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Subject: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 02 Dec 24 - 05:54 PM Regular BBC pages to check : BBC Category : Folk Here's the BBC page which gives links to the current Weekly, Monthly & Seasonal radio programmes. (There are also a few one-offs on the page.) Ambell i Gân (Cymru) A' Mire ri Mòir (Nan Gàidheal) * Blas Ceoil - (Radio Ulster) 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 Neil Martin (Ulster) Georgia Ruth (Cymru) * Iain Anderson (r2) Music Planet (r3) Oota Da Cans (winter only) (Scotland) Orkney Folk Music with Jennifer Wrigley (Scotland\Orkney) Orkney Irish Country \What's the Craic with Colin Kirkness (Scotland\Orkney) Orkney Scottish Dance Music with Liam Muir\Dashing White Farmer (Scotland\Orkney) Pipeline \Pipes and Drums (Scotland) The Piping Season (Scotland) Piping Sounds (Scotland) Roddy Hart (Scotland) Saltfish Sessions (Scotland\Orkney) Take the Floor - Gary Innes (Scotland) The Folk Show With Mark Radcliffe (r2) Tim Walker's Folk (Lincolnshire) Tiompan (Nan Gàidheal) Trad Ar Fad! (Ulster) Travelling Folk (Scotland) - NB open this link in a browser; don't just click the link or it will try to open your 'Sounds' app and this doesn't provide the same information as the web page - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk?sort=title [not blickified, on purpose] *Two regular programmes missing from the page above : Iain Anderson (country, folk, blues and soul) - Radio2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074hkv/episodes Blas Ceoil - Radio Ulster ,,,new releases, gig guide details and live acoustic sessions to keep. (in Gaelic; quite a lot of chat) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cmsk6/episodes & check the 'clips' tab for more. Available For Over A Year There is a separate mudcat thread listing BBC radio programmes 'available for over a year'. mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171922 search : Folk Also of interest might be this search page which gives 20+ pages of radio and TV. But it isn't sortable, doesn't indicate which pages have available programmes. ,,, & includes news items e.g. about Folkstone! It's useful to see what the BBC has broadcast in the past though. www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Folk Category : World - radio Current shows; it's a wide interpretation of 'world' plus a few extra programmes. - open in a browser - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-world?sort=title Genre : music : World - radio & TV www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/music/world/player There are filters for Africa Americas Asia Pacific Cross Cultural Europe Experimental & New Middle East & Africa |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 16 Dec 24 - 04:22 PM BBC Radio2 21:00 Wednesday 08 January 2025 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Shaun Keaveny sits in The best in folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond. BBC Radio2 21:00 Wednesday 15 January 2025 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe The best in folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 01 Jan 25 - 06:44 AM BBC Radio nan Gàidheal Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2024. 29 days left to listen Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2024 beò à Ionad Coimhearsnachd is Ealain Inbhir Narann air a lìbhrigeadh le Cathy NicDhòmhnaill agus Niall Iain Dòmhnallach. Tha aoigheachd, ceòl is plòigh ann am pailteas a’ feitheamh oirnn. Tha ’d a’ cur fàilte air Mànran, Alice Nic a’ Mhaoilein, Seonaidh Beag Mac a’ Mhaoilein , Calum Ailig Mac a’ Mhaoilein, Mairi Nic Ille Mhaoilein, Còisir Ghàidhlig Inbhir Narann agus Còmhlan Cèilidh Alba le Ingrid NicEunraig a’ stiùireadh a' chiùil. Cathy MacDonald and Niall Iain MacDonald bring in the New Year live from Nairn Community and Arts Centre. Music and dancing galore from Mànran, Alice MacMillan, Seonaidh Beag & Calum Alex MacMillan, Mairi MacMillan and Nairn Gaelic Choir plus the Alba Ceilidh Band, led by musical director Ingrid Henderson. Happy New Year! BBC Radio 2 9:00pm Wednesday 15 January BBC Folk Show Shaun Keaveny sits in and interviews actor Timothée Chalamet and director James Mangold about their film, A Complete Unknown, which explores Bob Dylan's famous pivot from folk figurehead to rock original. This special episode of the Folk Show also digs into Dylan's back catalogue, which remains a touchstone for folk songwriters. The new film explores Dylan's talents and flaws as he establishes himself as a musical icon in the early 1960s. Timothée plays Dylan and learned guitar to play the part. His co-stars include Edward Norton as Pete Seeger and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 01 Jan 25 - 07:11 AM https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01s8tff BBC Sounds Folk on 4; A selection of programmes relating to folk music from the Radio 4 archives. The Weavers, Pete Seeger, Bert Jansch, Martin Carthy and more. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 01 Jan 25 - 10:16 AM On Radio 4 Extra yesterday and available to listen to for the next 29 days Jazz Frenzy Released On: 16 Nov 2010 Available for 29 days Poland, August 1956. Rioters had been shot dead in Poznan weeks before. The invasion of Hungary is just weeks away. The Cold War rages but for eight young Londoners, newly formed as The Dave Burman Jazz Group, their unlikely journey behind the Iron Curtain is an overwhelming surprise. Jazz in Poland had been banned by first the Nazis and then the Communists, but had been played secretly by a faithful few. Until the death of Stalin in 1953, playing and listening to jazz was illegal. This 'decadent Imperialist music' could lead to expulsion from music college, blacklisting or worse. But in the 'thaw' that followed Stalin's death, the restrictions on jazz began to lift. Now, at the seaside resort of Sopot, tens of thousands of young people journeyed miles by hitching rides or cramming into trains to hear jazz and that rarest of attractions - a British band. The Dave Burman Jazz Group had been assembled in just a few weeks - it would never play together again. But for a few days the Cold War blew hot as they thumped out Tiger Rag, Bucket's Got a Hole in It, Sugar and other standards to crowds of thousands all over the country. Their contact with Polish jazz lovers was minimal, frequently ushered by Communist officials during their hectic tour. But for those Polish musicians taking part in Sopot '56, this was the beginning of their Jazz Frenzy, of freedom. Dave Burman and the rest of the musicians returned to England never to experience such adulation and success again. Now, more than 50 years later, Dave is reunited with former band members Alan Teulon and Laurie Chescoe, before returning to Poland with his son and producer of the programme to meet some of those whose lives were changed forever by the events of Sopot '56. Producer and Presenter: Mark Burman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Re |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 03 Jan 25 - 06:22 AM repeat from February 2024 BBC Radio 3 Words and Music For love of Bagpuss 25 days to listen Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner provided the music for the series and you'll hear some of that alongside compositions by Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Hindemith, Florence Price, Ailbhe McDonagh and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w1sj |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 03 Jan 25 - 07:19 AM ^ oh, no cookie; that was me. related Bagpuss\Postgate prog Oliver Postgate - 2022 Free Thinking/Arts & Ideas The creator of much-loved children's TV classics including The Clangers, Bagpuss and Pogles' Wood is discussed by Matthew Sweet and his guests - how much of this political background can we find in the fantastical worlds that he created? There's also discussion of the music that plays such a major role in the programmes - the deep folk roots of the songs performed by Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner in Bagpuss and Vernon Elliot's sparse and poignant compositions for The Clangers, Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cyny skip to 14:45 for Sandra discussing the music |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 Jan 25 - 10:14 PM BBC World Service 02:06 GMT 5 January The Newsroom https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zbqq09b2nyv at approx 18 minutes Available for 29 days In early 2024, Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan returned to the Parchman Farm maximum security facility in the Mississippi to record a second collection of raw and haunting performances from the prison's Sunday gospel service. The results are once again captivating and unforgettable. Parchman Prison Prayer: Another Mississippi Sunday Morning download and CD releases January 17, 2025. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230913-hear-stunning-music-recorded-inside-mississippis-infamous-parchman-prison In 2023, award-winning producer Ian Brennan visited the notorious Mississippi State Penitentiary, aka Parchman Farm, to record inmates singing. Parchman Farm Prayer: Some Mississippi Sunday Morning features 14 performances recorded live in the chapel. Released September 15, 2023. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 07 Jan 25 - 03:57 PM BBC Radio 4 20:00 6 January The World Tonight at approx 28 minutes Available now Repeat of above! In early 2024, Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan returned to the Parchman Farm maximum security facility in the Mississippi to record a second collection of raw and haunting performances from the prison's Sunday gospel service. The results are once again captivating and unforgettable. Parchman Prison Prayer: Another Mississippi Sunday Morning download and CD releases January 17, 2025. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 13 Jan 25 - 11:35 AM On BBC Radio 4Extra this morning and available for the next 30 days Once in a Blue Moon: The Songs of Lal Waterson "Lal Waterson's voice was stark but captivating. It's been said that the songs she wrote were close to German cabaret or chanson. They were lyrically ambitious and melodically powerful. Since her death in 1998, her reputation has grown and now she is placed alongside the great singer song-writers like Nick Drake and Richard Thompson. She was a member of the famous Waterson family and numbered among other relatives the folk singer Martin Carthy and his daughter Eliza. Robin Denselow explores Lal's life and legacy - and assesses her impact on song-writers today. Producer: Emma Kingsley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 13 Jan 25 - 12:15 PM ^ Once in a Blue Moon: The Songs of Lal Waterson Well spotted Rain Dog. Did you hear/see trailers for this or scour the schedules or is it luck ? ;) Freddy |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 13 Jan 25 - 01:00 PM I listen to Radio 4 Extra quite a lot and heard a mention of this programme. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,CJB Date: 13 Jan 25 - 11:53 PM Pete Seeger not available… https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k2nkx |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 15 Jan 25 - 06:02 AM BBC Sounds; Folk music programmes broadcast so far in January 2025 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/music-folk Or just google - BBC Sounds folk music programmes If you google - BBC folk music programmes - you get TV shows too! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 15 Jan 25 - 07:21 AM On the radio yesterday Radio 4 50 years of the Koln Concert "Released On: 14 Jan 2025 Available for over a year Fifty years after Keith Jarrett performed the Koln Concert to a sellout crowd, Kevin le Gendre explores the enduring appeal of the biggest selling solo piano record of all time, and unpicks a new musical language born out of adversity. That night in January 1975 is full of stories - of Keith Jarrett's long journey, no food, poor sleep and arriving at the Cologne Opera House to find a broken piano. The concert was almost cancelled and the legendary recording beloved by millions nearly never happened. Yet could these problems be at the heart of the album's bewitching new sound world? Multi Grammy award winner, Jacob Collier, sits at the piano to unpick Jarrett's evocative harmonies that have captured millions of hearts far beyond the jazz world. Writer Geoff Dyer applauds Jarrett's gorgeous lyricism and discusses the momentous achievement of improvising live for over an hour, not knowing what the first note would be. British jazz pianists Nikki Yeoh and Django Bates reflect on Jarrett's influence and tell stories of gigs where limitations lead to magic. And pianist Maki Namekawa, who now performs a transcription of The Koln Concert, shares peoples' stories of why they love to listen in some unique circumstances. And in testament to the album's blockbuster success, we hear from a few of the many guests who have picked the Koln Concert on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Presenter: Kevin le Gendre Producer: Erika Wright Sound Mixing: Richard Courtice Production Coordinator: Elisabeth Tuohy Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar A TellTale Industries production for BBC Radio 4" On BBC Radio 4 Extra Field Notes: The Irishman Who Invented the Nocturne "Released On: 17 May 2016 Available for over a year Alistair McGowan travels to Dublin to explore the sensational life of his musical hero - the 19th century Irish pianist and composer John Field. Born in Dublin in 1782, Field was a child prodigy who left Ireland at an early age to become apprentice to the great Italian composer and piano maker Clementi. Clementi took Field on a tour of Europe and Russia, demonstrating his considerable talents and showcasing Clementi's pianos. Field was to live in Russia for the rest of his life and Russia welcomed Field with open arms - he became the darling of high society, as well as one of the most celebrated and influential pianists of his day. His playing and his invention of a new kind of piano piece, the nocturne, were to influence Chopin, Liszt, Schumann and Mendelssohn. Interviewees include pianists John O'Conor, Finnuala Moynihan, Finghin Collins and architectural historian Finola O'Kane. Produced by Emma Harding. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016." Field Notes: The Peregrinations of a Most Musical Irishman "Released On: 17 May 2016 Available for 29 days Alistair McGowan stars in his own drama about the prodigiously gifted - and prodigiously partying - John Field. John was the Irish composer and pianist who invented the nocturne. It's May 1832: John leaves his Moscow home to begin his first - and last - tour of Europe. He takes with him, the illegitimate teenage son he barely knows. John Field/Male Nurse ...... Alistair McGowan Leonov ...... Kieran Hodgson Mlle Charpentier/ Countess Shumova ...... Charlotte Page Oleg/ Italian doctor ...... Ewan Bailey Percherette/ Vera ...... Scarlett Brookes Count Shumov/ Highwayman 1 ...... Brian Protheroe Chopin/ Polish Concert Promoter ...... Rafael Ferenc Grace Field ...... Susan Jameson Clementi/ Mister Rikov ...... Sean Baker Highwayman 2/ French Theatre manager ...... Sargon Yelda Madame Rikov/ Mary ...... Adie Allen oncert Promoter ...... Nick Underwood Director: Emma Harding First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 16 Jan 25 - 04:13 AM BBC Radio 5 14 Jan 2025 22.30 Tony Livesey Available for 28 days Listeners share instructional songs after a theatre tells the audience they can't get up, stand up and dance to a Bob Marley tribute band. Folk legend Ralph McTell joins Tony (Part 1). Starts at 1 h 53 min. BBC Radio 5 15 Jan 2025 22.30 Tony Livesey Available for 29 days Folk legend Ralph McTell joins Tony (Part 2). Starts at 2h 12 min. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 21 Jan 25 - 07:19 AM On BBC Radio 4 Extra this morning. Available for a year Songs for the Dead "Songs for the Dead Released On: 16 Aug 2016 Available for over a year Keeners were the women of rural Ireland who were traditionally paid to cry, wail and sing over the bodies of the dead at funerals and wakes. Their role was to help channel the grief of the bereaved and they had an elevated, almost mythical status among their communities. The custom of keening had all but vanished by the 1950s as people began to view it as primitive, old-fashioned and uncivilised. Now - with emotions raw from her own recent experience of grief - broadcaster Marie-Louise Muir sets out to ask what’s been lost with the passing of the keeners. She travels to Inis Mor, a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, where one of Ireland’s last professional keeners - Brigid Mullin - was recorded by the song collector and archivist Sidney Robertson Cowell in the 1950s. Brigid's crackling, eerie evocation of sorrow echoes down the years to capture a tradition in its dying days - a ghostly remnant of another world. Dr Deirdre Ni Chonghaile is a native of Inis Mor and thinks modern funerals have taken on an almost Victorian dignity in a society that in general has become far less tolerant of extravagant displays of grief. Deirdre believes it was this very extravagance that helped lead to keening's demise. Its emphasis on the body and human mortality was in direct conflict with the notion of a Christian afterlife and the influential role of the keening women may even have been regarded as a threat to the patriarchy of the Church. As the story of the keeners blends with the waves and winds of Ireland's west coast, Marie-Louise reflects on the passing of this once rich tradition. Producer: Conor McKay First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016" I enjoyed the programme and found it very evocative. Both my parents were from the West of Ireland and my paternal grandmother was from Inis Mor. I remember my father telling me about keening which he heard in his childhood. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 21 Jan 25 - 02:36 PM Caught the end of this programme this afternoon on BBC Radio 4. Dreaming of Connie Converse "Poet Emily Berry explores the music and mystery of Connie Converse. Connie Converse was ahead of her time. She began writing songs on guitar in New York City in 1949. She wrote of loneliness and rebellion, of ambition, judgement and desire -- in a manner rarely heard from women at that time: witty yet melancholy, defiant but ethereal. Sitting somewhere between George Gershwin and Joni Mitchell, Connie Converse was a singer-songwriter before that phrase had currency. There was no one else like her. Perhaps that's why she never really found an audience. She left New York City in 1961, moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan and gave up writing songs. And then she disappeared. At least, that's the way the story is often told. In 1974 Connie Converse wrote letters to friends and family suggesting that she was leaving Ann Arbor to start afresh elsewhere. She drove away in her Volkswagen Beetle and was never heard from again. There were apparent sightings over the years. A private investigator was no help. Her car was never found. Almost everything we know about Connie Converse comes from a large filing cabinet, left behind at her brother's house after she drove away, but not thoroughly examined until his retirement many years later. It presents a carefully organised window onto Connie Converse's life: letters, pictures, essays, political activism, mementoes and recordings, all indexed and itemised. She wanted to disappear, but not without leaving a legacy. In the filing cabinet was an explanatory letter, which begins: "Let me go." Half a century later, many people can't let her go. Her songs of wit and vulnerability were out of time in the 1950s but have found a listenership today. She's a cult artist of the streaming era. Emily Berry dreams about Connie Converse in the company of biographer Howard Fishman, musician Emma-Lee Moss (formerly known as Emmy the Great) and poet Jack Underwood. Including extracts from an interview with Philip and Jean Converse by Dan Dzula and David Herman. Includes Playboy of the Western World performed by Margot, Jo Equality Lampert, and Emma-Lee Moss. Recorded live at the Hum, Manhattan Inn, Brooklyn 2016. And Trouble performed by Jack Underwood. Howard Fishman's biography of Connie Converse is called To Anyone Who Ever Asks: the Life, Music and Mystery of Connie Converse. With grateful thanks to Dan Dzula. Connie Converse photograph courtesy of the Musick Group / Heroic Cities LLC." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 Jan 25 - 02:38 PM BBC Radio 4 7:15 22 January Front Row Live music from Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart, who have collaborated with Mary Chapin Carpenter on a new album, Looking for the Thread. BBC Radio 2 21:00 22 January The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Looking For The Thread Mark catches up with a new transatlantic trio: Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart and Mary Chapin Carpenter. The group's album, Looking For The Thread, was recorded in the west Highlands. Plus a look towards next week's special Folk Show concert in Glasgow, and a blend of new releases, classic tracks and news from the folk world. BBC Radio 2 21:00 29 January The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Celtic Connections 2025 Mark Radcliffe heads to Glasgow's famous winter festival, Celtic Connections, to introduce performances by three acts. In front of an audience at the BBC's Pacific Quay studios, we're treated to performances by Eddi Reader, Villagers and Elephant Sessions. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 26 Jan 25 - 03:10 AM BBC Radio 6 10:00am Sunday 26 January 2025 Cerys Matthews A Joyous Exploration: Saltfishforty in Session Cerys celebrates Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival with a session from Orkney's Saltfishforty. Known for their high-octane mix of traditional, contemporary and original tunes, Saltfishforty are fiddle player Douglas Montgomery and guitarist and Mandola player Brian Cromarty. The duo are based on the Scottish island of Orkney and have been playing together for over twenty years. Plus Cynefin calls in ahead his new album Shimli. Cynefin aka Owen Shiers is a Welsh folk singer, researcher, grain grower and cultural historian. His new album Shimli takes it's name from the now obsolete West Walian practice of all night musical and poetic vigils which would take place in mills and workshops. Plus Cerys celebrates the 25th anniversary of D'Angelo's Voodoo and shares her new music discoveries and the classic gems she unearths. BBC Radio 6 10:00am Sunday 2 February A Joyous Exploration: Bonnie Prince Billy Cerys Matthews. Cerys curates an eclectic Sunday soundtrack and catches up with Louisville-based singer-songwriter, Bonnie Prince Billy about his latest album, The Purple Bird. Also known as Will Oldham, the musician. whose careers spans over 30 years, speaks about the making of the project, working alongside producer David “Ferg” Ferguson and shares some of his favourite records from his collection. Expect a mix of funk, jazz, blues, folk and beats from around the globe, blending genres and crossing borders. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 26 Jan 25 - 03:50 AM BBC Radio Scotland 15:30 Monday 20 January The Arts Mix Len Pennie and Michelle McManus with a Celtic Connections special 25 days left to listen A special extended edition of The Arts Mix, co-hosted by Len Pennie and Michelle McManus, broadcast in front of an audience from the Pacific Quay foyer, and featuring live music from artists performing at Celtic Connections. Len and Michelle are joined by singer Beth Malcolm, whose album Folkmosis weaves together music and spoken word. Jazz singer Georgia Cecile performs live. And composer and violinist Catriona Price talks about working with musicians from Argentina, Mexico and Chile for her musical cultural exchange project Routes to Roots ahead of a Celtic Connections gig next week. 15:30 Wednesday 22 January The Arts Mix A Celtic Connections special with Kim Carnie and Rhona Macfarlane 26 days left to listen Continuing The Arts Mix specials for Celtic Connections, recorded at the BBC in Glasgow with a live audience. Len has music from Rhona Macfarlane, showcasing her debut album, As the Chaos Unfolds. And singer Kim Carnie tells Len about her documentary, Kim Carnie Out Loud, exploring the challenges faced by people hiding their sexuality, including her own experience of hiding a same-sex relationship for six years. 15:30 Thursday 23 January The Arts Mix Celtic Connections with Ainsley Hamill and Gary West 27 days left to listen In the last of The Arts Mix specials to celebrate Celtic Connections, Len Pennie is joined by singer Ainsley Hamill, who performs music from her new album Fable; and piper Gary West, who has written Brave New Music: The Martyn Bennett Story, tracing the life of the pioneering folk musician. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 26 Jan 25 - 04:03 AM BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk is back at Celtic Connections, bringing to the stage another night of top class music. 20:00 23 January Thursday 27 days left to listen This year, Anna is joined by Ross Ainslie and the Sanctuary Band, with music from his brand new album Pool. Julie Fowlis, Eamon Doorley, Zoe Conway and John McIntyre play music from their new album Allt Vol. II: Cuimhne - a collection of newly composed settings of Irish and Scottish Gaelic poems and tunes. And finally, all the way from Prince Edward Island in Canada, The East Pointers complete the line-up for what is sure to be an incredible night of music! 20:00 Thursday 30 January Anna is live from BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow, featuring live music from Jenn Butterworth and Adam Sutherland. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 26 Jan 25 - 02:42 PM BBC Radio 3 21:30 Saturday 01 February 2025 Celtic Connections Music Planet Kathryn Tickell with the best in roots-based music from across the world, and a special focus on Glasgow’s kaleidoscopic wintertime celebrations of local and global folk music at Celtic Connections. BBC Radio 3 21:30 Saturday 08 February 2025 Love songs: Luzmira Zerpa in session Music Planet In the run up to Valentine’s Day, Lopa Kothari picks love songs from across the world and is joined in the studio by Venezuelan singer Luzmira Zerpa for a special session. BBC Radio 3 21:30 Saturday 15 February 2025 Global Encounters session: Qais Essar and Dasom Baek Music Planet Kathryn Tickell shares the results of our inaugural Global Encounters session, between Afghan-American rabab player Qais Essar and Korean bamboo flute specialist Dasom Baek. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Big Al Whittle Date: 26 Jan 25 - 06:19 PM My sister has told me about a show she has heard advertised about Robert Louis Stevenson and WE Henley, but though I've searched the schedules I can't see it. Anybody else know of it? |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 27 Jan 25 - 08:15 AM Stevenson/WE Henley,,, I can only see this one but don't see it in the current schedules. Reconstructing Louis - 2016 At Vailima - his home in Western Samoa - Robert Louis Stevenson attempts to dispel some of the more romantic notions that have built up around him as he looks back over his life and the people who have meant most to him. These include his American wife Fanny, his stepson Lloyd, and the waspish literary critic WE Henley, now best remembered as the model for Treasure Island's most enduring character - Long John Silver. Written by John Sessions who stars as Robert Louis Stevenson. Fanny ... Phyllis Logan Thomas Stevenson.... Paul Young Maggie Stevenson .... Sheila Donald Belle Osbourne.... Nora Elwell-Sutton Lloyd Osbourne/Bob Stevenson...... Henry Ian Cuslck Young Louis/Young Lloyd .... James Quintal-Norrls WE Henley .... Michael MacKenzie www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0075z1g |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 27 Jan 25 - 09:15 AM Good story; couple of bits of singing : Tam O'Shanter. Towards the end of his life, on a farm in Dumfries, Robert Burns begins to write a poem that will become one of his famous works. Published in 1791, Tam O'Shanter describes the wayward exploits of a farmer which puts his very soul in peril. Starring Liam Brennan and Gerda Stevenson. Written by Catherine Czerkawska. Robert Burns .... Liam Brennan Jean Armour .... Gerda Stevenson Robbie/Helen MacTaggart .... Sheila Donald Tam O'Shanter/Duncan Graham .... Kern Falconer Willie Niven/Souter Johnnie .... Billy Boyd Anna .... Alyxis Daly Music played by Jo Miller, Steve Sutcliffe, Norman Chalmers and Mike Katz. Director: Hamish Wilson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1996. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027csp |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 27 Jan 25 - 01:31 PM Big Al Whittle, I think this is the programme your sister might be referring to: Silver by Jonathan Smith On BBC Radio 4 Extra 01.00 Sunday 2nd February "When WE Henley, the one-legged Gloucestershire poet and eccentric, visited Edinburgh for an operation in 1874, he struck up an immediate and robust friendship with the more effete novelist RL Stevenson. It was a friendship that was to survive many storms - including Stevenson's thinly disguised portrait of Henley as Long John Silver in ‘Treasure Island’. Starring Bill Paterson and John Franklyn-Robbin. Written by Jonathan Smith. Robert Louis Stevenson .... Bill Paterson W E Henley .... John Franklyn-Robbins Fanny .... Maureen O'Brien Katherine .... Joanne Mackie Joseph Lister .... Bill Wallis Leslie Stephen .... Peter Copley Sister .... Eva Stuart Nurse .... Marcia King Lloyd .... John Bolton Director: Shaun McLoughlin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1989." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 30 Jan 25 - 04:59 PM BBC Radio 2 21:00 Wednesday 5 February The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe The great Irish band Altan are live in the studio. Their latest album, Donegal, was released in 2024. Plus another chance to hear live music from last week's trip to Celtic Connections in Glasgow. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 04 Feb 25 - 04:07 AM On BBC Radio 4 Extra today at 10.30 Fantasy Festival - Eliza Carthy Folk musician Eliza Carthy joins presenter Verity Sharp to create and curate the festival of her wildest dreams. It's a chance for Eliza to set the festival's agenda, chose the guests, pick the acts, dictate the weather, the food and the ambience. It's a festival where anyone - dead or alive - can be summoned to perform, and nothing is unimaginable. Eliza outlines her dream festival which takes place at Robin Hood's Bay. Finnish folk musicians Värttinä, Italian folk group Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino and Dreadzone are on the bill alongside Freddie Mercury, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Joe Venuti, Professor Brian Cox and Abba. Everyone's there and everything's possible in Eliza's feel good festival. Producer: Rosie Boulton A Monty Funk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2016. |
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