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Introduction

This program showcases the English-speaking folk music I've experienced  in my lifetime.  When I was a young man in England, the '60s UK folk resurgence was in full swing.   My friends and I greatly enjoyed the 400 year old 'Blue Boar' pub, just outside Newbury on the Berkshire Downs.  Oliver Cromwell stayed there the night before the first Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War, on September 19th/20th, 1643.  There's a Civil War song from Martyn Wyndham-Read in the second hour of this program.

On Friday and Saturday nights, we'd gather there and sing along with local folk singers Brian Howe and Mike Campbell-Cole;  and on Sunday evenings, we'd head to the Waggon & Horses, in Newbury, for the weekly Folk Club session.  My lifelong love of folk music was born in these experiences, and it's a pleasure to share with you here the songs I've been fortunate to acquire over many years.

Playlist

Introduction   (01.30) Paul Brady/Arthur McBride (check Tiernan McBride's 1977 film, Youtube)  (08.14) Kate Wolf/September Song  (12.15) Waterson 
Carthy/Stars In My Crown  (15.13) Bob Dylan/Girl From The North Country  (18.10) Declan Affley/Carrickfergus   (21.56) James Fagan & Nancy Kerr/Banks Of The Condamine  (25.33) Kathryn Tickell/Lads Of Alnwick  (31.22) Ewan MacColl/Shoals Of Herring (from 'The Radio Ballads')  (35.11) Joan Baez/Joe Hill (live, Woodstock, 1969)  (37.46) Project Smok/Woodlands Drive_Arisaig (recorded for BBC Radio Scotland, Sept 2020)  (42.16) Ian & Sylvia (Tyson)/Four Strong Winds (live, CBC TV, 1986)  (46.43) Richard Fariña/Birmingham Sunday  (50.41) Luke Kelly/The Rising Of The Moon  (53.49) The Wilson Family/The Plains Of Waterloo  (56.49) Christine Wheeler/When The Children Come Home   

(01.02.05) Gordon Lightfoot/Early Morning Rain  (01.05.15) Karine Polwart/Follow The Heron  (01.08.13) Martyn Wyndham-Read/When The King Comes Home  (01.11.00) Joe Hutton/Scottish Air  (01.13.00) Dave de Hugard/Across The Western Plains  (01.17.00) Steeleye Span/Thomas The Rhymer  (01.20.00) The Fagans/Dark As The Dungeon   (01.25.00) The Dubliners/Dublin In The Rare Ould Times  (01.32.49) Alistair Hulett/He Fades Away (live, Blue Mntns Music Festival)  (01.37.05) Shirley Collins/The Unquiet Grave  (01.40.25) The Chieftains/Brian Boru's March  (01.43.33) Liam Clancy & Tommy Makem/October Winds  (01.46.02) Nic Jones/Ten Thousand Miles (John Peel [session #7], July 8, 1976)  (01.49.15) Dolores Keane/My Own Dear Galway Bay  (01.52.18) Incredible String Band/Mercy I Cry, City  (01.54.55) The Albion Band/The Green Mist (vocals, Cathy Lesurf)   

(02.02.12) Martyn Wyndham-Read/In Memory Of Bill (live, New Ivanhoe Hotel, Blackheath, March 3, 2011)  (02.06.09) Ramblin' Jack Elliott/Hard Travellin' (Live, Tris Elies Winebar, Katoomba, March 26, 1999)  (02.10.30) American Civil War Medley (from Ken Burns's 'The Civil War'):  Shelby Foote/Intro - John Hartford/Lorena - Kathy Mattea/The Vacant Chair - Ken Burns/Commentary  Jay Ungar/Ashokan Farewell  (02.20.05) Dave Cohen/I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning  (02.22.22) Phil Ochs/There But For Fortune  (02.24.55) Eva Cassidy/Tall Trees In Georgia  (02.28.30) Dave Loggins/Wonderin' As The Days Go By  (02.32.15) Documentary - Collits's Inn, Hartley:  A conversation with (2012) owner, Col MacDonald, with music from The Dubliners (Fields Of Athenry), Dave de Hugard (Across The Western Plains), Paragon Café (Currency Lass) & Project Smok (Mountain Road);  poetry read by Peter O'Shaughnessy (Dame Mary Gilmour's 'Old Botany Bay')   (03.01.25) AL 'Bert' Lloyd/The Cocky From Bungaree

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A conversation with Richard Cox, great-great-grandson of William Cox, who built the first road over Australia's Blue Mountains, from Sydney to Bathurst.

Cox built the road with a team of 30 hand-picked convicts, whom he treated well.  Cox shared their difficult conditions and most of the convicts received their freedom, in one form or another, following the road's completion.

A full account of this remarkable undertaking can be found in Richard Cox's book, 'William Cox:  Blue Mountains Road Builder and Pastoralist' (Rosenberg Publishing). 

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Playlist

(01.54) Teddy Afro/Ethiopia   (06.24) Tony Allen & Friends/African Man (instrumental)   (11.30) Amazones d'Afrique/Dombolo   (14.47) Les Ambassadeurs (ft Salif Keita)/Tounkan   (21.24) Aşa/Fire On The Mountain   (25.57) Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck/Mbassou Niang (live at Soir​é​e S​é​n​é​galaise, 2012)   (29.30) Becca/Daa Ke Daa   (32.33) The Bhundu Boys/Satan In Gaporadzwe   (37.22) Afel Bocoum & Damon Albarn/Bamako (live in Bamako)   (42.34) Johnny Clegg & Savuka/Asimbonanga   (47.34) Colourful Will/Pose For The Photo   (51.24) Crystal 
Axis/Leopold   (55.57) Toumani Diabate & His Symmetric Orchestra/Single (live, Womadelaide, 2008)   (1.00.45) Manu Dibangu/Soul Makossa   (1.04.57) Lucky Dube/War And Crime   (1.09.32) Efya/Best In Me   (1.13.03) Cesaria Evora/Cabo Verde Terra Estimada   (1.17.36) Brenda Fassie/Good Black Woman   (1.23.11) Aline Frazao/O Que Ela Quer   (1.27.58) Peter Gabriel/Biko   (1.32.55) Karyna Gomes/Amor Livre (live, Hotel Tembo, Zanzibar, Bar Sauti Za Busara Festival, 2017)   (1.37.58) Sona Jobarteh/Gambia   (1.43.24) Kiya Kassahun/Besak Bechawata   (1.47.38) Dr Kenneth Kaunda/Tiyende Pomodzi   (1.50.28) Salif Keita/Africa   (1.56.10) Eddy Kenzo/Mbakooye (in support of Bobi Wine)   (2.01.48) Kezita/Freedom We Need   (2.05.50) Cheb Khaled/C'est La Vie

   Sincere thanks:  
   Tussle Sigauke - African readings
   Anna Clark-Doyle - voice-overs, production support
   Rory Cosgrave - program & music research

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Playlist

(01.04) Angelique Kidjo/Sedjedo   (03.55) Fela Kuti/Lady (radio edit)   (09.39) Ladysmith Black Mambazzo (ft Salif Keita)/United We Stand   (14.31) Ismaël Lô/Africa   (19.27) Miriam  Makeba/Malaika   (24.43) Malouma/Maghrour   (28.40) Thomas Mapfumo/Vanhu Vatema   (35.03) Chiwoniso Maraire/Everyone's Child   (38.41) Hugh Masekela/Grazin' In The Grass (instrumental)   (41.13) Oliver Mtukudzi/Neria   (45.43) Youssou N'dour/Gainde   (50.58) Nubian Li/Nakazzi   (55.28) Koffi Olomide/Tshou, Tshou, Tshou   (1.00.55) Osibisa/The Dawn  (1.08.09) The Pan African Orchestra/Yaa Yaa Kole (instrumental)   (1.12.42) Papa Wemba/Le Voyageur   (1.16.45) Oumou Sangare/Maladon   (1.20.45) Joss Stone with PCK Mother (live in Liberia, Joss Stone's Total World Tour, 2014-19)   (1.25.09) The Super Rail Band de Bamako/Fourou Kolon   (1.29.34) System Tazvida & The Chazezesa Challengers/Mushandi Ndi Mambo   (1.34.30) Ali Ibrahim 'Ali Farka'Touré/Lobo   (1.39.34) Rokia Traore/Beautiful Africa   (1.43.02) The Justin Vali Trio/Laiana (live, Madagascar, instrumental)   (1.48.49) The Wahapahapa Band/Lijojo (live, Dar Es Salaam)   (1.58.26) George Weah/Senatorial Election Song   (2.02.34) Bobi Wine & Nubian Li/Adam Ne Kaawa   (2.07.23) Yegna/Taytu   (2.12.20) Zahara/Nyamezela   (2.19.03) Zap Mama/Bandy Bandy

Sincere thanks:  
   Tussle Sigauke - African readings
   Anna Clark-Doyle - voice-overs, production support
   Rory Cosgrave - program & music research

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Playlist

Introduction    (01.38) Feist/Of Womankind ('Multitudes')   (05.12) Kevin Morby/Like A Flower ('Music From Montana Story')   (08.25) Jen Cloher/Harakeke ('I Am The River The River Is Me')   (12.39) Rickie Lee Jones/Just In Time ('Pieces Of Treasure')   (15.39) Ringo Starr/Rewind Forward (title track)   (20.03) Arlo Parks/Pegasus (ft. Phoebe Bridgers, 'My Soft Machine')    (23.04) Explosions In The Sky/Moving On ('End')  (27.30) Tia Gostelow/Spring To Life ('Head Noise')   (29.56) Blur/Russian Strings (live BBC Radio concert, 'The Ballad Of Darren')  (33.16) Låpsley/Lifeline ('Cautionary Tales Of Youth')   (37.31) The National/This Isn't Helping (ft. Phoebe Bridgers, 'First Two Pages Of Frankenstein'   (41.22) The Pretenders/Let The Sun Come ('Relentless')   (45.09) Smashing Pumpkins/That Which Animates The Spirit ('Atum Act 3')   (49.03)Julie Byrne/Portrait Of A Clear Day ('The Greater Wings')   (52.17) Bruce Coburn/Haiku ('O Sun O Moon')   (56.08) Def Leppard & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Paper Sun ('Drastic Symphonies')   (01.01.58) Body Type/Miss The World ('Expired Candy')   (01.04.46) Everything But The Girl/No One Knows We're Dancing ('Fuse')   (01.08.51) Yes/Living Out Their Dream (' Mirror To The Sky')   (01.13.31) Cowboy Junkies/Blue Sky ('Such Ferocious Beauty')   (01.17.37) John Cale/Night Crawling ('Mercy')  (01.22.25) Agnetha Fältskog/Where Do We Go From Here ('A Plus')   (01.25.34) Lana Del Rey/Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard (title track)   (01.30.07) Gorillaz/New Gold (ft Tame Impala & Bootie Brown, 'Cracker Island')   (01.34.38) Natalaie Merchant/Come On Aphrodite (ft Abena Koomson Davis, 'Keep Your Courage')   (01.39.51) Jethro Tull/Ginnungagap ('RökFlöte')   (01.43.35) Sparks/The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (title track)   (01.46.29) Fever Ray/Carbon Dioxide ('Radical Romantics')   (01.53.02) Depeche Mode/Wagging Tongue ('Memento Mori')   (01.56.27) Rhiannon Giddens/You're The One (title track)  (01.59.50) Government Mule/Head Full Of Thunder ('Peace...Like A River')   (02.04.16) Dream Wife/Social Lubrication (title track)   (02.07.41) The Chemical Brothers/Fountains ('For That Beautiful Feeling')   (02.11.25) Ben Harper/Trying Not To Fall In Love With You ('Wide Open Light')   (02.14.52)  Half Moon Run/Salt (title track)   (02.19.49) Portugal. The Man/Anxiety_Clarity (ft Paul Williams, 'Chris Black Changed My Life')   (02.25.29) Robyn Martin/Milk And Honey (title track)   (02.28.37) Public Image Ltd/Penge ('End Of World')   (02.31.39) PJ Harvey/I Inside The Old I Dying ('I Inside The Old Year Dying')   (02.34.38) Paul Simon/Wait ('Seven Psalms')   (02.39.05) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark/Bauhaus Staircase (title track)  (02.42.55) Slowdive/Prayer Remembered ('Everything Is Alive')   (02.47.19) Sigur Rós/Klettur ('Átta')   (02.53.38) Jessie Ware/Free Yourself ('That Feels Good')   (02.57.28) The Rolling Stones/Sweet Sounds Of Heaven (ft Lady Gaga, 'Hackney Diamonds')   (03.06.08) Ryuichi Sakamoto/20220302 ('12')  (03.08.41) Susanne Sundfør/Blómi (title track)   (03.13.32) Lucinda Williams/New York Comeback ('Stories From A Rock 'N Roll Heart')   (03.17.40) Maple Glider/Don't Kiss Me ('I Get Into Trouble')   (03.21.31) Young Fathers/Tell Somebody ('Heavy Heavy')   (03.27.07) Pat Metheny/Blue In Green (ft Charlie Haden bass, 'Dream Box' [live version])   (03.33.23) Emiliana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra/Mikos ('Racing The Storm')   (03.36.50) Steven Wilson/Actual Brutal Facts ('The Harmony Codex')   (03.41.48) Roger Waters/Time ('Dark Side Of The Moon - Redux')

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 Playlist
Following their two Wembley Stadium concerts, for their 2023 reunion, Blur performed a smaller, more intimate concert at the BBC Radio Theatre, July 18, 2023, recording a mix of older hits and new album tracks.
 
(00.00) Intro   (01.03) St Charles Square    (05.06) Popscene    (08.51) Beetlebum    (14.32) Villa Rosie    (19.24) Coffee And TV    (25.07) Out Of Time    (29.12) Russian Strings  (32.48) Girls And Boys    (38.00) Parklife    (41.08) Advert    (44.55) Tender   (51.30) The Narcissist   (56.40) This Is A Low 

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Playlist

(09.06) We’re All In This Together  (from ‘Awake Is The New Sleep’, 2005)   

(18.46) I Love Pop Music  (from ‘The Rebirth Of Venus’, 2009)  

(24.06) Slow Down  (from ‘I’m Fun’, 2022)   

(30.25) Like This Or Like That  (from ‘I’m Fun’, 2022)   

(38.09) Whatever It Is  (from ‘Awake Is The New Sleep’, 2005)

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This program is a collage of Australian & British music, poetry, letters & diary entries.   The film passages come from Stanley Kubrick's 'Paths Of Glory' (1957) and Richard Attenborough's 'Oh! What A Lovely War' (1969). 

Sincere thanks to Anna Clark-Doyle, Garry Morley and Michael Ryan for their polished and professional assistance.   
 
Production & Audio Design by Rob Paul.
 
Lest we forget.
RP, 25/4/23

 Audio

(00.00.00) The Merry Wives of Windsor/The Green Fields Of France  (00.00.19) Spoken Film Passage  (00.00.27) Reinald Werrenrath/Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag   (00.02.24) Poem - Where Honour Is Due (selected stanzas), by Australian War Poet, John Sandes (aka 'Oriel'), reader Michael Ryan   (00.03.21) Spoken Film Passage   (00.03.27) Corin Redgrave/Goodby-ee (from 'Oh! What A Lovely War')   (00.05.43) Poem - The Last Laugh, by Wilfred Owen, reader Sean Bean   (00.06.27) Kevin Johnson/In A Field In France   (00.11.03) Spoken Film Passage   (00.11.53) Poem - Poppies, by Australian War Poet, Leon Gellert, reader Rob Paul   (00.12.31) Ernie Mayne/Lloyd George's Beer   (00.14.54) Spoken Film Passage   (00.15.00) Oh! It's A Lovely War (from the film soundtrack)   (00.15.27) Spoken Film Passage   (00.15.53) The Dubliners/And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda   (00.21.52) A Letter Home, from 'Aussie' Donlen, reader Garry Morley    (00.22.41) John McCormack/Roses Of Picardy   (00.24.23) Spoken Film Passage    (00.24.25) Chumbawamba/Hanging On The Old Barbed Wire (excerpts)   (00.26.14) Here Comes A Whizzbang, from 'Oh What A Lovely War' (00.27.34 Spoken Film Passage)   (00.28.17) Poem - Dulce Et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen, reader Christopher Ecclestone   (00.30.00) Spoken Film Passage   (00.30.28) The Film Cast, 'Oh! What A Lovely War', Spoken Film Passage & They Were Only Playing Leapfrog   (00.31.58) Spoken Film Passage   (00.32.21) A Letter Home, from Maurice Delpratt, reader Michael Ryan   (00.33.34) 'Over The Top' & 'Drumfire' (Music,  Apocalyptica/Creeping Death)   (00.34.36) Elton John/All Quiet On The Western Front (with First Nations narration & 2 excerpts from Chumbawamba's 'Hanging On The Old Barbed Wire')   (00.40.11) A Diary Entry, 1917, by Nurse Alys Ross-King of Ballarat   (00.41.37) Billy Murray/I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (recorded 1909, from a 'Victor II' Gramophone)   (00.44.08) Spoken Film Passage    (00.44.37) Poem - The Last To Leave, by Australian War Poet, Leon Gellert, reader Rob Paul   (00.45.46) Excerpt from Chumbawamba's 'Hanging On The Old Barbed Wire'   (00.46.14) Poem - The Landing (3 stanzas), by Australian War Poet, George Street, reader Garry Morley   (00.47.14) John McCormack/It's A Long Way To Tipperary   (00.48.11) A Letter From The Front, from Cpl Jack Comar, reader, Rob Paul   (00.49.16) Eric Bogle/Green Fields Of France (Willie McBride)   (00.55.56) Poem - In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae, reader Sir John Gielgud   (00.56.49) Clifford T Ward/A Day To Myself   (01.01.22) Poem - Old Soldier, by Rob Paul, reader Rob Paul   (01.03.24) Messages from Sapphire FM & Tony Toussaint, Secretary of the Monaro & Far South Coast RSL District Council   (01.04.21) The Ode Of Remembrance/Roy Harper (from 'Berliners')   (01.05.50) The Cast, 'Oh! What A Lovely War'/We'll Never Tell Them   (01.08.01) Mark Knopfler/The Last Post (for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

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The History of the 1960s European 'Pirate' Broadcasters

(00.00.00) Introduction   (00.04.02) The Who/My Generation(1967)   (00.07.21) The Easybeats/Friday On My Mind(1966)   (00.09.54) Kathy Kirby/Dance On (1963)   
(00.12.33) Procol Harum/A Whiter Shade Of Pale (1967)   (00.16.33) Pink Floyd/Arnold Layne (1967)   (00.19.22) Petula Clark/Downtown (1964)   (00.24.50) The Move/Flowers In The Rain (1967)   (00.27.12) The Mamas' & The Papas'/California Dreaming (1965)   (00.30.03) The Kinks/Sunny Afternoon (1966)   
(00.33.34) Anita Harris/Just Loving You (1967)   (00.36.56) The Searchers/Needles And Pins (1964)   (00.39.28) Crispian St. Peters/You Were On My Mind (1966)   
(00.42.18) The Small Faces/Lazy Sunday Afternoon (1968)   (00.49.23) Lulu/The Boat That I Row (1967)   (00.52.26) Eric Burdon & The Animals/Sky Pilot (1968)   
(00.55.55) The Bee Gees/Massachusetts (1967)   (00.58.20) Cilla Black/You're My World (1964)   (01.01.51) The Kinks/All Day And All Of The Night (1964)
(01.04.16) PP Arnold/The First Cut Is The Deepest (1967)   (01.07.33) David & Jonathan/Lovers Of The World Unite (1966)   (01.10.15) Jonathan King/Everyone's
Gone To The Moon (1965)   (01.12.51) The New Vaudeville Band/Finchley Central (1967)   (01.16.03) Dusty Springfield/You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (1966)   
(01.23.56) The Beach Boys/Wouldn't It be Nice (1966)   (01.26.27) The Jimi Hendrix Experience/Hey Joe (1966)   (01.29.57) The Supremes/Where Did Our Love Go (1964)   (01.32.50) Cliff Richard/When Blue Turns To Grey (1965)   (01.35.27) The Honeycombs/Have I The Right (1964)   (01.38.29) The Rolling Stones/Satisfaction (1965)   (01.42.05) The Marine Offences Act & Highlights of The Final Hour of Radio London, with incidental music from Booker T & The MGs (Time Is Tight, 1968), The Rolling Stones (The Last Time, 1965), The Beatles (A Day In The Life, 1967), 'Wonderful Big L' Radio London Theme, The Shadows (Kon Tiki, 1961), The McCoys (Hang On Sloopy, 1965), 'London, My Home Town' - Radio London Theme   (01.46.54) Radio London MD, Philip Birch   (01.47.30) The Beatles/A Day In The Life   (01.51.53) Radio London Closes Down   (01.51.58) Radio London Theme   (01.56.18)  Montage: Honeycombs, Have I The Right - Sandy Posey, Single Girl - The Kinks, All Day & All Of The Night (guitar intro) - Don Partridge, Rosie - Thunderclap Newman, Something In The Air - The Walker Brothers, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More - Sandy Shaw, Girl Don't Come   (01.58.22) Ian Macrae's Recollections of Radio City & Radio Caroline   (01.59.06) Program Close

   Additional Incidental Music
   Robin Gibb/Saved By The Bell (section - 1969)   
   Marianne Faithfull/What Have They Done To The Rain (section - 1965)

   Appreciation
   Ian Macrae, Radio Caroline & Radio City Presenter
   Anna Clark-Doyle, Production Assistance
   Adam Vitovsky, 1960s Style Incidental Music

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An extended conversation with former Radio City, Radio Caroline & 2SM presenter, Ian Macrae.

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