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Audrey Coppard (England, c.1956) - bio?

rich-joy 03 Feb 25 - 04:13 AM
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Subject: Audrey Coppard (England, c.1956) - bio?
From: rich-joy
Date: 03 Feb 25 - 04:13 AM

I found a track ('Scarborough Fair') by Audrey Coppard on the excellent compilation by Elijah Wald for the Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown".
I was curious about this English singer becoz I cannot recall hearing of her before!
She recorded an album (English Folk Songs) for Folkways (now on Smithsonian) in 1956 of 14 folksongs, accompanied on 8 of the tracks by American guitarist, Lesley Davidson.

https://folkways.si.edu/audrey-coppard/english-folk-songs/celtic-world/music/album/smithsonian

Any Catters familiar with her and can comment on her history?? (is she still alive?) My searches online have turned up nothing (unless she is also an author? but those pages still tell me nothing about Audrey herself .....

Thanks. R-J


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Subject: RE: Audrey Stoppard (England, c.1956) - bio?
From: DaveRo
Date: 08 Feb 25 - 04:38 AM

On the Smithsonian site you can download the liner notes which tell us that Mrs Coppard was 23 (in 1956) and a bit about her folk singing in London (concerts organised by A L Lloyd, Ewan McColl).

An Audrey Coppard also wrote a small and curious collection of books. On one of them, 'Orwell Remembered' (copy in the Internet Archive) she is merely described as the collaborator of Bernard Crick, who wrote an Orwell biography. The book originated from a BBC programme. I wonder if she worked for the BBC?


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Subject: RE: Audrey Stoppard (England, c.1956) - bio?
From: rich-joy
Date: 08 Feb 25 - 06:02 AM

Ah, thanks - I wondered if she was that Author (which still didn't divulge anything about her, LoL!!)


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Subject: RE: Audrey Coppard (England, c.1956) - bio?
From: SqueezeMe
Date: 08 Feb 25 - 08:50 PM

rich-joy, I pm'd you, but it looks like Mudcat has eaten it.


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Subject: RE: Audrey Stoppard (England, c.1956) - bio?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 09 Feb 25 - 05:22 AM

As secretary for
The Political Quarterly Publishing Company Limited
Oxfordshire
The other key person in those years was Audrey Coppard. As Company Secretary and copy editor, Audrey was ‘the real heart of PQ’, according to Crouch. She had been Crick’s secretary when he was professor of politics at Birkbeck, had jointly written a book on Orwell with him, but carried on working for PQ after he had retired to live in Edinburgh. ,,,

During the 1990s Audrey Coppard appointed Gillian Somerscales (then Gillian Bromley) as Editorial Assistant, later to be renamed Assistant Editor. Gillian created the first formal and detailed style sheet for PQ but left in the early 2000s, to be replaced by Stephen Ball (though Audrey retained the Company Secretary role until she retired herself, then handing it over to him).   


https://politicalquarterly.org.uk/about/our-history/
.gov
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/9u8rVizzJD1YFiQ5NNrphBCehY8/appointments


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Subject: RE: Audrey Stoppard (England, c.1956) - bio?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 09 Feb 25 - 05:37 AM

Track list

Hares On The Mountain        
Johnny Todd        
Died Of Love        
I Will Give My Love An Apple        
The Nightingale        
The Trees Are Getting High        
Lavender (Street Cry)        
Primroses (Street Cry)        
Young Lambs ('Toy' Lambs) (Street Cry)        
I Know Where I'm Going        
The Fireman's Song        
Polly Vaughan        
Bitter Withy        
Scarborough Fair
Discogs
www.discogs.com/master/2171434-Audrey-Coppard-English-Folk-Songs

YouTube
https://youtube.com/channel/UCJ9G2uO-0a-1MISQ97I5N0A

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/7x9JRa8AgWICT1uetQ3W5R?si=OUd3jFILRkiLMyGrrVNbjg


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Subject: RE: Audrey Stoppard (England, c.1956) - bio?
From: SqueezeMe
Date: 09 Feb 25 - 06:38 AM

Please disregard my previous post. The pm was sent, but just didn't turn up in my list of sent messages in the expected timely manner. I hope it may be of interest.


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Subject: RE: Audrey Stoppard (England, c.1956) - bio?
From: DaveRo
Date: 09 Feb 25 - 07:53 AM

FreddyHeadey wrote: [Audrey Coppard was] Crick’s secretary when he was professor of politics at Birkbeck, had jointly written a book on Orwell with him...
What I called the "small and curious collection of books" were written in the '70s and are (all?) non-fiction for youngsters. 'Nancy of Nottingham' is about the Luddites and the effects of early industrialisatiion on traditional 'stockingers'. 'Who has Poisoned our Sea' seems to have sold well and was translated into several languages. I am rather intrigued by 'Sending Secrets, an Introduction to Codes'. (I can't find a secondhand copy of that.)

But is this the same person who sang on that record?

The Arena Orwell documentary, broadcast in 1984, is on YouTube BTW.


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Subject: RE: Audrey Stoppard (England, c.1956) - bio?
From: rich-joy
Date: 09 Feb 25 - 07:34 PM

Info from Catter, SqueezeMe (thank you!), points to an Australian connection with a probable brother/nephew in the Hill End area of NSW!
However, it was all a long time ago now, and they have both passed on - and probably Audrey Coppard too.
It would just be nice to get some background on her as I rather enjoyed her singing on that Folkways album, but had never come across the name before .....

R-J, Down Under


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