Great Lives series - BBC radio

28 Nov 22 - 07:51 AM (#4159004)
Subject: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: FreddyHeadey

! So many pages and too difficult to define a folk genre so I've included any I spotted with a musical connection.

Here are the ones I'd bookmarked but do check for any I've missed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxsb/episodes/

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Louis Armstrong
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dyk53

Josephine Baker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2jg2w

Lionel Bart
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088fg46

Sir Thomas Beecham
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00js9g1

Captain Beefheart
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xjx30

Chuck Berry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g8sz

James Brown
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04d4n8b

Jeff Buckley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06wd26b

David Bowie
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bcgt9x

Ferruccio Busoni
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004l97

John Cage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007xmd1

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glwsr

John Coltrane
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k8t3z

Noel Coward (Julian Clary 2006)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glwcm

Noel Coward (Peter Bazalgette 2003)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076h63

Ian Curtis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b4wty

Ivor Cutler
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vghy

Miles Davis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09z4k9z

Sammy Davis Jr
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wr8pq

Delia Derbyshire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rcpn

Lonnie Donegan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xs8c
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169762)

Jacqueline Du Pre
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zb4bd

Ian Dury
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076j0c

Edward Elgar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076p53

Brian Epstein
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050r0

Kenny Everett
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rvppq

Kathleen Ferrier
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010fd93

Gracie Fields
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07m5ny0

Ella Fitzgerald
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glwbn

Judy Garland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017thf

Marvin Gaye
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076nys

Gilbert and Sullivan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076ngt

Hildegard Von Bingen   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014q00c

Billie Holiday
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079n8m

Herbert Howells
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007bd2

Fela Kuti
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0383yt5

John Lennon   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t7307

Alan Lomax (Shirley Collins - 2019)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057n4
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=166138)

Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03s718g

Ewan MacColl
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zdqv

Kirsty MacColl
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01322dk

Malcolm McLaren
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wdgxd

Bob Marley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076ds8

Yehudi Menuhin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ykqp
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170221)

Freddie Mercury
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000256j

Thelonious Monk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069rvbl
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=168828)

Jim Morrison
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h0gb

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glx0b

Elvis Presley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vzrt

Prince
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008hx2

Henry Purcell
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043x48v

Rachmaninov   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076dls

Johnny Ramone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012ft5

Franz Schubert
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04c0rjb

Gil Scott-Heron
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016xjy

Ravi Shankar   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001b41j

Nina Simone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gj86h

Frank Sinatra
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k3zns

Elliott Smith
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vwsm

Vivian Stanshall   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pcklz

Joe Strummer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007766p

Donna Summer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m0bl

Tchaikovsky
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076l2c

Jake Thackray
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042jhlm
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=168877)

Hank Williams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03kqfzz

Ralph Vaughan Williams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pfxj3

Tony Wilson   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017482

Victoria Wood
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hvlh




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28 Nov 22 - 10:24 AM (#4159022)
Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: Stilly River Sage

Nice work! That took a while to assemble!

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28 Nov 22 - 12:02 PM (#4159043)
Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: Bonnie Shaljean

Cheers Freddy! I love that progremme -

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28 Nov 22 - 12:54 PM (#4159066)
Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: Rain Dog

Thanks for taking the time to provide those links.

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16 Dec 22 - 02:09 PM (#4159486)
Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: GUEST,Be3achcomber

Just listened to Peggy Seeger on Ewan MacColl, terrific !

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17 Dec 22 - 01:01 PM (#4159544)
Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: Joe Offer

And the links work in the US. We can't get access to some offerings from BBC here.

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