour Sean Street recalls the Radio Ballads, a series which began in 1958, mixing original voices and sounds with specially composed music to document ordinary people's lives. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c4fmk Lucie Skeaping on Thomas Ravenscroft - 2015 The Essay the Elizabethan Thomas Ravenscroft, a contemporary of Shakespeare who wrote songs that became incredibly popular - or, like Shakespeare, borrowed from the popular imagination and made it his own. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03y3fhl The Luddite Lament - 2011 John Tams looks back at the machine breakers of the 19th century, the Luddites, through the songs they inspired. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0112y4d The Malawi tapes - 2019 The Documentary Podcast A race is on to save thousands of tapes of traditional Malawian music in danger of disintegrating in the archives of state broadcaster, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation. The old reel-to-reel tapes date back to the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s and were recorded in towns and villages all over Malawi and in the MBC studios. The folk songs, traditional chants, dances and contemporary music of the time all provide a snapshot of Malawi’s social and musical history. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07vs8tg The Manchester Ballads - 2015 Folk singer Eliza Carthy visits Chetham's Library in Manchester to find out about 19th-century broadside ballads, and to see if she can find a new song to perform. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06fkm2g Martin and Eliza Carthy's live session for World on 3 - 2014 Sunday Feature - Radio 3 Queen Caribou, Waking Dreams, Happiness, Monkey Hair, Died for Love https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021gtdm Mastertapes John Wilson talks with musicians about a career-defining album. Some particular programmes (Shirley Collins\Carthys\,,,) are listed already but there are 100+ programmes (30+ artists) so have a search for more here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b021mjc4/episodes/player - & podcasts, 3 pages https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b021mjc4/episodes/downloads [I'm not sure if these are exactly the same programmes or edits\unedited] Michael Morpurgo's Folk Journeys - 2020 With help from singers, songwriters and other passionate experts, Michael admires the indelible stories within classic songs that deal with migration, war, protest and love. four episodes - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye - Four Loom Weaver - Ten Thousand Miles - Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nllb/episodes/player Modern Day Griot - 2012 Traditionally griots belong to particular West African families who act as oral historians, advisors, story-tellers and musicians for their culture. Now a generation of artists living in the West, who have African roots, are learning musical techniques from the masters but creating songs and stories with contemporary relevance. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jhb34 My stolen ‘magic’ guitar - 2022 Outlook - World Service Randy Bachman's guitar was stolen and disappeared without a trace. He spent years desperately trying to track it down. Almost half a century later, an amateur sleuth - bored during the coronavirus lockdown - decided to take on the hunt and crack the mystery. Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Maryam Maruf https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0brgsb5 More from Celtic Connections 2016 Celtic Connections - links page Though the 2016 complete episodes aren't available there are many clips of up to 20 minutes. If the link takes you to a programme click 'Listen to ,,,' https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039tgwn Music and musicians The Forum Why does the world sound like it does? Bluegrass ; Electric Guitars ; History Of The Ukulele ; Azerbaijan ; Paul Robeson ; Tango ; Hazel Scott ; Fado ; Talking Drums ,,, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07tr5f9 Music Planet Radio 3 The best roots-based music from across the world - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent, classic tracks and new releases. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ymx3v/episodes/guide Music Planet: Road Trip Join local experts for a sonic journey around the globe. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrw3w/episodes/player Nick Drake - Unsung - 1997 Kaleidoscope John Wilson explores the troubled life and the controversial death of singer-songwriter Nick Drake with the help of those closest to him, including his sister Gabrielle, producer Joe Boyd and his friend Robert Kirby. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039g8pk Peggy Seeger - 2022 Stark Talk Edi Stark meets the extraordinary folk legend, Peggy Seeger. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dfc2 Private Passions Radio 3 Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives. Bella Hardy - 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000d5c Shirley Collins - 2016 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yjk03 The series : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3 Radio 4 On Music BBC selection From Armstrong to Zappa - music documentaries from the Radio 4 archive. Thirty or more programmes ,,, worth a look if you're interested in more than folk,,, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01f50fb The Radio Ballads - 2010 In specially commissioned songs to mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the miners' strike, Radio 2 explores how lives were changed by the year-long dispute (1984-85). The Ballad of the Miners' Strike is a forthright and powerful exploration of contrasting human experiences. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r33b2 Ralph Vaughan Williams - August 2022 Front Row - BBC Radio 4 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. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bktc The Real MacColl - 2015 A century on from his birth, 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. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ykk4y Return to Brigg Fair - 2017 Between the Ears Musician Jim Moray bends sound and time to recreate the circumstances surrounding a chance encounter between the composer Percy Grainger and elderly farm bailiff Joseph Taylor which marked a major turning point in the history of traditional folk music. This programme follows Jim Moray as he experiments with technology to recreate that moment; bringing the voice of Joseph Taylor and the Delius orchestral work back together for the first time in over 100 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yjfgg Rosie Hood - December 2015 Front Row - BBC Radio 4 songs inspired by Wiltshire - 8 minutes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03c7t71 Saturday Classics - Kathryn Tickell - 2016 Northumbrian piper and fiddler Kathryn Tickell chooses some of her favourite classical pieces inspired by folk music. Episode 1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06xwcdx Episode 2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yjdp2 Scarborough Fair - 2015 Soul Music "It can change or stay the same. And the more it changes, the more it stays the same" - Martin Carthy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05stg0l Seriously Soulful Moving stories of magical musicians - from the fifth Beatle to the first lady of jazz. 'Sweet Mother KD' is already listed further below but search for more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02vdt9v Shetland Festival 2013 World Routes episode 1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0262859 episode 2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02x939q Shirley Collins (A-side) Mastertapes John Wilson returns with another edition of Mastertapes, the series in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088f9zq Shirley Collins (B-side) Shirley Collins responds to questions from the audience and performs acoustic live versions of songs from her new album, the first she has released in 38 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088fg44 Shirley Collins - Love, Death And The Lady 2017 Shirley Collins began the 1970s releasing what is now regarded by many as one of her finest albums... and she ended the decade by losing her singing voice through dysphonia. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. This seems to be an edited amalgamation of the other two programmes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04pd0kd Sing Christmas - 2004 Archive on 4 Christmas Day 1957; the BBC made a ground-breaking hour-long live broadcast, transmitting Christmas songs from around the British Isles. Texan folklorist and broadcaster Alan Lomax was the host. ,,,ancient carols, folk songs, calypso, West African music, dixieland, skiffle, children's carols and glees. This musical time capsule gathers the memories of those involved to recapture the flavour of this pioneering BBC broadcast. Producer: Jolyon Jenkins https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076ppm Singing Together - 2014 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. 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. 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 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04stc6c + accompanying page Singing Together: The radio show that got schoolchildren singing 28 November 2014 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30210485 Singing with the Nightingales - 2014 Sounds of Life To celebrate the 90th anniversary of this remarkable musical event, the folk musician Sam Lee finds, somewhere in southern England, "some melodious plot/ Of beechen green, and shadows numberless", as Keats puts it in his 'Ode to a Nightingale', and himself sings "of summer with full throated ease". Sam, with the cellist Francesca Ter-Berg, violinist Flora Curzon and viola player Laurel Pardue, sings songs that feature nightingales, such as 'The Tan Yard Side', to the nightingales as they sing in the thickets. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044m17b series page https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02jrr26 Soul Music A series about pieces of music which have had a powerful emotional impact on people. NB the people and the emotions are the focus in this series. 'Scarborough Fair' is listed above but search for more here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008mj7p/episodes Sounds of Life Radio 4 'PM' not music but fascinating: A pocketful of captivating sounds collected from science, nature and everyday life. Sadly "the sound of me and my two fellow Earlsdon Morris Men walking home in our clogs last Saturday night…" isn't available but follow the link for more great sound clips from PM. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02jrr26 Southern Journeys - 2002 Archive on 4 During Alan Lomax 's 1959 tour of the southern states, he was accompanied by his then lover, English folk singer Shirley Collins , and here she tells the story of how he recorded the sounds of a world that was fast disappearing, but which still influences popular music today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039g8px The Story of Township Music - 2003 The Archive Hour Johannesburg-based journalist Ofeibea Quist-Arcton looks at how music thrived alongside events such as the Sharpeville massacre, the Bantu Education Act, the Soweto Riots of 1976 and, of course, the fall of apartheid. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039g8pv Sweet Mother KD - 2016 Seriously Soulful Laura Barton sorts through myth and misdirection to tell the story of Karen Dalton, the folk world's answer to Billie Holiday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07pgvjn The Weavers at Carnegie Hall - 2012 For One Night Only Paul Gambaccini relives Christmas Eve 1955 and the Weavers sell-out reunion concert, 3 years after Pete Seeger's blacklisting for communist sympathies had forced them to break up. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n95x5 The True Story of Abner Jay - 2015 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. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yftl1 The Turtle Dove Pilgrimage - 2019 Folk singer Sam Lee and William Parsons of the British Pilgrimage Trust, lead 11 pilgrims on a journey across Sussex tracing the origins of the iconic folk song ‘The Turtle Dove’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00035zf Wassail! Wassail! - 2022 The Food Programme 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. Contributors: The Drayton village wassailers. Gerard Tucker, wassail master of ceremonies. Nell Leyshon (novelist and dramatist, play: Folk). James Crowden, author, Cider Country: How an Ancient Craft Became a Way of Life. Music: Drayton Wassail (as documented by Cecil Sharp in 1903) Tam Lin, Fairport Convention (1968) Bruton Town, Pentangle (1968) Produced and presented by Dan Saladino. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013yzx Women and Folk Music - 2022 Woman's Hour Emma is joined by: Peggy Seeger ; Fay Hield ; Anne Martin ; Amy Hollinrake ; Rachel Newton ; Grace Petrie ; Angeline Morrison. From protest songs and feminist anthems - it's not all whimsy in the world of folk. 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? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016x8c World Routes Already listed above are some individual western world programmes from the World Routes series ('An Appalachian Journey' & 'Shetland Festival 2013') - but there are many many more(130+) World Music programmes on the series page : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnmp/episodes/player or nearly 200 of the programmes plus shorter clips here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00crxs7 the World on 3 Clips page (from 3 minutes to 40 minutes) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009vs65/clips Find specific countries with the Music Planet World Music Archive index https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1QYgDsWdg6pfC7gSf3VCSD7/world-music-archive BBC collection pages Category : World - radio Current shows; a wide interpretation of 'world' plus a few extra programmes. - open in a browser - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-world Genre : music : World - radio & TV https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/music/world/player But keep searching! The BBC has obscure one-off programmes which don't happen to be in the series or listed under the genre. e.g. Big Drums on Little Carriacou - 2018 Radio 4 Extra’s Global Adventures Zakia Sewell returns to her grandparents’ home to explore a dance ritual with West African slavery era origins. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b50kx5 or Qawwali: Music of the soul Heart and Soul - 2022 Heart and Soul Raees Khan explores the history, influence and enduring legacy of Qawwali music, both within, as well as outside of the Islamic World. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4239 World Service Music Documentaries All the BBC World Service music podcasts gathered into one place. Only available in the UK. About forty programmes from 'Aretha Franklin: Queen Of Soul' to 'Yevgeny Murzin: Master of the Synthesiser'. Very few I'd call folk but some fascinating subjects. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrwqn/episodes/downloads Weekly/Monthly/Seasonal programmes Category : Folk Regular shows (likely to change) and old series which might episodes available Ambell i Gân (Cymru) A' Mire ri Mòir (Nan Gàidheal) Caithream Ciùil (Nan Gàidhea Catgut and Ivory (Scotland) Celtic Heartbeat (Wales) Claire and Friends (Scotland\Shetland) Crùnluath (Nan Gàidheal) Fae Hameaboot (Scotland) Folk Club with Lynette Fay (Ulster) Genevieve Tudor's Sunday Folk (Shropshire) Georgia Ruth (Cymru) * Iain Anderson Music Planet Oota Da Cans (winter only) (Scotland) Pipeline (Scotland) Pipes and Drums (Scotland) Roddy Hart (Scotland) Saltfish Sessions (Scotland\Orkney) Shetland Folk Festival (Scotland) Sruth na Maoile (Nan Gàidheal 2019) Take the Floor - Gary Innes (Scotland) The Folk Show (Cambridgeshire) The Folk Show With Mark Radcliffe (r2) Tim Walker's Folk (Lincolnshire) Tiompan (Nan Gàidheal) Trad Ar Fad! (Ulster) Travelling Folk (Scotland) What's the Craic - Irish music scene (Scotland\Orkney) - open the link in a browser, not the 'Sounds' app - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk *Missing from the page link above Iain Anderson (country, folk, blues and soul) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074hkv/episodes/player And some other BBC pages which give similar results but include TV. Genre : Folk https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/music/folk/player Search : Folk This gives 20+ pages of radio and TV. It isn't sortable & doesn't indicate which pages have available programmes. It's useful to see what the BBC has broadcast in the past. https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Folk |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: FreddyHeadey Date: 23 Dec 22 - 08:07 PM Louie Hooper sings Lord Rendall - 2022 Past Forward: A Century of Sound With his guests, the playwright Nell Leyshon and Tom Gray from the band Gomez, Greg [Jenner] explores the idea of musical ownership and how musicians are remunerated today. [spotify] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015l0l |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: FreddyHeadey Date: 29 Jan 23 - 10:59 AM a few more Between tradition and evolution in Scotland - 2021 Music Matters Kate Molleson presents a special episode of Music Matters which explores the line between tradition and innovation in Scotland's musical life. 12:20 We hear from the Canadian piper, composer and arranger Jack Lee, winner of the 2021 Glenfiddich Piping Championship held at Blair Castle, as he reflects on the challenges of preparing for what is the world’s premiere piping competition; we speak to competition’s judge of the Fear an Tighe category – Bob Worrall – about the boundaries and creative possibilities of music making and attire; and the piper, performer, and BBC Scotland presenter Gary West discusses, amongst other things, why the competition had no women finalists this year. 24:10 As the School of Scottish Studies Archives celebrates its 70th year, Kate is joined by the singers Steve Byrne and Julie Fowlis, and the Scottish writer, folklorist, ethnologist, broadcaster, and singer Margaret Bennett, to assess the archive’s role in the preservation and expansion of Gaelic and Scots culture today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011kr9 Christmas in the Fens - 2018 Music Matters Kate Molleson ; a look at folk music in the region, including 13:20 a songwriting masterclass with Boo Hewerdine; and 22:25 a discussion of Morris music with accordionist Martin Green. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001psl Contains Strong Language - 2021 Music Matters 3:50 Kate Molleson talking to Martin Carthy & 42:20 MC singing Willie's Lady https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001018l Craft and Traditions - 2017 Music Matters 1:40 Sara investigates the state of early music instrument building in the UK, amid concerns from some of today's makers about a missing generation of traditional craftspeople. With harpsichord builder Andrew Wooderson, maker of viols Shem Mackey, and Richard Earle, a player and maker of baroque oboes. 15:10 ,,, exploring dialects and languages around the British Isles and how they influence music-making, Sara talks to the English folklore expert Steve Roud, and 21:10 finds out about songs in the Scots language from singer Steve Byrne. 33:35 Sara visits the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery,,, Jumana Manna and Haig Aivazian, introduce their work and share their passion for exploring oriental music. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jbwhl 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 Folklore and Ghost Stories in Northumberland - 2019 Open Country Jez Lowe ,,, the slightly sinister song and story of Northumberland. Rachel Unthank ,,, the traditional song that depicts maidens turned into serpents and cruel sisters. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009t5d Folk on the Hills - 2023 Open Country Jez Lowe ,,, 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 Kate Griffin, Ford Collier, Johnny Campbell and Bella Hardy to hear how a new generation of musicians are continuing MacColl’s legacy of folk singers fighting for our rights in the countryside. ,,,and writer Roly Smith who can explain the history of Kinder and the 1932 mass trespass. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gl6x Ivor Cutler at 90 - 2013 Archive on 4 "I have a harmonium and it's going to explode in two minutes." Celebrating the deceptively quiet wordsmith. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt Kitty Macfarlane and the Somerset Levels - 2020 Open Country Singer-songwriter Kitty Macfarlane explores how the landscape of the Somerset levels has inspired some of her music, from clouds to curlew, bitterns to eels. ,,,, there are exclusive live versions of Kitty's tracks 'Starling Song', 'Lamb' and 'Glass Eel'. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q3qd Michael Gove, The Full English, Forbidden Music - 2013 Music Matters 18:05 the Full English - a new digital archive of folk music https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02x91m1 Music and Activism - 2021 Music Matters 18:00 Folk singer Martin Carthy and former High Court judge and part-time song collector Stephen Sedley join Tom to talk about their new book, ‘Who Killed Cock Robin: British Folk Songs of Crime and Punishment’, which explores the legal and moral basis of some of the most moving songs in the folk traditions of the country. We hear recordings by Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins, Rachel Newton and a 1953 archive recording of Ewan MacColl singing ‘McCaffery’, provided by the School of Scottish Studies Archives. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zs8v Music and Language in the South East - 2018 Music Matters Presented by Kate Molleson Kate is in the South East to meet the Kent-based folk singer Chris Wood, and explores how the region's English-speaking Romany communities are exchanging words and songs with European Roma migrants. 25:40 intro & Chris Wood interview(mainly speech with some musical references and snatches) 36:10 Romany people in the southeast(mainly speech, occasional song) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tn195 (mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=163722) Music in Hull - 2017 Music Matters Tom Service explores music-making in Hull. 21:30 At the house of local folk luminary Mick McGarry, he meets members of Folk in Hull for an evening of free-flowing conversation, whisky and song, hearing about Hull's thriving music-making scene, and how songs are being written about past and present, from the city's historical whaling industry to today's politics. 31:20 song 'The Luckiest Sailor' 33:45 And the folk adventurer Sam Lee, who along with fellow composer Jack Durtnall is turning stories from Hull's seafaring communities into Hullucination, a new piece for the New Music Biennial, part of this year's UK City of Culture celebrations. Tom meets Sam and Jack, along with one of Hull's ex-fishing vessel skippers Ken Knox, at the Trinity House Academy, a secondary school with strong maritime connections. 42:20 song, Mark Pollard & Sam Martin https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ljh63 Music in Northern Ireland - 2022 Music Matters - Radio 3 - 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 Paul Brady - 2022 Irish Music Icons - Radio Ulster Paul Brady joins Lynette Fay to reflect on his life, influence and legacy. - the complete interview as a video https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d823tg Philomena Begley - 2022 Irish Music Icons - Radio Ulster Philomena Begley joins Brian D'Arcy to reflect on her life, influence and legacy. - the complete interview as a video https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dq73s2 Songs of England - 2021 Open Country Singer Sam Lee has paired folk songs with some of English Heritage's greatest sites. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v2x0 St Just in Midwinter - 2022 Open Country 8:15 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. Helen meets Graham Jobbins, Mary Ann Bloomfield and Isobel Bloomfield, the family playing a central part in ensuring the tradition continues. 19:15 local Carols https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9gz The Thames, Folk Songs & Xenakis - 2012 Music Matters Suzy Klein talks to 15:25 Steve Roud & Julia Bishop about The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs & 21:50 Sam Lee and Dave Arthur about the original Penguin book and AL Lloyd. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jg75m Tribute to Charles Rosen; Mummers plays - 2012 Music Matters 20:40 Suzy Klein explores the world of mummers plays with Steve Roud & Peter Millington https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p9cqd Tynemouth Sea and Song - 2018 Open Country Folk singer Jez Lowe uncovers the traditions of seafaring and song in Tynemouth and North Shields. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b8b7rg |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 29 Jan 23 - 05:30 PM I wasn't sure if they were available outside UK, so I clicked on Jez's 2018 link & heard the first few notes, I'll pass on the details & listen later when I have more time. |
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