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Spies;   Sir Henry Rawlinson;   Radio London;   Cromwell & The English Civil War;  Football (Gordon, Motson, World Cup '66);   The Falklands Conflict;   Procol Harum

Introduction   (01.10) Jethro Tull/Jack In The Green   (03.32) Documentary Section on Spying - Harold Kim Philby Denies Involvement with Burgess & MacLean, but confirms it later in Stasi Video   (07.50) Vivian Stanshall/Intro to episode of Sir Henry At Rawlinson End, from John Peel's Radio 1 program, 1975   (08.57) Gustav Temple & The Blades/Puddings And Pies (intro, John Peel)   (11.38) The Close of Radio London, 3.00pm, August 14, 1967:  John Peel, Paul Kaye, Kenny Everett, Phillip Birch   (16.31) Radio London Closure & Theme Tune   (18.04) TV Ad -Beefburgers   (18.30) John Arlott/The Freaker   (19.43) Sir Alec Guinness, Richard Harris, excerpts from Cromwell, (1970)   (21.21) Martyn Wyndham-Read/When The King Comes Home   (27.10) Tommy Cooper/The Doctor sketch   (28.16) Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, excerpt from The Avengers   (29.22) Kate Bush/Oh England, My Lionheart   (32.25) Station ID, with William Walton's Touch Her Soft Lips And Part  - The Toff    (32.41) Tribute to James Alexander Gordon   (33.43) Football Results Parody   (34.49) Tribute To John Motson   (36.49) World Cup '66 Report, British Pathé   (37.15) Kenneth Wolstenholme/The Final 60 Seconds of The 1966 World Cup Final   (38.32) Atomic Kitten/Football's Coming Home   (41.23) The Falklands War:  Margaret Thatcher Announces Invasion, Inside Pt Stanley after British victory, The Harrier Contribution   (48.00) Rod Stewart/Sailing   (49.28) John Ruskin Quotation, Ruskin As A Political Theorist (unknown commentator)   (51.03) Linton Kwesi Johnson/Inglan Is A Bitch   (54.44) Procol Harum/A Whiter Shade Of Pale (live, Ledreborg Castle, Denmark,  August 2006, with The Danish National Concert Orchestra & Choir)

Dedication:  In memory of Geoffrey Ogden-Browne, a true light of England

Special Thanks: Anna Clark-Doyle, Louise Watson, Greg Bordas

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The Post Office Horizon Scandal;   Herring Fishing;   Change Ringing at York Minster;   A History Cycle;   Holiday Camps;   The Keeler Affair;   Inside Anfield;   Kenneth Clark's Civilisation;   Pink Floyd's Postwar Requiem

Introduction   (01.17) Al Bowlly/Dinner For One Please, James   (03.03) Excerpt, Harry Enfield, Women, Know Your Limits   (04.28) The Bells & Bell Ringers of York Minster   (06.35) The Post Office Horizon Scandal (Ian Hislop with Robert Peston, Alan Bates)   (09.43) Ad - Postcodes   (10.10) Vashti Bunyan/Just Another Diamond Day   (11.49) Excerpt from My Word, 100th edition, 1962 - Denis Norden's She Stoops To Conquer   (17.10) Excerpts from Singing The Fishing, the third of the original eight BBC Radio Ballads, first broadcast August 16, 1960, conceived by Ewan MacColl & Charles Parker;   a modern day Yarmouth herring trawlerman   (18.31) Ewan MacColl/Shoals Of Herring   (22.19) Butlins Holiday Camps   (22.56) Jingle - Radio Caroline   (23.11) History Cycle, with Kate Bush’s England, My Lionheart:  Boudica, Athelstan & Alfred The Great, Battle of Hastings, Deposition of James II, The Glorious Revolution of 1688, The Good Friday Agreement   (30.52) Ralph McTell/England   (35.35) Excerpt from 1984 & Station ID - Newspeak   (35.54)  Horace Batchelor's Keynsham Radio Luxembourg Commercial   (36.34) The Keeler/Profumo/Ward Affair   (37.39) Mandy Rice-Davies/You Got What It Takes   (38.42) Janice Nicholls I'll Give It 5 (from Juke Box Jury)   (38.47) The Archers – Theme & Excerpt (1958 episode, ft Robert Mawdesley as Walter Gabriel)   (39.54) Theme from Time To Go Home   (40.17) Inside Anfield - Gerry & The Pacemakers/You'll Never Walk Alone, with Liverpool Football Club Fans   (42.58) Paul Cosgrave/John Clare's Poem I Am   (44.16) Dame Vera Lynn/There'll Always Be An England    (45.31) Sir Edward Elgar/Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, with A C Benson's words, Land of Hope and Glory, Last Night Of The Proms 2012 (BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Jiří Bělohlávek)   (47.03) Radio 4 Time Signal, Excerpt from the Shipping Forecast, and Sailing By (composer Ronald Binge, 1963)   (49.41) Lord Kenneth Clark, from the final episode of Civilisation (May 18, 1969)   (51.23) The Moody Blues/The Balance   (56.01) Pink Floyd/The Postwar Dream   (58.36) Radio 4 Close Down   (58.52) The Bells of York Minster (Reprise)   (59.14) John Ruskin Quotation There Is No Wealth But Life (reader, Paul Cosgrave) 

Dedications:  In memory of Viola Mary Cosgrave, Kevin Boyd, Geoffrey Ogden-Browne, Vincent Peter Petkevitch;  four true lights of England 
Special Thanks:  Anna Clark-Doyle, Louise Watson, Greg Bordas

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Dr Who;   Tony Hancock;   Football;   Grumpy Old Men;   The Leveson Inquiry;   Dunkirk;   How To Be A Chap;   Brady, Hindley, Fred & Rosemary West;   Jimmy Savile;   The BBC

Introduction   (2.29) Denis Rice/The Evenlode (lyrics Hilaire Belloc;  piano, arrangement & vocal Denis Rice)  (04.09) BBC Radiophonic Workshop; Dr Who Theme; Delia Derbyshire on electronic sound  (05.17) Dr Who, The Execution of Leela (Louise Jameson, season 15, The Invasion Of Time)   (07.03) *Catherine Tate as ‘Nan’, The Ugly Baby  (09.37) The Clash/This Is England  (13.06) Tony Hancock, Face To Face, 1960  (17.09) William Blake - narrators Iain Sinclair, Melvyn Bragg, Peter Ackroyd  (19.58) Shirley Collins/The Unquiet Grave  (23.15) Bill & Ben, Flowerpot Men (from Cabbages)  (26.02) Ad - It's A Mobile  (26.28) Jingle - Radio Nord See International  (26.37) Football: Saturday 5.00pm Theme, Results; James Alexander Gordon Tribute (Jimmy Armfield, John Murray); Funeral & Tribute, Sir Bobby Robson, Durham Cathedral (Gary Lineker)  (30.46) Jimmy Nail, Tim Healy, Kevin Whately/The Blaydon Races (anthem of the north-east, arranged for Sir Bobby by Nail, Healy & Whately)  (34.43) Station ID - Somerset  (34.32) Adge Cutler & The Wurzels/Drink Up Thee Zoyder  (35.44) *Grumpy Old Men At Christmas (Geoffrey Palmer, Rick Wakeman, Andrew Marr, John Sergeant, Rick Stein, Arthur Smith, Elliott Gould, Rory McGrath, Will Self, Jeremy Clarkson, John O’Farrell, Tony Hawks)  (40.06) Henry Priestman/Old  (42.56) Brian Eno/Deep Blue Day  (44.04) The Leveson Inquiry:  Principal Witnesses, Kate McCann, Sally Dowler, Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson (questioning The Sun’s Piers Morgan), Heather Mills (Lady McCartney), JK Rowling, Sienna Miller, Steve Coogan, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Paxman, Charlotte Church, James & Rupert Murdoch  (52.05) Graham Parker & The Rumour/Nixon's Rules  (54.52) Ad - Babycham  (55.32) Antiques Roadshow: The Angel Of The North, by Antony Gormley  (58.42) Excerpt from Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews)  

(1.00.14) Geoffrey Burgon/Brideshead Revisited Theme  (1.01.01) Excerpt from Dunkirk: A Sergeant's Story, a true account by Sgt Alfred Embleton of a week on Dunkirk beach (reader, Paul Cosgrave - full story, search Youtube)  (1.04.22) Clifford T Ward/A Day To Myself  (1.08.55) Captain Sir Tom Moore  (1.12.51) Station ID - Basil & Sybil Fawlty  (1.13.15) Gustav Temple, Editor, The Chap Magazine (ft Mr B)  (1.16.14) *Mr B/Damn It, It Feels Good To Be A Chap  (1.17.54) Paul Cosgrave/Musing by Anthony Trollope on The Way We Live Now   (1.18.58) *Ian Brady, Myra Hindley, Fred & Rose West, with Julian Bream/Lachrimae  (1.21.18) Jingle - Radio London  (1.21.39)   Ad - The Parker Lady (Penelope Keith)  (1.22.23) *The BBC:  Jimmy Savile, Bill Oddie, Andrew Gilligan, W1A intro & meeting  (1.32.55) Melvyn Bragg/English Into Space (1.34.38) Monty Python's Flying Circus/Woody Words  (1.35.49) David Attenborough  (1.37.08) Ray Davies/Is There Life After Breakfast

Dedications:   In memory of Viola Mary Cosgrave, Kevin Boyd, Geoffrey Ogden-Browne, Vincent Peter Petkevitch;  four true lights of England

Special Thanks: Anna Clark-Doyle, Louise Watson, Greg Bordas

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A Christmas Pot Pourri

Ho Ho Ho, and a warm welcome to the Wavelength Christmas Pot Pourri Special.  It's a random jumble of silent nights in several languages, grumpy old men moaning and two hours of Christmas music from around the world - the essential soundtrack, in fact, to your Christmas cooking and consumption.  

Wavelength, and all of us here at Sapphire FM, wish you, your family and friends the happiest of Christmases.

Playlist

(00.00.00) Intro    (00.00.18) The Big Moon/The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year  (00.03.04) The Original 'Grumpy Old Men at Christmas'/Selected Highlights, drizzled liberally throughout the program    (00.03.44) Wizzard/I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day  (00.08.16) Fiona Apple & Friend/Trump's Nuts Roasting On An Open Fire  (00.09.56) Terry Robb & John Fahey/Christmas Times A-Coming_Rudolph  (00.12.59) Mike Oldfield/Silent Night  (00.15.56) Kinky Friedman(live at McCabe's)_Tom Waits/Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis  (00.21.01) The Pretenders/2000 Miles   (00.24.17) The Festival Of Nine Lessons & Carols (section, 1993)   (00.27.03) Paul Simon/Getting Ready For Christmas  (00.31.03) The Sydney Symphony Orchestra & NSW Conservatorium Choir/Orana (Carol Of The Birds)   (00.32.45) Ryuichi Sakamoto/Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence   (00.36.16) Steeleye Span/Gaudete  (00.39.12) John Fahey & Terry Robb/Let It Snow_Winter Wonderland   (00.42.10) Kathematics/Ode To Santa  (00.43.47) Henry Priestman's Audio Christmas Card   (00.46.13) Enya/Oíche Chiúin  (00.48.58) Coldplay/Christmas Lights_(00.52.51)Fireworks   (00.53.18) SSO & Choir/Three Drovers   (00.55.24) Christine Anu/My Island Christmas  (00.58.34) Annie Lennox/Silent Night

(01.02.17) Bob Dylan/'Twas The Night Before Christmas  (01.06.23)  Rodriguez/'Cause   (01.11.05) Joni Mitchell/River  (01.15.00) A Prague Policeman  Playing Piano, Christmas 2013   (01.15.33) The Pogues (ft Kirsty MacColl)/Fairytale Of New York   (01.19.49) Monty Python/Alternative Christmas In Heaven   (01.23.15) Sia/Santa's Coming For Us   (01.27.23) Tom Lehrer/A Christmas Carol   (01.29.53) Fairuz/فيروز عيد الليل (Silent Night)   (01.33.37) SSO & Choir/Merry Christmas  (01.35.15) Iggy Pop/White Christmas   (01.38.51) John Cooper-Clarke/Clarkie's Christmas Crackers   (01.39.40) Jona Lewie/Stop The Cavalry   (01.43.24) The Tuba Christmas Concert (conclusion), Rockefeller Center, 2013   (01.44.11) Choir Of King's College, Cambridge/Once In Royal David's City (opening of the Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols, 2017)   (01.47.04) Tom Waits/Silent Night  (01.48.39)  Christmas Message from the crew of Apollo 8, 1968   (01.50.51) John Lennon/Happy Christmas (War Is Over)   (01.54.12) Mary Gauthier/Mercy Now

Additional Incidental Music

JS Bach/Cantata 143 (perf. The Leonhardt Consort, cond Gustav Leonhardt);
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina/Kyrie from Missa Aeterna Christi Munera (perf.       Oxford Camerata, cond. Jeremy Summerly);   Jose Feliciano/Feliz Navidad

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Introduction

People of my generation are increasingly horrified at how quickly a stable, postwar, rules-based order has been changed into something that looks rather like anarchy.

Here in Australia, political choices are worryingly limited and uninspiring;  America at this time appears hardly to be working on any level at all, and certainly not politically;  Russia has become a dangerous dictatorship, where journalists are routinely done away with for questioning official policy.  Elsewhere, AI and social media permit politicians, if they wish, to essentially make up their own truth on the run.  Many do and objective, independent reporting of correctly sourced & verified facts is becoming a thing of the past. 

But hold on a minute.  Let's not forget that since the late 1950s, musicians and composers have been writing songs warning about this deteriorating situation.  Now, Wavelength's Politico Pourri brings them all together.    

Views expressed in this program, which includes adult content & language, are those of the producer and artists alone and reflect no formal Sapphire FM position.

Playlist

(00.00.10) Intro  (00.03.12) Buffy Sainte-Marie/The Big Ones Get Away  (00.06.50) Billy Bragg/Red To Blue  (00.10.05) Bobi Wine/Time Bomb Corruption  (00.14.27) Blaze Foley/Election Day  00.17.00) Fun Boy Three & The Specials/The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum  (00.19.45) Peter Gabriel/Biko  (00.26.04) Joni Mitchell/The Fiddle And The Drum  (00.30.21) Parody Project/Confounds The Science  (00.33.17) The 'SS-Musikzug' of the SS Standarte 42 & Choir/Die Fahne Hoch (Horst Wessel Drinking Song, with voice inserts from D Trump & A Hitler)   (00.36.41) Sacha Baron Cohen (as Ali G)/Donald Trump Interview  (00.38.21) Noam Chomsky/On Trump & Republican Party Directions(from Democracy Now)  (00.41.29) Fiona Apple/Tiny Hands  (00.45.33) Billy Bragg/Full English Brexit  (00.49.29) Randy Newman/Putin  (00.53.06) Noam Chomsky/On Russian Election Interference (from Democracy Now)  (00.55.04) David Johansen/Sinking Ship

(01.03.34) Boomtown Rats/Banana Republic  (01.06.54) Fascinating Aïda/So Sorry, Scotland  (01.10.52) Lindisfarne/Bring Down The Government  (01.12.17) Eddy Kenzo/Mbakooye (I'm Fed Up With Them - in support of Uganda's Bobi Wine)   (01.17.57) Charlie Chaplin & Hans Zimmer/The Barber's Speech from The Great  Dictator  (01.21.47) Billy Bragg/Scousers Never Buy The Sun  (01.25.21) Renft/Pronounce The Prohibition (Stasi Officer, Ruth Oelschlägel, informing the band that they "no longer existed")  (01.25.54) Buffy Sainte-Marie/Look At The Facts  (01.28.02) Tim Wilson/But I Could Be Wrong  (01.33.16) Pikkardiyska Tertsia/Lament (for those who died in the Maidan in Kiev, Feb 20, 2014)  (01.37.05) Okean Elzy/Hе Tвоя Bойна (Not Your War)  (01.41.25) Flanagan & Allen/Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler  (01.42.49) Dame Vera Lynn/We'll Meet Again  (01.45.45) Muse/Ruled By Secrecy  (01.50.25) Takun J/They Lie To Us  (01.54.52) Pussy Riot/Mother Of God, Get Rid Of Putin  (01.56.42) Neil Young/Flags Of Freedom 

(02.00.24) Roger Waters, on war (from his address to the UNSC, Feb 17, 2025)  (02.01.54) Pink Floyd/The Postwar Dream  (02.04.23) Jimmy Nail/Big River  (02.10.17) Chumbawamba/In Memoriam, Margaret Thatcher  (02.19.58) Tom Ballard & The Tonightly Crew/Do Your Fucking Job  (02.21.19) Scott Morrison/That's Not My Job

Incidental music:  Thunderclap Newman/Something In The Air;  Lee 'Scratch' Perry/I Am A Psychiatrist   

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This program was made to mark the 100th edition of my (then) weekly live music show, Wavelength, and features a selection of some of my very favourite recordings.

The weekly live Wavelength program has now ceased but I'm still recording similar shows for these on demand pages.  They follow a very similar format (album tracks, new music, landmarks and covers) and I'm uploading them as often as possible.  Look for Wavelength World Of Music programs in the title bars.  I do hope you enjoy this selection.   

Playlist

(00.00.00) Intro  (00.01.06) Charlotte Gainsbourg/Just Like A Woman    (00.05.10) Leon Russell/In The Jailhouse Now   (00.07.53) Maple Glider/Friend
(00.12.08) The Move/Flowers In The Rain   (00.14.19) Yannis Markopoulos/Who Pays The Ferryman?   (00.16.53) Francoise Hardy/Times Passing By   (00.19.12) Billy Paul/Your Song   (00.24.17) Lisa Mitchell/Land Beyond The Front Door   (00.26.52) The Who/The Kids Are Alright   (00.29.53) Rachael Yamagata/Over And Over   (00.35.10) Gerry Rafferty/Hollywood   (00.40.32) Joni Mitchell/Both Sides Now   (00.45.03) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan-Adagietto, Mahler's 5th Symphony   (00.48.42) Rupert's People/Reflections of Charlie Brown   (00.51.39) Ambrose & His Orchestra (ft Elsie Carlisle)/The Clouds Will Soon Roll By   (00.54.53) Bob Dylan/Positively Fourth St   (00.58.58) Sally Oldfield/You Set My Gypsy Blood Free  

(01.02.26) Michael Nesmith/Here I Am   (01.05.38) School  Of Seven Bells/Music Takes Me   (01.10.25) Richard Clapton/   (01.13.44) Pale Honey/Desert   (01.18.40) Pink Floyd/Wish You Were Here (re-united, live at Live 8)   (01.23.02)  Ennio Morricone/On Earth As It Is In Heaven (from the soundtrack of The Mission)   (01.01.26) Nina Simone/Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues   (01.31.20)  Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel/All The Men Are Hungry   (01.36.01) Esther Ofarim/In The Morning Of My Life (ft Bee Gees)   (01.39.24) Fun Boy Three & The Specials/The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum   (01.42.05) Fiona Apple/Across The Universe   (01.46.18) Weather Report/Third Stone From The Sun (ft Jaco Pastorius, live in Offen)   (01.51.09) Elton John/Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters  (01.56.00) Buffy Sainte-Marie/The Big Ones Get Away   (01.59.53) Clifford T Ward/Home Thoughts From Abroad   

(02.03.08) Barbara Dickson OBE/Caravans  (02.06.30) Tom Waits/The Heart Of Saturday Night   (02.10.13) Men I Trust/Offertorio (ft Nicolas)   (02.12.10) Still Corners/The Trip   (02.18.12) Jerry Jeff Walker/Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother   (02.22.20) Karine Polwart/Follow The Heron Home   (02.25.36) The Jesus And Mary Chain/April Skies (02.29.28) Marissa Nadler/All The Colors Of The Dark   (02.33.33) Jim Keays/Boy From The Stars   (02.37.40) Mikis Theodorakis/Theme From Serpico  (02.40.59) Aldous Harding/Imagining My Man   (02.45.00) The Outlaws/Ohio   (02.49.54) Melanie Safka/It Don't Matter Now   (02.52.58) Procol Harum/A Whiter Shade Of Pale (live, Ledreborg Castle, Denmark, August 2006).

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Playlist

This program focuses on the life and work of Merimbula composer and performer, Corinne Gibbons, who boasts an international reputation.  It takes the form of a beach-side conversation with Corinne, and we look closely at her 2009 album Melt.

(00.00) Introductions    (05.33) Speak Of The North    (15.12) Silver Flame     (23.44) Switchoff    (32.27) Precious Girl    (44.33) One Voice    (54.52) Life Goes    
(01.10.32) Good Days    (01.17.35) Silty Wine    (01.25.58) Rise    (01.34.28) Melt    (01.41.25)  How To Find Corinne

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Kathleen Ferrier - A Tribute 

October 8 marks the anniversary of the death of the great English contralto singer, Kathleen Ferrier, in 1953.

She achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar.  Her death from cancer, at the height of her fame, was a profound shock to the musical world and particularly to the general public, which was kept in ignorance of the nature of her illness until after her death.

This tribute program includes reflections from Rob Paul, some of Ferrier's best known recordings, and Matthew Parris's program on Ferrier for the BBC series Great Lives.

Playlist

(00.00.00) Introduction   (00.00.33) Kathleen Ferrier/Blow The Wind Southerly   (00.03.28) Matthew Parris in discussion with Sue MacGregor and Christopher Fifield (BBC Radio 4 'Great Lives')   

(00.30.19) Introduction & Kathleen Ferrier in the (00.31.49) full male part from Gluck's Orfeo Ed Euridice.

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Introduction

Simply put, Irish music and spoken word are incomparable.  Music and speech weave together into textures both refreshingly abrasive and silky smooth with an energy which, for Irish people, is like the air they breathe.

Textures to beguile you, make you laugh and always to charm you.  Sometimes, they will confront you.

Intentionally impressionistic in style, this program seeks to feel these qualities rather than narrate them.  It naturally contains a lot of folk music but it’s not all traditional - we’ll hear classical, progressive and jazz performances, and plenty of rock and instrumental music too.

It's a mark of the greatness of Irish music that despite 700 years of authoritarian and often brutal British repression, a great Irish singer can still sing an English song as willingly and evocatively as Luke Kelly sings The Unquiet Grave.

Special Thanks:   

Anna Clark-Doyle, English voiceovers;  Rory Cosgrave, Irish voiceovers, research;  Stephanie Batt, for taking me to so many folk music sessions in 1960s Dublin;  Pat Collins, director of Song Of Granite;  my Dad, an Irishman, who planted the seeds when I was 12 by giving me the The Clancy Brothers' & Tommy Makem's  Hearty & Hellish.

Playlist

Introduction:  Seóirse Bodley/1st Movement, Symphony#2, (I Have Loved The Lands Of Ireland, BBC Phil Orch, cond. Bryden Thomson);  (00.07) Richard Harris/Under Ben Bulben (Pt1);  (01.00) Kevin Flanagan/Mise Éire (poem, Pádraic Pearse)  (02.20) Mary Black/Bright Blue Rose (live, Royal Albert Hall - guitar, Declan Sinnot)  (06.52) Luka Bloom/Exploring The Blue  (10.42) Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh/An Mhaighdean Mhara  (14.18) U2/Sunday Bloody Sunday  (18.53) Linley Hamilton/Love Dance  (22.52) Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd/The Beach Scene, Calvary  (24.33) Sinéad O'Connor/Báidín Fheilimí  (27.45) Brendan Behan/The Auld Triangle  (29.42) Adrian Dunbar, on his documentary Brendan Behan - The Roaring Boy (RTE, 1/12/14)  (31.42) The Cranberries/Dreams  (36.03) Phil Coulter/The Fields Of Athenry  (39.19) The Saw Doctors/Joyce Country Ceili Band  (44.12) Dolores Keane (ft. De Dannan)/Galway Bay  (47.32) Thin Lizzy/Whiskey In The Jar  (53.01) Enya/Shepherd Moons  (54.35) Brendan Gleeson, Kelly Reilly/The Forgiveness Scene,  Calvary  (55.55) The Pogues/Summer In Siam  (59.48) Luke Kelly/The Unquiet Grave

(01.05.45) Voces8 (ft. Sibéal)/Carrickfergus  (01.10.04) The Dubliners/Rising Of The Moon  (01.3.12) Finbar Furey/Nearer My God To Thee  (01.16.20) Paul Cosgrave/Hope And History (stanza from Seamus Heaney's Doubletake)  (01.16.20) Boomtown Rats/Banana Republic  (01.19.45) Judy Collins/The Patriot Game  (01.23.40) Pecker Dunne/McAlpine's Fusiliers  (01.26.55) Mary Black/The Fog In Monterey  (01.29.55) The Answer/On And On  (01.33.28) Seóirse Bodley/2nd Movement, Symph #1 for Chamber Orchestra, RTE Symph Orch, cond. Robert Houlihan  (01.38.00) Sinéad O'Connor ft The Chieftains/The Foggy Dew  (01.43.20) Pete St John, Gay Byrne, Late Late Show, RTE  (01.45.43) The Dubliners/Dublin In The Rare Ould Times  (01.50.15) Excerpt, Michael Collins  (01.50.55) Fiona Gregory/Ballad Of Michael Collins  (01.55.45) Ralph McTell/From Clare To Here  (01.59.50) De Dannan/The Rights Of Man_Pride Of Petravore  (02.03.15) Wolfe Tones/Bold Robert Emmett  (02.06.25) Pat Collins on Song Of Granite  (02.07.10) Joe Heaney/The Galway Shawl  (02.10.10) Seamus Heaney/Bogland (ft Liam Óg O'Flynn, Uilleann Pipes/Ardaí Chuain)    

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Introduction

Simply put, Irish music and spoken word are incomparable.  Music and speech weave together into textures both refreshingly abrasive and silky smooth with an energy which, for Irish people, is like the air they breathe.

Textures to beguile you, make you laugh and always to charm you.  Sometimes, they will confront you.

Intentionally impressionistic in style, this program seeks to feel these qualities rather than narrate them.  It naturally contains a lot of folk music but it’s not all traditional - we’ll hear classical, progressive and jazz performances, and plenty of rock and instrumental music too.

It's a mark of the greatness of Irish music that despite 700 years of authoritarian and often brutal British repression, a great Irish singer can still sing an English song as willingly and evocatively as Luke Kelly sings The Unquiet Grave.

Welcome to Part 2 of Éire, An Audio Portrait.

Special Thanks:   

Anna Clark-Doyle, English voiceovers;  Rory Cosgrave, Irish voiceovers, research;  Stephanie Batt, for taking me to so many folk music sessions in 1960s Dublin;  Pat Collins, director of Song Of Granite;  my Dad, an Irishman, who planted the seeds when I was 12 by giving me the The Clancy Brothers' & Tommy Makem's  Hearty & Hellish.

Playlist

(00.14) Pól Ó Ceannabháin/Bean an Leanna (from the film soundtrack, Song Of Granite)  (02.10) Richard Harris/Too Many Saviours On My Cross  (08.28) Tamalin/Gort na Saileán (Down By The Salley Gardens)  (13.23) Brendan Behan, on the 1916 Easter Rising  (14.57) Brendan Behan/Bonfire On The Border  (16.19) Eleanor McEvoy/A Woman's Heart (live, Blue Mountains Music Festival 2010, Australia)  (20.25) Joe Duffy on James Connolly  (21.02) The Wolfe Tones/James Connolly  (23.45) Sean Carpio/High Lady (live, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, 2012)  (28.27) Sibéal Ní Chasaide/Mise Éire (arranged by Patrick Cassidy)  (32.23) Pete St John & Gay Byrne, RTE, The Late Late Show  (34.20) Pete St John/Waltzing On Borrowed Time (live, aged 87, President Higgins' Garden Party, Áras and Uachtaráin, 21/6/19)  (38.22) Spontaneous singing of The Parting Glass after St John's funeral, Beaumont House, Dublin, 2/4/22  (38.49) Lauren Kinsella & the Snowpoet Jazz Ensemble/Wool, Cotton, Lace & Snow (live, The Cockpit, for Sligo Jazz Festival, 2021)  (43.12) Gary Moore/Still Got The Blues  (47.16) Dr Strangely Strange/When Adam Delved  (49.25) The Chieftains/Brian Boru's March  (49.25) William Butler Yeats/The Lake Isle Of Innisfree  (51.01) Richard Harris/Under Ben Bulben (Pt2)  (51.15) Van Morrison/Into The Mystic  (54.20) The Christians/Words (melody adapted from the Seán Ó Riada's refrain Mná na hÉireann)  (01.01.07) Richard Harris/Under Ben Bulben (Pt3)  (01.01.25) Bagatelle/Summer In Dublin  (01.05.37) Seán Ó Riada/Mise Éire (RTE Orch, cond. Robert Houlihan)  (01.07.26) Richard Harris/Under Ben Bulben (Pt1)

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