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15 Dec 22 - 07:40 PM (#4159429) Subject: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: FreddyHeadey 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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23 Dec 22 - 08:07 PM (#4160064) Subject: RE: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: FreddyHeadey 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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29 Jan 23 - 10:59 AM (#4163864) Subject: RE: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: FreddyHeadey 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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29 Jan 23 - 05:30 PM (#4163900) Subject: RE: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: Sandra in Sydney 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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19 Oct 23 - 10:19 PM (#4184060) Subject: RE: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: FreddyHeadey The 2023 programmes will have been mentioned on the 2023 BBC radio thread but there are a few older ones too : A Jig into History - 2023 Sunday Feature - R3 With a copy of Kemp’s recollection of his feat ‘Kemps Nine Daies Wonder’ under her arm, Professor Nandini Das takes to the streets of London to examine the impact of Kemp’s endeavour and explain why it had as much to do with merchant venturing as it did street and theatrical entertainment. She’s joined by scholars Tracey Hill, Daisy Black and the former Olympian Peter Radford, all of whom believe that while Shakespeare’s legacy endures through a clear line of English Theatrical tradition, Kemp’s journey should also be seen as an early example of the enduring tradition of ordinary folk making sporting endeavour and entertainment pay. Producer Tom Alban https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001j4rz very much World Music Andy Kershaw BBC Radio 3 ~2003-2007 Algeria - Rai music in Oran and the Kasbah of Algiers. Algeria - Rachid Taha and the Kabilian mountains. Marseille - Mahgreb Rap, Algerian Rai, Pacific Creole, Congolese Rumba Turkmenistan - Christmas in Ashgabat Mauritania - The Festival of Nomad Music Corsica and Sardinia Iran - Axis of Evil North Korea, part 1 North Korea, part 2 Ethiopia - Comic Relief 2003 Mali - Mopti, Timbuktu and Bamako; Les Escrocs and Toumani Diabate Mali - Festival in the Desert; Ali Farka Toure, Tinariwen and Robert Plant https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnwy/episodes/player Ane Brun - 2017 The Voice Of ,,,, ,,, her solo albums - including A Temporary Dive and It All Starts With One - reveal an artist rooted in her own sense of musical expression, alternately melancholy and playful. As she muses in Changing of the Seasons, "I guess I'm too Scandinavian." Alan Hall visits Ane Brun at her studio in Stockholm and shares a walk through the old city, discussing Shakespeare, her family at home in Norway and the particular qualities of her distinctive voice." www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08slxy6 & see the mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=115049 Annie Briggs / Anne Briggs - 2016 The Voices of... "Annie wanders on the land. She loves the freedom of the air. She finds a friend in ev'ry place she goes. There's always a face she knows. I wish that I was there." And so she remains, now a grandmother living by the water in the west of Scotland. She's always resolutely resisted celebrity and commercial success, withdrawing from the folk scene in the early 1970s, but her legacy - her voice and her attitude - continue to inspire and to carry a link to life as it was once lived in 'the imagined village'. Annie talks to Alan Hall. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07syrrs Bert Jansch(1965) - 2018 Classic Scottish Albums Davie Scott chats with the late Bert Jansch about his eponymous debut album. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06c2f2y Busking & Billy Waters - Mar 2023 Free Thinking Billy Waters became a celebrity in early 19th century London as a talented street performer. New Generation Thinker Oskar Jensen and Mary L. Shannon join Rana Mitter to tell Billy's story and those of other musicians performing on the streets of London at the time. Mary L. Shannon's book 'Billy Waters Is Dancing' will be published later this year[2023]. Producer: Torquil MacLeod www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k1g8 > 4:45 (~19 minutes) Capercaillie - Delirium(1991) - 2018 Classic Scottish Albums Davie Scott highlights Capercaillie's dynamic album Delirium. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06lhxh9 Cara Dillon - Oct 2023 Front Row Singer Cara Dillon is known globally for her interpretations of traditional Irish songs. As she performs at the Belfast International Arts Festival, she explains why she’s taking a new direction with her upcoming album [”Coming Home”], the first time she’s released an album of original songs. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rgz9 > 13:40 (~12 minutes) Chasing Jamie Allan - 2023 Open Country Jamie Allan was a celebrated musician and friend of the aristocracy, but also a thief, bigamist, and deserter. Known as "The Dukes Piper", he is the source of many songs and legends in Northumbria. In this programme, folk singer Jez Lowe traces one of these legends across the Rivers Ouse and Nidd, over which Jamie Allan supposedly fled from army conscription to freedom in Scotland. As he crosses the waterways of North Yorkshire, Jez finds out about the life and adventures of this Robin Hood figure from the 18th century, and enjoys some of the music he would have played. Produced by Helen Lennard www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l9dx The Dawning of the Day - 2022 The Lyric Feature - RTÉ The story behind Patrick Kavanagh's On Raglan Road Particularly interesting are the recollections from Hilda Moriarty's son Daragh O'Malley. www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/22187171-the-dawning-of-the-day-the-lyric-feature/ Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns(2003) - 2020 Classic Scottish Albums Davie Scott chats with Eddi Reader about her love of Scotland's national bard. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0811qp7 Black women and cancer, Eleanor McEvoy, Shamima Begum ruling, Yazidi women, A Victorian dress diary - 2023 Woman's Hour Eleanor McEvoy is one of Ireland's foremost songwriters and has worked with the likes of U2, Sinead O'Connor and Mary Black. She is the composer and co-performer of A Woman's Heart, the title track for the best-selling Irish album in Irish history, and one of Ireland's favourite folk songs, which recently featured in the award winning Derry Girls. One of Eleanor's songs, Sophie, is used in treatment centres to treat patients with eating disorders. She joins Nuala live in the studio to discuss her UK tour, the inspiration behind the tracks of her most recent album Gimme Some Wine and to perform the track South Anne Street. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jc74 > ~17:20 (10 minutes) Playwright Ryan Calais Cameron, musician Stewart Copeland and is Morris dancing having a moment? - 2023 Front Row Next Monday is May Day when morris dancers will perform at dawn to greet the summer. Morris dancing is itself enjoying a moment in the sun: Boss Morris, an all-female folk dance group, performed with the Best New Artist winners, Wet Leg, at this year's Brit Awards. Samira is joined by Michael Heaney, author of a new history of the dance; the musician Rob Harbron, who composes new morris tunes; and Lily Cheetham of Boss Morris – who will dance for us. Presenter: Samira Ahmed www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l986 > skip to ~30:30 Michael Heaney's book : The Ancient English Morris Dance Government Song Woman - 2023 Sunday Feature - R3 American musician Rhiannon Giddens investigates the fascinating life and recordings of the folk song collector Sidney Robertson Cowell. Travelling thousands of miles all over the US in the depression era, Cowell was willing to track down songs in unlikely places, once writing "I don't scare easily." She spent a night riding in a hearse in Wisconsin just to question the driver and hear his songs, walked up mountains to record lumberjacks and traditional Appalachian singers and poled three miles downriver after dark on a makeshift raft to find a famed fiddler in his goldmine in California. Listening to her recordings is like travelling back in time; they capture the voices of so many different nationalities that emigrated to the US, but she also made recordings on the Aran Islands in Ireland. During her lifetime Cowell was marginalised like so many women collectors of that period, but in this celebration of her recordings and observations, Giddens finally gives her work the attention it deserves. - Cathy Hiebert Kerst, folklorist and archivist who catalogued Sidney's recordings of the WPA California Folk Project. - Sheryl Kaskowitz, scholar of American music and author of forthcoming book: The Music Unit: FDR's Hidden New Deal Program that Tried to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time. - Jim P Leary, a folklorist and scholar of Scandinavian studies, and a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of Folksongs of Another America. - Dr. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile writer, researcher and musician (she plays fiddle with Rhiannon at the end of the programme) who has written about the collecting work of Sidney Robertson Cowell on the Aran Islands in the 1950s. - Robert Cochrane, Professor of English and folklore specialist at the University of Arkansas. - Peggy Seeger, folksinger. - California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell: https://www.loc.gov/collections/sidney-robertson-cowell-northern-california-folk-music/about-this-collection/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jlm9 Barbara Demick on North Korea; Dungeons and Dragons controversy; folk musicians Hack-Poets Guild - 2023 Front Row Hack-Poets Guild is a collaboration between the renowned folk musicians Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann. Their new album Blackletter Garland is inspired by the collection of broadside ballads in the Bodleian Library, news sheets that circulated between the 16th and 20th Centuries. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kgrv > ~26:00 Hannah Peel - 2018 The Voices of... Hannah Peel inhabits many different worlds. She can, blithely, be described as a singer-songwriter, known for stripped back renditions of 80s pop songs, accompanying herself with a hand-turned music box. But then she's also composed an epic concept album for brass band and electronics and provided the music for a theatrical re-imagining of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, as well as being a session musician as a singer, violinist, trombonist, keyboard player and arranger. Some a bit folky ,,, rather than folk? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yddx9 The Hills are Alive! Commoners Choir in Calderdale - 2023 Ramblings - Boff Whalley is best known for Tubthumping with the band Chumbawamba but now he’s a core member of the Leeds based Commoners Choir which he founded. They sing about the world around them, about inequality and injustice, and they also love to walk. Cath Long, a fellow member, wrote to Ramblings to ask Clare to join them on a hike in the South Pennines near Todmorden in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. So, on a chilly, wet and blustery Saturday in early January, they met by the Shepherd’s Rest pub and headed into the hills to ramble and sing. Boff created a choir manifesto, and one aim was to 'rehearse until we're brilliant' and they really are. Their Skelmanthorpe Flag Song (https://youtu.be/SIsryw_3gfk), which they performed at the historic Basin Stone, was heard by fellow walkers at least two miles down in the valley. On a circular hike, which began and ended at the pub, they stopped off at Gaddings Dam, often described as the highest beach in the UK, where some choir members took the plunge and sang out from the wind-blown waves of the reservoir. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hnmg Karine Polwart 'Faultlines' - 2022 Classic Scottish Albums Karine Polwart talks about the making of her debut solo album Faultlines which dominated the 2005 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards This 29 minute version includes music in the background. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015sjz longer version; no music, just chat www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bybjcj Piper Kathryn Tickell performs, ,,,, - Oct 2023 Front Row Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening’s new album, Cloud Horizons, fuses synthesizers with a bone flute, a sistrum – very old Egyptian instrument - and lyrics based on an inscription in Latin carved on a stone in Northumberland nearly 2 millennia ago. Kathryn talks to Samira about this ancient Northumbrian futurism and plays her smallpipes, live. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r7qr first item \ starts @ ~1minute Les Barker - "Eisteddfod" - 2011 Word of Mouth Tired of living next to his noisy neighbours, Les Barker opted out of urban Manchester and moved to North Wales. "Although I'd spent half a lifetime an hour's drive away, I'd never heard of Hedd Wyn. Or any other major figure in Welsh history or literature, apart from Max Boyce and Dylan Thomas." So Les began to learn...and learn...and learn..... "After toying briefly with 'Teach Yourself Welsh', I went on a four-day course in Denbigh; Craig Jones was the tutor. Over the summer I did a couple of week-long courses in Denbigh, initially with another Mr Jones, but he went off sick and was replaced by a Mrs Jones. Wales is full of them." "Being a beginner is frustrating. After a lifetime of being fluent, I suddenly had the vocabulary and grammar of a three-year-old." But Les persevered, and is now a serious performer on the Welsh poetry scene, and one of the organisers of this summer's Eisteddfod. Chris Ledgard meets Les as he makes last minute preparations for the festival. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012wjcz Mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=139794 Front Row reviews the Frasier reboot and performance from folk musician Martin Hayes - October 2023 Front Row Martin Hayes has gone from playing the fiddle in his father’s ceilidh band in County Clare to performing for President Obama at the White House. Martin brings his band, The Common Ground Ensemble to perform in the Front Row studio. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Corinna Jones www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r7zr > 11:00 (17 minutes) Patrick Kavanagh: the Inexhaustible Adventure of a Gravelled Yard - 2018 Sunday Feature Theo Dorgan wanders the streets of Dublin and lanes of County Monaghan, tracing his life and significance. Only a little bit concerning Raglan Road; good programme though. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09rwmby Rachel and Becky Unthank - 2018 The Voices of... Series 3 Rachel and Becky share their sense of belonging to the landscape of the north-east, their inevitable attraction to melancholy and the qualities that allow each other's voice to blend so effortlessly. And, in their studio in a Northumbrian farm-yard, they sing their signature melodies and a duet that most typically sounds for the two of them. Produced by Alan Hall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zxl65 this is already listed but see extra links for the mudcat thread. 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 see the mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=157014#3703350 for links to RTE programmes about him broadcast the same year. Richard Dawson - 2020 He admits to a high level of everyday anxiety, yet has left a mark on contemporary folk music in England that testifies to an innate confidence in his musical vision. His albums (notably Nothing Important of 2014 and Peasant in 2017), as well as being critically acclaimed, have taken folk music into new territory that's at once ancient and avant-garde. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00075jj Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris and the Spell Songs Singers Scotland Outdoors - 2021 Helen Needham with the Spell Songs Collective ahead of the release of 'Let the Light In'. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b378fy ____________________ ____________________ |
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19 Oct 23 - 10:19 PM (#4188862) Subject: RE: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: FreddyHeadey The 2023 programmes will have been mentioned on the 2023 BBC radio thread but there are a few older ones too : A Jig into History - 2023 Sunday Feature - R3 With a copy of Kemp’s recollection of his feat ‘Kemps Nine Daies Wonder’ under her arm, Professor Nandini Das takes to the streets of London to examine the impact of Kemp’s endeavour and explain why it had as much to do with merchant venturing as it did street and theatrical entertainment. She’s joined by scholars Tracey Hill, Daisy Black and the former Olympian Peter Radford, all of whom believe that while Shakespeare’s legacy endures through a clear line of English Theatrical tradition, Kemp’s journey should also be seen as an early example of the enduring tradition of ordinary folk making sporting endeavour and entertainment pay. Producer Tom Alban https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001j4rz very much World Music Andy Kershaw BBC Radio 3 ~2003-2007 Algeria - Rai music in Oran and the Kasbah of Algiers. Algeria - Rachid Taha and the Kabilian mountains. Marseille - Mahgreb Rap, Algerian Rai, Pacific Creole, Congolese Rumba Turkmenistan - Christmas in Ashgabat Mauritania - The Festival of Nomad Music Corsica and Sardinia Iran - Axis of Evil North Korea, part 1 North Korea, part 2 Ethiopia - Comic Relief 2003 Mali - Mopti, Timbuktu and Bamako; Les Escrocs and Toumani Diabate Mali - Festival in the Desert; Ali Farka Toure, Tinariwen and Robert Plant https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnwy/episodes/player Ane Brun - 2017 The Voice Of ,,,, ,,, her solo albums - including A Temporary Dive and It All Starts With One - reveal an artist rooted in her own sense of musical expression, alternately melancholy and playful. As she muses in Changing of the Seasons, "I guess I'm too Scandinavian." Alan Hall visits Ane Brun at her studio in Stockholm and shares a walk through the old city, discussing Shakespeare, her family at home in Norway and the particular qualities of her distinctive voice." www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08slxy6 & see the mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=115049 Annie Briggs / Anne Briggs - 2016 The Voices of... "Annie wanders on the land. She loves the freedom of the air. She finds a friend in ev'ry place she goes. There's always a face she knows. I wish that I was there." And so she remains, now a grandmother living by the water in the west of Scotland. She's always resolutely resisted celebrity and commercial success, withdrawing from the folk scene in the early 1970s, but her legacy - her voice and her attitude - continue to inspire and to carry a link to life as it was once lived in 'the imagined village'. Annie talks to Alan Hall. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07syrrs Bert Jansch(1965) - 2018 Classic Scottish Albums Davie Scott chats with the late Bert Jansch about his eponymous debut album. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06c2f2y Busking & Billy Waters - Mar 2023 Free Thinking Billy Waters became a celebrity in early 19th century London as a talented street performer. New Generation Thinker Oskar Jensen and Mary L. Shannon join Rana Mitter to tell Billy's story and those of other musicians performing on the streets of London at the time. Mary L. Shannon's book 'Billy Waters Is Dancing' will be published later this year[2023]. Producer: Torquil MacLeod www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k1g8 > 4:45 (~19 minutes) Capercaillie - Delirium(1991) - 2018 Classic Scottish Albums Davie Scott highlights Capercaillie's dynamic album Delirium. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06lhxh9 Cara Dillon - Oct 2023 Front Row Singer Cara Dillon is known globally for her interpretations of traditional Irish songs. As she performs at the Belfast International Arts Festival, she explains why she’s taking a new direction with her upcoming album [”Coming Home”], the first time she’s released an album of original songs. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rgz9 > 13:40 (~12 minutes) Chasing Jamie Allan - 2023 Open Country Jamie Allan was a celebrated musician and friend of the aristocracy, but also a thief, bigamist, and deserter. Known as "The Dukes Piper", he is the source of many songs and legends in Northumbria. In this programme, folk singer Jez Lowe traces one of these legends across the Rivers Ouse and Nidd, over which Jamie Allan supposedly fled from army conscription to freedom in Scotland. As he crosses the waterways of North Yorkshire, Jez finds out about the life and adventures of this Robin Hood figure from the 18th century, and enjoys some of the music he would have played. Produced by Helen Lennard www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l9dx The Dawning of the Day - 2022 The Lyric Feature - RTÉ The story behind Patrick Kavanagh's On Raglan Road Particularly interesting are the recollections from Hilda Moriarty's son Daragh O'Malley. www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/22187171-the-dawning-of-the-day-the-lyric-feature/ Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns(2003) - 2020 Classic Scottish Albums Davie Scott chats with Eddi Reader about her love of Scotland's national bard. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0811qp7 Black women and cancer, Eleanor McEvoy, Shamima Begum ruling, Yazidi women, A Victorian dress diary - 2023 Woman's Hour Eleanor McEvoy is one of Ireland's foremost songwriters and has worked with the likes of U2, Sinead O'Connor and Mary Black. She is the composer and co-performer of A Woman's Heart, the title track for the best-selling Irish album in Irish history, and one of Ireland's favourite folk songs, which recently featured in the award winning Derry Girls. One of Eleanor's songs, Sophie, is used in treatment centres to treat patients with eating disorders. She joins Nuala live in the studio to discuss her UK tour, the inspiration behind the tracks of her most recent album Gimme Some Wine and to perform the track South Anne Street. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jc74 > ~17:20 (10 minutes) Playwright Ryan Calais Cameron, musician Stewart Copeland and is Morris dancing having a moment? - 2023 Front Row Next Monday is May Day when morris dancers will perform at dawn to greet the summer. Morris dancing is itself enjoying a moment in the sun: Boss Morris, an all-female folk dance group, performed with the Best New Artist winners, Wet Leg, at this year's Brit Awards. Samira is joined by Michael Heaney, author of a new history of the dance; the musician Rob Harbron, who composes new morris tunes; and Lily Cheetham of Boss Morris – who will dance for us. Presenter: Samira Ahmed www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l986 > skip to ~30:30 Michael Heaney's book : The Ancient English Morris Dance Government Song Woman - 2023 Sunday Feature - R3 American musician Rhiannon Giddens investigates the fascinating life and recordings of the folk song collector Sidney Robertson Cowell. Travelling thousands of miles all over the US in the depression era, Cowell was willing to track down songs in unlikely places, once writing "I don't scare easily." She spent a night riding in a hearse in Wisconsin just to question the driver and hear his songs, walked up mountains to record lumberjacks and traditional Appalachian singers and poled three miles downriver after dark on a makeshift raft to find a famed fiddler in his goldmine in California. Listening to her recordings is like travelling back in time; they capture the voices of so many different nationalities that emigrated to the US, but she also made recordings on the Aran Islands in Ireland. During her lifetime Cowell was marginalised like so many women collectors of that period, but in this celebration of her recordings and observations, Giddens finally gives her work the attention it deserves. - Cathy Hiebert Kerst, folklorist and archivist who catalogued Sidney's recordings of the WPA California Folk Project. - Sheryl Kaskowitz, scholar of American music and author of forthcoming book: The Music Unit: FDR's Hidden New Deal Program that Tried to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time. - Jim P Leary, a folklorist and scholar of Scandinavian studies, and a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of Folksongs of Another America. - Dr. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile writer, researcher and musician (she plays fiddle with Rhiannon at the end of the programme) who has written about the collecting work of Sidney Robertson Cowell on the Aran Islands in the 1950s. - Robert Cochrane, Professor of English and folklore specialist at the University of Arkansas. - Peggy Seeger, folksinger. - California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell: https://www.loc.gov/collections/sidney-robertson-cowell-northern-california-folk-music/about-this-collection/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jlm9 Barbara Demick on North Korea; Dungeons and Dragons controversy; folk musicians Hack-Poets Guild - 2023 Front Row Hack-Poets Guild is a collaboration between the renowned folk musicians Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann. Their new album Blackletter Garland is inspired by the collection of broadside ballads in the Bodleian Library, news sheets that circulated between the 16th and 20th Centuries. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kgrv > ~26:00 Hannah Peel - 2018 The Voices of... Hannah Peel inhabits many different worlds. She can, blithely, be described as a singer-songwriter, known for stripped back renditions of 80s pop songs, accompanying herself with a hand-turned music box. But then she's also composed an epic concept album for brass band and electronics and provided the music for a theatrical re-imagining of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, as well as being a session musician as a singer, violinist, trombonist, keyboard player and arranger. Some a bit folky ,,, rather than folk? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yddx9 The Hills are Alive! Commoners Choir in Calderdale - 2023 Ramblings - Boff Whalley is best known for Tubthumping with the band Chumbawamba but now he’s a core member of the Leeds based Commoners Choir which he founded. They sing about the world around them, about inequality and injustice, and they also love to walk. Cath Long, a fellow member, wrote to Ramblings to ask Clare to join them on a hike in the South Pennines near Todmorden in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. So, on a chilly, wet and blustery Saturday in early January, they met by the Shepherd’s Rest pub and headed into the hills to ramble and sing. Boff created a choir manifesto, and one aim was to 'rehearse until we're brilliant' and they really are. Their Skelmanthorpe Flag Song (https://youtu.be/SIsryw_3gfk), which they performed at the historic Basin Stone, was heard by fellow walkers at least two miles down in the valley. On a circular hike, which began and ended at the pub, they stopped off at Gaddings Dam, often described as the highest beach in the UK, where some choir members took the plunge and sang out from the wind-blown waves of the reservoir. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hnmg Karine Polwart 'Faultlines' - 2022 Classic Scottish Albums Karine Polwart talks about the making of her debut solo album Faultlines which dominated the 2005 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards This 29 minute version includes music in the background. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015sjz longer version; no music, just chat www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bybjcj Piper Kathryn Tickell performs, ,,,, - Oct 2023 Front Row Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening’s new album, Cloud Horizons, fuses synthesizers with a bone flute, a sistrum – very old Egyptian instrument - and lyrics based on an inscription in Latin carved on a stone in Northumberland nearly 2 millennia ago. Kathryn talks to Samira about this ancient Northumbrian futurism and plays her smallpipes, live. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r7qr first item \ starts @ ~1minute Les Barker - "Eisteddfod" - 2011 Word of Mouth Tired of living next to his noisy neighbours, Les Barker opted out of urban Manchester and moved to North Wales. "Although I'd spent half a lifetime an hour's drive away, I'd never heard of Hedd Wyn. Or any other major figure in Welsh history or literature, apart from Max Boyce and Dylan Thomas." So Les began to learn...and learn...and learn..... "After toying briefly with 'Teach Yourself Welsh', I went on a four-day course in Denbigh; Craig Jones was the tutor. Over the summer I did a couple of week-long courses in Denbigh, initially with another Mr Jones, but he went off sick and was replaced by a Mrs Jones. Wales is full of them." "Being a beginner is frustrating. After a lifetime of being fluent, I suddenly had the vocabulary and grammar of a three-year-old." But Les persevered, and is now a serious performer on the Welsh poetry scene, and one of the organisers of this summer's Eisteddfod. Chris Ledgard meets Les as he makes last minute preparations for the festival. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012wjcz Mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=139794 Front Row reviews the Frasier reboot and performance from folk musician Martin Hayes - October 2023 Front Row Martin Hayes has gone from playing the fiddle in his father’s ceilidh band in County Clare to performing for President Obama at the White House. Martin brings his band, The Common Ground Ensemble to perform in the Front Row studio. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Corinna Jones www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r7zr > 11:00 (17 minutes) Patrick Kavanagh: the Inexhaustible Adventure of a Gravelled Yard - 2018 Sunday Feature Theo Dorgan wanders the streets of Dublin and lanes of County Monaghan, tracing his life and significance. Only a little bit concerning Raglan Road; good programme though. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09rwmby Rachel and Becky Unthank - 2018 The Voices of... Series 3 Rachel and Becky share their sense of belonging to the landscape of the north-east, their inevitable attraction to melancholy and the qualities that allow each other's voice to blend so effortlessly. And, in their studio in a Northumbrian farm-yard, they sing their signature melodies and a duet that most typically sounds for the two of them. Produced by Alan Hall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zxl65 this is already listed but see extra links for the mudcat thread. 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 see the mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=157014#3703350 for links to RTE programmes about him broadcast the same year. Richard Dawson - 2020 He admits to a high level of everyday anxiety, yet has left a mark on contemporary folk music in England that testifies to an innate confidence in his musical vision. His albums (notably Nothing Important of 2014 and Peasant in 2017), as well as being critically acclaimed, have taken folk music into new territory that's at once ancient and avant-garde. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00075jj Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris and the Spell Songs Singers Scotland Outdoors - 2021 Helen Needham with the Spell Songs Collective ahead of the release of 'Let the Light In'. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b378fy ____________________ ____________________ |
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16 Jan 24 - 12:58 PM (#4195556) Subject: RE: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: FreddyHeadey Blas Ceoil - Radio Ulster series ,,,starts your weekend in style, featuring new releases, gig guide details and live acoustic sessions to keep. (in Gaelic chat & music) episodes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cmsk6/episodes/ video and audio clips www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cmsk6/clips The Ciderhouse Rebellion - Oct 2023 Genevieve Talks Folk "We were there within the first 8 bars doing things that shouldn't have been possible." Master accordionist Murray Grainger and fiddle player Adam Summerhayes tell Genevieve what makes their relationship so special. 9 minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gmpsm7 Chloe Matharu - Oct 2023 Genevieve Talks Folk Genevieve Tudor talks to Chloe about her career as Navigational Officer and how it inspired her career as an award-winning singer-songwriter and harpist. 9 minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gkzzmd The Concertina Man - 2004 Masterpiece The story of the invention in the 19th century of the musical instrument, the English Concertina by British scientist Charles Wheatstone. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cgdc6 ,,,mudcat post : Songs About The Concertina (part of the 'Any December Songs?' thread) mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170618#4176195 & the post below Dave Webber - Nov 2023 Genevieve Talks Folk Dave’s been part of the folk tradition for a long time, singing all over the UK and the United States with his wife Anni Fentiman. Since retiring he’s moved to the country and spends more time looking after his bees and wild flowers. 4½minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gqkrq2 Fairytale of New York - Dec 2015 Soul Music James Fearnley, pianist with The Pogues recounts how the song started off as a transatlantic love story between an Irish seafarer missing his girl at Christmas before becoming the bittersweet reminiscences of the Irish immigrant down on his luck in the Big Apple & stories about how the song has touched others. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s9d1h The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - 2016 Soul Music Memories of first love, first borns and loss are stirred by 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07zz5y8 Graham Nash - 2024 Desert Island Discs The singer and songwriter Graham Nash is best known as part of The Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash but he’s also a celebrated photographer. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001v2w0 Harry Belafonte - 2024 Great Lives Fitness guru Derrick Evans MBE AKA 'Mr Motivator' picks Harry Belafonte. Harry Belafonte became the King of Calypso with hits like 'Day-O' and 'Jump in the Line' but he would later describe himself as an activist who became a musician and an actor. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001v3jw Irish Music Icons 2023 & 2024 Ireland's most popular music icons discuss their lives and legacy. Originally radio broadcasts but most programmes have a video version available. currently Horslips Gary Lightbody Moya Brennan Barry Douglas Philomena Begley Paul Brady www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dq7v/clips Joni Mitchell - Blue: Pain and Pleasure - 2021 Seriously Marking the 50th anniversary of the release of Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue, Laura Marling tells the story behind the writing and recording of the album, and explains why Blue is regarded by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000x0y1 The Joni Mitchell Story - 2023 Legend - 6 episodes Joni Mitchell's songs have soundtracked our lives and her pioneering work changed music forever. As she turns 80, Jesca Hoop explores her extraordinary story to reveal the life behind the legend. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ryq1/episodes/guide Joni Mitchell: Verbatim - 2023 Archive On 4 ,,, there are two major physically and emotionally charged life changing events that defined Joni's artistic development and deeply influenced her creative output - a severe bout of polio as a child and an unwanted pregnancy as a teenager, which forced Joni to support her and her baby as a destitute single mother. Fearing her inability to cope, Joni gave the baby up for adoption. The lessons learned from dealing with these traumas have shaped every personal and professional decision Joni has ever made,,, www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001s52d Patrick Doyle, Chris Stout and Lorne MacDougall interviewed by Bruce MacGregor - 2019 Travelling Folk (Radio Scotland) An in-depth conversation with Patrick Doyle, the composer for Disney Pixar's blockbuster animation Brave, who grew up in Uddingston. Patrick made it his mission to make the music of Brave as authentic and true to Scotland as possible, featuring musicians from the Scottish traditional scene such as Chris Stout and Lorne MacDougall. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07f9z5k Pilgrimage for a Pint - Dec 2023 Joining Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart are fellow musicians Iain MacFarlane and Ingrid Henderson, and the poets Sarah Grant and Doug Wilson Garry. They have set themselves the challenge of writing a new song and composing poetry about their two different pilgrimages for a pint, aiming to capture their experiences in words and music - and all in time for a special Sunday Session at The Old Forge [Knoydart] where they join the locals for a fun evening celebrating the recent community buyout of this remotest of pubs. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tq1k Polly Bolton - Oct 2023 Genevieve Talks Folk - Radio Shropshire Folk singer Polly Bolton talks to Genevieve about her new project, "An acre of land" a collection of folk songs rooted in south Shropshire and The Marches. 10 minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gp3zn6 (^ This is the Shropshire Polly Bolton, not the one who sings with The Trials of Cato https://youtu.be/o5GR7vl_Xvk&t=0m39s) The Power of Song - Jan 2024 Thinking Allowed Laurie Taylor talks to James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of York and author of a new study which explores the cultural history of "Amazing Grace". Also, Angela Impey Professor of Enthomusicology at SOAS[School of Oriental and African Studies], argues that songs in South Sudan can be key platform for truth-telling, often invested with greater moral force than other forms of communication in the context of 50 years of civil war. What role can songs play in the struggle for peace and justice? Producer: Jayne Egerton www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001v3mb Book: mudcat discussion of the programme https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=173010 mudcat Amazing Grace thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=6791 Recording on the Nomads' Trail - 2023 Sunday Feature Musician Paul Purgas explores the life of Deben Bhattacharya, the uncelebrated godfather of Indian field recording. Bhattacharya’s recordings have shaped the way the West has listened to the sounds of South Asia and beyond and the vastness of his output is remarkable. Who was the man behind it all? And what are we to make of his legacy today? With contributions from: Dr DM Withers, Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Exeter Robert Millis, Seattle-based sound artist Srimoyi Bhattacharya, Bhattacharya’s daughter Birgit Lundin, Bhattacharya’s ex-wife Adim Lundin, Bhattacharya’s son Wictor Johansson, archivist at Musikverket in Stockholm Moushumi Bhowmik, Bengali musician and researcher Sushrita Acharjee, Doctoral scholar at Jadavpur University www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001t2jj Shrewsbury Folk Festival gets underway - Aug 2023 Radio Shropshire Your behind the scenes sneak peak ahead of Shrewsbury Folk Festival. With visitors from all over the world and 500 volunteers to coordinate across the weekend, the West Mid Showground is a flurry of activity. Our reporter Johnty O'Donnell joined festival PR Director, Jo Cunningham for an access all areas tour of the festival site. 4 minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g83sh4 Sumer Is Icumen In - 1995 Michael Rosen traces the history of the folk tune, Sumer Is Icumen In. Recorded at the British Library. With music library curator Richard Chesser. 12 mins www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033k73w The Village Carol Tradition - 2017 Professor Ian Russell tells us about a carolling tradition that is upheld in around 30 villages in South Yorkshire and the Derbyshire Peak. 12 minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05rsqgs What is modern folk music? - Jan 2023 The World at One Highlights Imar's Mohsen Amini & Georgie Gage of The Deep Blue on the evolution of folk. 5 minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dxrm4b While Shepherds Watched - Dec 2023 : The hidden world of the South Yorkshire village carol sings Sunday Feature Elizabeth Alker sets out in search of lost carols, a thriving and binding social phenomenon, speaking with Dr. Russell, local punters for whom these carols serve an important social function and folk musicians like Kate Rusby, brought up on the pub carolling tradition and one of the vast array of musicians who are enabling this hidden tradition to flourish. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001thbn ________________________________________________ |
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02 Mar 24 - 07:03 PM (#4198413) Subject: RE: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: FreddyHeadey David Attenborough's Global Mixtape - 2018 Music Planet Sir David Attenborough first became nationally known as the presenter of BBC TV's Zoo Quest, a series based on expeditions to catch exotic animals for London Zoo. The programmes ran from 1954 to 1963, and in his spare time during the filming, Sir David made sound recordings of the local music. In this Music Planet Mixtape, Sir David introduces some of his favourites. His picks include sparkling harp playing from Paraguay, the chanting of his team's luggage-carriers in New Guinea and the funeral gongs of the Dyak people in Borneo. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06vz9sk I Belong to Glazgoy - 2023 Isaac Hirshow, a virtuosic Russian Jewish synagogue cantor and composer, arrived in the Gorbals from Warsaw in 1922. He was one of thousands of Jewish immigrants who landed here, just south of the river Clyde, where Yiddish voices mingled with Gaelic and Irish airs, Lithuanian laments, and Italian arias. Presenter: Dr Phil Alexander Contributors: Harvey Kaplan, Eddie Binnie, Natasha Lange Musicians: Valentina Montoya-Martinez (singer); Aref Ghorbani (singer and setar); Phil Alexander (piano and accordion); University of Glasgow Chapel Choir directed by Katy Lavinia Cooper www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n1x7 Tamara Stefanovich, Martin Hayes - 2024 Music Matters - Radio 3 Kate Molleson meets Irish fiddler Martin Hayes who shares his thoughts on the meaning of tradition, putting traditional music on the concert platform, and how the musicians who played and ate around the kitchen table of his childhood home in County Clare continue to inspire his musical life. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vv1k > 21:00 (17 minutes) Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Sarsgaard, Casting Directors - 2024 Front Row - Radio4 Rhiannon Giddens, the musician, composer and former lead singer of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, performs live with her band. She talks about her work in uncovering the real history of the banjo and writing her first solo album of original material. first item ~20minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wjgh Dan Damon looks back at the Radio Ballads & political songs - 2015 Broadcasting House www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05nsb41 > skip to 17:40 ~6 minutes Soundtrack to life - September 2023 Start the Week The singer Natalie Merchant, writer Michel Faber and teacher-cum-broadcaster Jeffrey Boakye discuss the power of music with Kirsty Wark. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ry9f Here Comes Radio 2 With A Wassail - 2017 Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine Show Amol Rajan interviewing West Countryman Les Davies and apple and cider writer Pete Brown. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04qw9ph a much better clip on Les' own page www.westcountryman.co.uk/radio2wassail audios of Les leading a wassail at the Somerset Rural Life Museum. 2013 https://soundcloud.com/glastonbury-uk/19-january-2013-wassail-at-the-somerset-rural-life-museum-with-les-davies 2014 https://soundcloud.com/glastonbury-uk/18-january-2014-wassail-at-the-rural-life-museum-with-les-davies-mbe-westcountrymancouk Here We Come a-Wassailing - 2014 The Early Music Show Lucie Skeaping introduces some of the music that has been associated with the wassailing tradition and her guests include the historian Joanna Crosby, from Essex Univeristy, who has a particular interest in apples. Download (UK Only) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vdgq4 |
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12 Apr 24 - 02:08 PM (#4200835) Subject: RE: BBC Radio Available for over a year From: FreddyHeadey A Life in Song - 2020 Art of Now Singer-songwriter Sean Cooney has written and performed many songs about real people with his award-winning folk band The Young'uns. Tackling such diverse and difficult subjects as religious homophobia, terrorism, the refugee crisis and The Troubles in Northern Ireland, where do the responsibilities of a songwriter lie? And what right do they have to broach such issues? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mcgy Anne Martin and Dr Peter Mackay on Scottish Gaelic folk songs - 2018 Woman's Hour Scottish Gaelic folk songs, the women who wrote and performed them and the bawdy references that have been lost over time. With folksinger Anne Martin and Dr Peter Mackay. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pjghc ~10 minutes > skip to 8:00 Ask the Fellows That Cut the Hay - 2010 Archive on 4 Alan Dein celebrates the centenary of his mentor George Ewart Evans, collector of Suffolk farming tales. Evans began by chatting to his neighbours over the fireside in the 1950's and transcribing stories about poaching shepherding, smuggling and ditching. ,,,Alan Dein talks to people who remember him in the village of Blaxhall and to his son Lord (Matthew) Evans and youngest daughter Susan as well as historian Owen Collins. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rv8yk see George Ewart Evans on mudcat The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff - 2022 Radio 3 Award-winning north east folk band The Young'uns - Sean Cooney and David Eagle with Jack Rutter (for Michael Hughes) present their production of The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff, recorded in front of a live audience in their hometown of Stockton-on-Tees. It's the true story of one man's journey from unemployment, through the Hunger Marches of the 1930s, the mass trespass movement and the Battle of Cable Street, to fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War. A touching and often hilarious musical adventure, its themes of war, hunger, poverty and displacement have a powerful resonance almost a hundred years on. Producer: Elizabeth Foster www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016rh2 [related programme; no music Mosley Must Fall - 2021 Drama on 4 It's 1936, and as political unrest sweeps across Europe, the spectre of fascism is looming over the East End. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011l0r] & mudcat threads 2022 mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171179 & 2021 mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170608 Beyoncé and the changing face of country music - 2024 BBC OS Conversations The latest Beyoncé song, Texas Hold ‘Em, has topped the charts in the US and UK. More significantly, however, this is the first time a black woman has gone to No. 1 in the US country music charts, provoking several talking points about diversity within the country music genre. Host James Reynolds brings together three African-American women in country music, including musician Rissi Palmer who first reached the country charts in 2007 and has had several hits since. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5b36 Guardian article & video www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/27/black-artistry-is-woven-into-the-fabric-of-country-music-it-belongs-to-everyone-beyonce-texas-hold-em-rhiannon-giddens Charles Parker: Radio Pioneer - 2019 Archive on 4 Sean Street delves into the archive of one of the most innovative and controversial BBC radio producers, reviewing Charles Parker’s work from the Radio Ballads to his sacking in 1972. Parker’s life was also a journey from poverty to Cambridge University, from a Conservative Christian to a Socialist, from a Submarine Commander to a Radio Producer. But throughout his career, two things remained constant - his dedication, often working for days without sleep, and most importantly his desire to tell the extraordinary stories of ordinary people in their own words. Producer: Andy Cartwright www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00040r6 Choral History of Britain - 2017 (1) Singing for Solidarity From protest songs and football chants, to work choirs and national anthems choral singing has been used to galvanise people around ideas, emotions and causes. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0952str (2) Singing for Pleasure the long evolution of our amateur singing tradition, from borrowed songs crudely performed in our streets and taverns, to the rise of our great Victorian choral societies and the most recent choral sensation to sweep the nation: Rock Choir. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095sy8j (3) Singing for Praise and Profit Roderick Williams shows how Britain has become a breeding ground for the world's best professional choirs and choristers, thanks to our historic cathedral choir tradition. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096j14n (4) Singing for Everyone Roderick Williams explores whether Britain has lost its singing culture and, if so, how it can be recovered. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0979f3z Brad Mehldau, François-Xavier Roth, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month - 2023 Music Matters As Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month gets under way, Music Matters learns about a new project to highlight the invaluable recorded collection of gypsy and traveller voices archived within the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. We speak to the University of East Anglia’s Dr. Hazel Marsh about the impetus to make collections, housed at the English Folk Dance and Song Society, more accessible to Gypsy and Traveller people seeking engagement with their cultural heritage, and hear from the Scottish Traveller Ian McGregor. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001md2f 7 minutes > skip to 22:50 & EFDSS page www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/12665-gypsy-and-traveller-voices-in-archives Halsway Manor - 2020 Open Country Helen Mark heads to the Quantock Hills to visit the national centre for folk arts and meet some of the people taking part in a 'Winter Warmer' celebration of music and dance. She meets musician Becki Driscoll whose track 'Cold Light' was composed in the summer house at the Manor, and asks Chief Executive Crispian Cook about the history of this residential haven for folk arts. Helen catches Moira Gutteridge for a chat just as she's about to lead a walk, and high on top of the Quantocks she speaks to Philip Comer, Chair of the 'Friends of the Quantocks' about the area, the grazing rights on common land and why it's not a good idea to feed the wild ponies. Roger and Nanette Phipps tell Helen why the spot for the Maypole is currently taken up with flower bulbs, and how according to local legend dragons may still lurk in the surrounding hills. There's also time for a spot of sword-dancing which is not as easy as it's made to look. The music is performed by Becki Driscoll, Ted Morse, Peter and Moira Gutteridge and Mary Rhodes. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dxtk Johnny Cash of Easter Cash - 2010 A chance conversation on a transatlantic flight led him to trace his family roots to Easter Cash in Fife. Sarfraz Manzoor goes in search of the Cash connection. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qll0x mudcat thread mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=127321 Folk musician Martin Simpson; movie icon Anna May Wong; and classical music leaders criticise Arts Council England - 2024 Front Row The English folk singer and guitar virtuoso Martin Simpson performs material from his new album - his 24th - Skydancers. The title track, commissioned by naturalist Chris Packham, highlights the plight of the Hen harrier. Simpson talks about his love of birds, of traditional song, of writing his own, the influence on him of American music, and a lifetime playing the guitar and banjo. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y296 11 minutes > skip to 14:20 Benjamin Britten, director Kaouther Ben Hania, music from Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell - 2024 Front Row ,,, live music from Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell, two young musicians who play with the idea of "English" folk. Their forthcoming EP, 102 Metres East, was recently recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in less than a day. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wq9j > skip to 32:00 (11 minutes) Play an Instrument - 2024 Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley Michael explores the surprising benefits of learning to play a musical instrument. It can lower inflammation, lift your mood and strengthen your memory. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y8fr Paul Theroux on Orwell; Patsy Rodenburg on training actors; musician Sam Lee - 2024 Front Row Sam Lee, Bernard Butler and James Keay perform live and talk about Sam's new album, Songdreaming. Sam draws on traditional songs to explore the richness and fragility of the natural world here in the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001x53x > skip to 29.20 12 minutes Sing - 2021 Just one more thing ,,,its unique mood-lifting ability and how singing can produce similar effects to cannabis. He speaks to Dr Daisy Fancourt to find out about her research on revealing how singing can boost your immune system and how it could help treat chronic pain. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00107bq article www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2VZPZmq2pRSMT2YHWbQdW7 mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170613 A Singer's Guide to Britain - 2019 Singer Roderick Williams gets on the road to tell the stories of Britain through our songs and our singers, old and new. (1) Song of Myself ,,,the power of song to express a sense of identity and belonging. Featuring, Billy Bragg, Fay Hield, Cuthbert Noble, Lydia Noble, Eddi Reader and Georgia Ruth. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007bvt (2) Songs of Love and Desire ,,,love songs from medieval times to the modern day ,,,how singing has, for centuries, helped Briton's through the murky waters of desire and romance. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007ksb (3) Places to Sing ,,, the social history hidden in the places we make for singing. ,,,Mason’s Court, Stratford-upon-Avon, where songs might have been shared between family and friends in the 15th century. ,,,the life of a street balladeer in the Georgian era, and hear how our present-day buskers work the passing crowds. ,,,City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds, with Professor Derek Scott, to examine how the Victorians transformed songs and singers into mass-market commodities. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007qd1 (4) We Travel with Songs ,,,songs given voice by people who have come to these islands, as visitors, as refugees and as distinct communities. Featuring, Laura Bradshaw, Billy Bragg, Alan Dein, Joseph Gnagbo, Marie, Angela Moran and Zarife. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007wd5 Songs of the Civil Rights Movement - 2018 Soul Music Actor Clarke Peters narrates this special edition to mark 50 years since the assassination of the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King on April 4th 1968. "If in doubt, pray and sing" an activist recalls how music was used as part of Dr King's non-violent resistance movement. The stories of the songs behind the Civil Rights Movement include the spirituals and freedom songs that were integral to the struggle. In the 19th century, music became a tool for protest and resistance among the enslaved peoples of the American South. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xk0tf Mudcat thread mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=163903 Stitching souls - 2020 The Documentary - BBC World Service Deep in Alabama’s Black Belt, the village of Gee’s Bend is almost an island, cut off by a loop in the Alabama River. The ferry that linked the Bend to Camden, the local county seat, was stopped by white segregationists in 1962, and not reinstated until 2006. Once enslaved plantation workers, then sharecroppers, then struggling New Deal farmers, the people of the Bend remained largely unnoticed by mainstream history, despite Martin Luther King’s visit in 1965 a few weeks before the civil rights march on Selma. But the women of Gee’s Bend have held on to their creative traditions, passed down from mother to daughter: spine-tingling gospel singing, and a unique style of bold, improvised quilting. Made from old clothes out of necessity for generations, used for insulation and burned to keep off mosquitoes, the quilts brought Gee’s Bend fame after they were “discovered” by an art collector in the 1990s and shown in major museums in Houston and New York. Maria Margaronis hears the voices of this small community and takes part with her daughter in a three-day quilting workshop led by two Gee’s Bend ladies—a space of radical trust where Black and white women of all backgrounds and all ages come together to sew, laugh, sing, tell their stories and confront their challenges and griefs. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct0x2h If you're interested in the clip of the interview with Isom Moseley, here's more : http://slaverystories.org/isom-moseley Somerset Wassail - 2019 Open Country By 1990 wassailing in apple orchards had almost died out in Somerset, but over the last thirty years the tradition has undergone a remarkable revival. As Helen Mark finds out, it's now very much alive and well - and if nothing else, provides a good excuse for a party to brighten up the dark winter nights! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002cg1 >skip to 15:30 How to invent an apple[Wassail] - 2024 The Food Chain Ruth Alexander also visits a wassail near Manchester in England to experience an ancient tradition involving cider, hanging toast on a tree and lots of singing to encourage a good apple harvest for the year ahead. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4v7y > skip to 1:20 ,,,,, 6:50 The Young'uns on Graeme Miles - 2017 My Muse - Series 2 "The terraced streets were my Grand Canyons, the shipyard cranes my redwood trees, those steelwork tips were my mountain ranges and the brickyard ponds were my seven seas". Featuring interviews with Graeme's widow Annie, and discussion and performances from esteemed musicians from the folk world, including the critically-acclaimed band The Unthanks, this programme highlights some of Graeme's finest songs. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096h773 |