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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Apr 25 - 04:45 AM BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends Clive Anderson is in Glasgow. 19 Apr 2025 Available for over a year With music from Skerryvore (13 minutes - You and I) and Mike McKenzie. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Apr 25 - 01:01 PM BBC plans to restrict BBC Sounds abroad have been delayed! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 18 Apr 25 - 09:01 AM Our Sacred Harp - April 2025 Heart and Soul - BBC World Service Sacred Harp pioneer and former punk frontman, Tim Eriksen, takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing – an American choral tradition experiencing a resurgence across the US and in Europe. All people and all faiths are welcome. As a new edition of the songbook approaches publication, Tim explores why this music is drawing more singers and how it’s managing to remain inclusive despite increasing political polarisation in the wider culture. Sacred Harp is sung a-cappella in four-part harmony - a non-performative music where everyone takes a turn to lead and groups gather anywhere from churches to community centers and pubs. Songs were first published in a book of psalms in Georgia in 1844 and in 2025 a new edition will publish a record number of compositions submitted by sacred harp singers from all over the world. For Tim Eriksen this is devotional music, but it will mean different things to different people - what’s special about it is the way it ‘transcends differences.’ Sociologist Laura Clawson tells us how the forbearers of the music stipulated that religion, and politics should not come into the ‘hollow square.’ Historically the Sacred Harp community has continued to sing and build bonds through chapters of political polarisation in the US. But how have recent political divides affected the community and how can it continue to remain an inclusive space? Producer: Sarah Cuddon A Falling Tree Production www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6vnp & see Shape Note or Sacred Harp thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=14533 FreddyHeadey |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 16 Apr 25 - 06:06 PM Thanks henryp. I found this link worked better for the 1hr 40 min Ruth Crawford Seeger programme. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0kxwx88 Music Featured: Little Waltz Five Songs to Poems by Carl Sandburg (1, Home Thoughts; 2, White Moon) Theme and Variations Selection from American Folk Songs for Children Diaphonic Suite No 2 for bassoon and cello Kaleidoscopic Changes on an Original Theme, Ending with a Fugue Diaphonic Suite No 3 for Flute Whirligig Preludes for Piano Caprice Sonata for Violin and Piano Trad: Prisoner Blues Music for Small Orchestra Marion Bauer: Four Piano Pieces Selection from 19 American Folk Songs for piano Three Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg Diaphonic Suite No 4 for oboe and violoncello Three Chants for Female Chorus String Quartet Diaphonic Suite No 1 for oboe Selection from Animal Folk Songs for Children Preludes for Piano Two Ricercare to poems by Hsi Tseng Tsiang Peggy Seeger: How I Long For Peace Selection from American Folk Songs for Christmas Andante for strings Trad: "New River Train” Trad: "Midnight Special" Trad: "Irene (Goodnight, Irene)" Charles Seeger: John Hardy Piano Study in Mixed Accents Suite No 1, for five wind instruments and piano Elizabeth Cotten: "Freight Train" Rissolty, Rossolty Piano Sonata Diaphonic Suite for two clarinets Piano Study in Mixed Accents (Version 3) Suite for Wind Quintet Five Canons, for piano Peggy Seeger: "Everything Changes" For full information about each of the hour long episodes start at episode one. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028k1t |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 16 Apr 25 - 11:27 AM BBC Radio3 Composer of the Week Ruth Crawford Seeger Released On: 14 March 2025 Available for over a year Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) had multiple lives. As Ruth, she was an aspiring poet and teacher, who longed to become a mother. Crawford the composer wrote some of the most daring pages of 20th-century American music, granting her a place among the group of the 'Ultra-Modernists'. And, as the matriarch of the Seeger dynasty, she collected and arranged countless pieces from treasures of the folk tradition. With Kate Molleson, discover the extraordinary life and work of a major American composer, in a story of creative experimentations, of family bonds, and most of all, of joy in music-making, accompanied by the memories of Crawford's daughter and folk legend, Peggy Seeger. For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028k1v |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Apr 25 - 05:11 AM BBC Radio Scotland Shetland Folk Festival Preview Available for 5 days Eva Runciman hears from the visiting acts making the trip to Shetland in May for the 43rd Shetland Folk Festival. BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Thursday 20:00 Anna Massie with the very best of folk and roots music from Scotland and beyond. 17 April 2025 Martin Green and Miwa Nagato-Apthorp 24 April A Shetland Music Special 01 May 2025 Mountain Music Travelling Folk Deirdre Graham with the very best of folk and roots music from Scotland and beyond. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Date: 10 Apr 25 - 04:15 PM but as far as I can see, (and the BBC refuse to eplain what is happening or why) a very limited ENGLISH range of stations will still be available- NO Scotland, NO Wales, NO Ulster NO Newcastle- no Cornwall- no Kent just the view (and the music) prescribed by London- do tell nme if I've got this wrong- the BBC will not |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 10 Apr 25 - 08:26 AM Why are some radio programmes and podcasts not available? Due to rights limitations, not all BBC content can be made available to international users. This includes BBC music radio stations as well as some podcasts. We endeavour to provide a comprehensive listening experience to our audience with hundreds of podcasts available. We will continually be adding more content. What does this mean for third party platforms that previously carried BBC podcasts and audio? These changes only impact BBC platforms, as BBC content will remain available on third-party platforms outside the UK. How can I search for specific audio content? You can search for specific audio content using keywords, titles or contributors in the search bar at the top of the BBC app or BBC.com website. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: DaveRo Date: 10 Apr 25 - 06:58 AM More, but not much more yet, about listening outsude the UK in this thread |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 10 Apr 25 - 05:43 AM The BBC page about loss of access to Sounds outside the UK If you live outside the UK, how you listen to BBC radio will change, starting from spring 2025. Instead of using BBC Sounds, you’ll be able to use a new service at BBC.com and on the BBC app. BBC Studios has launched these all-new audio environments, tailored to outside UK audiences. The BBC’s content will remain available on other international podcast platforms. International listeners will no longer be able to use the BBC Sounds app and website from spring 2025. You can find out more about these changes on the bbc.com website. Advice for UK Listeners travelling abroad For listeners who reside in the UK, you will still be able to use the BBC Sounds mobile app when you are abroad. Check our FAQ for further info: Can I use BBC Sounds when I travel outside the UK? Why are we making these changes? BBC Sounds is a UK licence fee funded service. To offer better value for our UK listeners, BBC Sounds will be repositioned and made available exclusively to UK audiences. BBC Studios is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC and is focused on bringing our trusted, world class journalism and storytelling to international audiences. This includes BBC audio content on bbc.com and the BBC app, which will be focused to international listeners. Support for listeners Outside the UK If you live outside of the UK and have a query regarding listening to BBC radio and audio content, please visit the support page at bbc.com where you can find help and contact their support team. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/listening-outside-the-uk/outside-uk-changes |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Date: 10 Apr 25 - 05:05 AM All online BBC listeners should note that from this Spring, BBC will be removing access to all stations for listeners outside UK EXCEPT Radios 123 and 4 and the World Service. So ALL regional stations Radio Ulster, and the National stations of Wales and Scotland will not be available via BBC Sounds. So this thread will soon be of use only to UK listeners or to non-UK (including Ireland) techies devious enough to find their way around this vandalism . It will mean the loss of the high proportion of traditional music broadcast by the BBC from Scotlansd, Wales, Northern Ireland and ALL the local UK stations |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 09 Apr 25 - 02:14 AM Thank you, Rain Dog. BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk 10 April 2025 20:00 In the Tradition Anna Massie presents In The Tradition, a concert recorded at Celtic Connections 2025 in Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall with a great line up of duos and trios, each breathing new life into traditional music. 03 Apr 2025 Available for 24 days Anna Massie explores the Bothy Ballads with Scott Gardiner on the anniversary of Joe Aitken's passing. Plus we hear about the Edinburgh International Harp Festival. 27 March 2025 17 days left to listen We hear the music born from an incredible collaboration of musicians, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart. Plus, we celebrate 30 years of Flook as Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen join us on the show to talk about their latest album, Sanju. 13 March 2025 3 days left to listen We hear Anna's chat with Canadian fiddle sensation Natalie MacMaster recorded at this year's Celtic Connections. She tells Anna about her trips to Scotland over the years and getting the family involved in performing. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 07 Apr 25 - 12:24 PM Here's hoping that you make it to dry land soon henryp. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 07 Apr 25 - 11:07 AM 09 April 2025 9:00pm BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Music for making and doing It's a productive episode this week, as Mark plays folk songs about making, building and crafting. Many folk songs are about the experience of making things, alone or together. Weaving, building, hedgelaying, boat building, instrument making and haymaking have all inspired countless songs. Jobs like mining, driving, sailing and farming are at the centre of many more. Mark rolls up his sleeves and digs into the archive. Tell him what you're up to! Me? Difficult days! Don't know if I'm sinking or swimming! |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 29 Mar 25 - 08:25 PM BBC R4 29 March 18:15 Loose Ends Available now on BBC Sounds Michael Rosen, Barbara Flynn, Dylan Jones, Kemah Bob, Stuart Maconie. With music by the winner of Channel 4's talent show The Piano Brad Kella, who is about to tour with Take That's Gary Barlow and the folk singer and protest song writer Grace Petrie. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Mar 25 - 03:51 PM BBC Radio 4 19:15 23 March Illumination A Georgian Polyphonic Feast Available for over a year. Welcome to the feast! We’re invited to a traditional Georgian ‘Supra’ to immerse ourselves in the magic of Georgian polyphonic singing. For Paris-based singer Luna Silva, these songs bring her the comfort and sense of togetherness of her childhood circus home. Since first hearing the music as an ethno-musicology student in London, she has made several trips to the Georgian mountains to immerse herself in the musical tradition, and now teaches polyphonic singing to her French choir. She even took them with her to Lakhushdi. Now, the French choir has invited their Georgian hosts to attend their first Supra in Montreuil, Paris. In the pauses during the Supra, as people talk and eat, we hear from singers and diners what makes the Supra so important in Georgia. Luna and Levan also dissect the polyphonic singing style, as voices are added and removed to demonstrate how individual pitches and harmonies are brought together. They are layered over each other, surrounding the listener in a bath of sound which touches the soul. As the Supra draws to a close, everyone joins together to sing a song to life. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 23 Mar 25 - 06:28 AM BBC Radio4 Extra Poetry Extra: Wild Music "Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Wild Music, a collaboration between a poet and composer. Scottish poet and writer John Burnside received a CD of Solan Goose by musician and composer Erland Cooper. These "sonic postcards" of Erland's native Orkney are inspired by local dialect, birds, landscapes and the sea. For John Burnside, it reconnected him with nature in a profound way. The two meet for the first time on Orkney while Erland is working on the final album of his Orkney trilogy. Braving heavy rain and gale-force winds, Erland takes John to locations that inspire his work. Scattered across the Orkney islands are some of the UK’s best preserved neolithic monuments, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. John feels a direct connection to the stone-age communities who lived here 5000 years ago, and a sense that those people lived really close to the earth, the sea and the sky. We visit the mysterious Ring of Brodgar, the neolithic village of Skara Brae, a sacred cairn, and the Bay of Skale. John responds by composing five new poems. Sheltering from the storm, Erland and John entertain each other by swapping their favourite Orkney myths and legends - featuring seal people, a trip to faerie land and disappearing islands. These stories also weave their way into both artists' work. Producer; Victoria Ferran A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2019." |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 21 Mar 25 - 04:17 PM Wednesday 26 March 9:00pm BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe; Catching up with The Pogues! This week, Mark is joined by Spider Stacy and Jem Finer from The Pogues. They share memories of the late Shane MacGowan and the making of their 1985 classic, Rum Sodomy & The Lash. To mark the album's 40th anniversary, the band are touring with guest singers including Daragh Lynch, Nadine Shah and Lisa O'Neill. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,JoeG Date: 18 Mar 25 - 01:30 PM Add to Playlist is my favourite radio programme - I love the way they explain music theory in easily understandable ways |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST Date: 18 Mar 25 - 11:02 AM Wednesday 19 March 9:00pm BBC Radio 2 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe. Lisa and Gerry perform tracks from their new album, Hinterland. Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver, two of the most inventive musicians and voices in UK folk, play live in the Salford studio ahead of their appearance at the Manchester Folk Festival, which happens around the city 20th-22nd March. Plus an exclusive first play of new music by Kate Rusby and Irish tracks for St. Patrick's Day, which was on Monday. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: DaveRo Date: 15 Mar 25 - 09:07 AM Add to Playlist was a much more interesting programme than the title suggests. And the presenters were more knowlegeable than they tried to appear. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 15 Mar 25 - 03:50 AM Add to Playlist 14th March 2025 Concertina and melodeon player Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and composer and arranger Anne Dudley contribute to the next five tracks on the playlist. Alongside Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe, they take us on a journey from the elegant vocals of Amy Winehouse to a Japanese folk tune about hardworking fishermen. The five tracks in this week's playlist: Love is a Losing Game by Amy Winehouse Sarabande by Claude Debussy Lambada by Pinduca The Bristol Sailorman/Will the Waggoner by John Kirkpatrick (Cohen) Kaigara Bushi by Mitsune www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028v4s |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 Mar 25 - 07:57 AM https://mikehardingfolkshow.com/ Mike Harding Folk Show A complete archive of all his own post-BBC podcasts. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 08 Mar 25 - 02:32 PM BBC Radio 4 6.15pm Saturday 08 March Loose Ends. Repeat from 1 February 2025 Clive Anderson and guests plus music from the English folk star Sam Lee, who is Artist-in-residence for a year of environment-themed events - Earth Unwrapped - at Kings Place in London. Sam Lee sings Meeting is a Pleasant Place. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: DaveRo Date: 08 Mar 25 - 02:53 AM Upcoming changes for listening to BBC audio outside the UK "From Spring 2025". For all you in the southern hemisphere, that's soon. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 08 Mar 25 - 01:36 AM BBC Radio 2 9:00pm Wednesday 12 March The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Fire and Dust Mark speaks to Reg Meuross and Pete Townshend about Fire and Dust - The Woody Guthrie Story, Reg Meuross’s third song cycle, launched tonight. Another important chapter of impeccably researched story-telling has begun. “Reg’s terrific songs tell Woody’s life story with respect and affection, but also truth.“ Pete Townshend. More information on Bandcamp. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 05 Mar 25 - 01:43 PM BBC Radio 2 9:00pm 5 March Flying north for spring The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe With music by The Young'uns, Karine Polwart, Sandy Denny, Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Sam Shackleton, Simon & Garfunkel, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, and more. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: FreddyHeadey Date: 26 Feb 25 - 04:21 PM Only five days left to hear BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Final 2025 Clelland Shand, Noah Scott, Ellie Beaton, Miguel Girão, Roo Geddes, Laura Penman, Calum McIlroy Six young musicians compete in BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027kw5 |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 26 Feb 25 - 02:00 AM BBC Radio 2 9:00pm 26 February The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe This week, songwriter Iona Lane talks about new songs inspired by Scottish islands and coasts. Iona's album, Swilkie, was written on the Isle of Eigg, Sanday in Orkney and the Knoydart peninsula, from where Iona chats to Mark. |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 25 Feb 25 - 06:13 AM Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011, then BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2016 & then again at 00.30 today Sore Fingers "Eavesdrop on banjo mania in Stow-on-the-Wold. It’s like Billy Bunter with banjos. The unmistakeable sound of American Appalachia. In this town, Bluegrass enthusiasts pack up their banjos and fiddles for a week of fast and furious music which has become a fixture on the international Bluegrass calendar. Bluegrass is a relatively recent form of American folk music - made popular in the 30s and 40s by Bill Monroe. The music has its roots in the folk music of Ireland, Scotland and England - taken over with the early settlers and fused with other American influences. But it's made a return journey back across the Atlantic with burgeoning interest here in American Bluegrass and Old Time music. Every year since 1996 a Summer School and convention for Bluegrass enthusiasts - called Sore Fingers - takes place during the Easter vacation at Kingham Hill school in the Cotswolds. As the pupils depart for the holiday a new set of students arrives - some with moustaches, all with an instrument and, for five days, the Oxfordshire playing fields and quads echo to the sound of Kentucky. The instruments include banjo, fiddle, mandolin, Dobro and guitar. It's called Sore Fingers for a reason: the students and the tutors play all day and late into the night. The talent is prodigious - the fastest picking you're likely to hear this side of Pike County. Amongst the tutors are world class players flown in from America - including banjo player Tony Trischka, flat picker Jim Hurst and Dobro virtuoso Mike Witcher. Amongst the students there are grizzly beards from Doncaster who've been flat picking and claw hammering for fifty years, alongside teenage virtuosos - including 16 year old Edward Bennett from Cornwall, winner of the Clifftop, West Virginia Banjo competition. We eavesdrop on a week at Sore Fingers talking to the players about their lives outside and inside the Bluegrass camp: we hear about the history of the music, its revival in England and dip in to some of the classroom sessions. We hear from the Scouse sheet metal worker who gave it all up to make banjos; the couple who met in the fiddle tutor group and who've been together ever since and the carer sent to Sore Fingers by the council for a respite break who keeps coming back. All this and some fine, uplifting music. Producer: Lindsay Leonard" |
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Subject: RE: BBC Radio This week 2025 From: GUEST,henryp Date: 22 Feb 25 - 04:39 AM BBC Radio 4 6.15pm Saturday 22 February Loose Ends Stuart Maconie is joined in Salford by Stuart Lee and Philippa Dunn. With music from Barb Jungr. |
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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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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: 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 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: 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: 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,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: 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 - 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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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