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The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and his two fellow parsons, did indeed strike gold 
during the autumn of 1888, collecting some 90 songs. In this ninth episode of The Parson and the Songmen we join Sabine as he takes a jaunt around the southern edge of Dartmoor in order to meet two new singers.

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In this, the eighth edition of the podcast The Parson and the Songmen, we learn if the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was any good at remembering dates, how he managed to consign the 'Singing Machine' to his grave a year before his death, and just how three folksong-collecting Reverends were better than one!
 

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As we explored in Podcast Six, The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was not slow to edit, or completely rewrite, songs that he felt would not be fit for his intended audience. In this episode we discover just what happened to those airs, and focus on the creation of a brand new composition that was born out of this process.

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As the number of songs that the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould assembled grew it became apparent to other song collectors of the time, and those who followed, just how many of them he had altered or completely re-written. In this sixth podcast in the series The Parson and the Songmen we explore the Parson’s reasoning behind this and the later consequences for the songs collected.

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In this latest podcast in the series The Parson and the Songmen I attempt to answer the questions - just how old are the folk songs that the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould collected and why was there such a variety to be found right on the Parson’s very doorstep? Join me know as I investigate, in this fifth episode, ‘From Minstrels To Broadsides’.

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There must have been many times when out song collecting that The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould had to write down lyrics that in his own words were 'Not fit for Christian ears to hear or Christian lips to utter’. What then was he to do when songs of this nature came his way? Find out now in the fourth podcast in the series The Parson and the Songmen.

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In 1888 the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould had discovered a rich lode of old Devon songs. But, although he had been told that he was the right man for the job to collect these songs, there was a serious drawback in the process due to him having had no musical training. Would Sabine be able to overcome this major challenge in order to accurately record the songs offered to him? Find out now in the third episode of the Parson and the Songmen.

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In this, the second episode of the Parson and the Songmen, we join the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould as he starts the task of collecting the old folk songs of his native Devon. After early difficulties in tracking down any songs his luck changes when he encounters a local thatcher and hedger, James Parsons, who due to the sheer number of songs that he knew was called ‘The Singing Machine’.

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In 1888 The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould set himself the daunting task of collecting the folk songs of his native Devonshire, and later Cornwall, before they died out with their ageing singers. If he had not done so then this important part of our traditional musical heritage would have been lost forever. This first episode tells the story of how he began this project that would consume him for the next fifteen years. As the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould said: He considered it to be 'the most important achievement of his life'. 

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