A quick glance around the schedules

[johncorrigan]

Hey I see Cerys is giving us a spot of Dezuriks this morning though she's struggling with the pronunciation - perfect for a Sunday morning.

[Lateralthinking1]

Oh no, I remembered it at 7.30am, 8.30am and 9.30am, then forgot. It is on now. Thanks for the cue.

[johncorrigan]

Oh no, I remembered it at 7.30am, 8.30am and 9.30am, then forgot. It is on now. Thanks for the cue.

I thought the special guest was pretty good Lat, but that Christy Moore track 'Easter Snow' is glorious.

[Lateralthinking1]

Ditto JC. Loved the Christy Moore track. I knew a little of the Jonathan Wilson cd - Gentle Spirit particularly. Pretty good.

(My phone rang towards the end so I was destined only to hear segments. There is always the I-Player for what I missed!)

[johncorrigan]

Ditto JC. Loved the Christy Moore track. I knew a little of the Jonathan Wilson cd - Gentle Spirit particularly. Pretty good.

(My phone rang towards the end so I was destined only to hear segments. There is always the I-Player for what I missed!)

Lat, I notice that the Christy Moore track was written for Uilleann piper Seamus Ennis - this is a wonderful wee clip of the man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF3fW4Nox9U

[johncorrigan]

Global - I wondered if you had spotted this from the schedules.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019pmvl

[Globaltruth]

Global - I wondered if you had spotted this from the schedules.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019pmvl

Yikes no, I hadn't, thanks, will listen later.


Here's a couple of possibly interesting R3 upcoming programmes, not particularly WM, but then what isn't....
Sunday 5 February
8.30-10.30pm
BBC RADIO 3

Drama On 3 – My Generation
A family saga covering four decades, My Generation offers a window into the drugs and pop-fuelled protest movement inspired by writer Alice Nutter’s own experience of the protest movement.
As part of the band Chumbawamba, Alice lived in a squat in Leeds for many years. Initially inspired by bands as diverse as The Fall, Wire, and Adam and the Ants and politically by the anarchist stance of Crass, Chumbawamba were at the forefront of the 1980s anarcho-punk movement, frequently playing benefit gigs in squats and small halls for various causes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2012/06/drama-my-generation.html

and
Tuesday 7 February
8.10-8.30pm
BBC RADIO 3

Abigail Williams uncovers the lost story of Walter Harding, a British-born Chicagoan ragtime pianist who amassed the world's largest collection of popular songbooks and then left them to the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2012/06/twenty-minutes.html

[Lateralthinking1]

Thank you for highlighting the play, Global. This is the one of the season that stood out when the list was issued. I hadn't realised that the broadcast was imminent. Alice Nutter's "Snow in July" was very good.

I listened to this programme after GQT yesterday and thought it had its moments - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b8yy8

The oddly titled "Soul Music" returns soon, I think tomorrow, and the first edition features Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street".

[johncorrigan]

Yikes no, I hadn't, thanks, will listen later.

I really enjoyed this - and I liked Jocelyn too.

[Globaltruth]

When you're gone...

I really enjoyed this - and I liked Jocelyn too.

Jocelyn Pook - Between The Ears

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019pmvl

Music composed specially for the programme, which provided a powerful and haunting counterpoint throughout

She started with a mournful list of the dead who had gone from her life.

This included her mother, who she recorded before her death at the age of 90.

Then some vox pop interviews - the music behind this, as her interviewees contemplated the inevitable, enhanced what could otherwise have been heard as mundane comments ....as the programme continued, the music became more emotionally affecting. Or maybe that's just how it affected this daft old bloke.

The big white nothing

I worry about it

the coldness of the universe

I worry about it

Occasionally Jocelyn summarised, added thoughts and comments, more from the interview with her mother or steered the programme into another direction - what happens to the energy from matter? can people see angels?.

[Globaltruth]

Now this is bound to feature on a few people's schedules...

http://myworldmusicfriends.com/articles/02052012/dub-colossus-releases-dub-me-tender

[handsomefortune]

lots of interesting nam es involved in the line up. i would certainly like 'dub me tender' it to be in my collection ... hope the (double) album is featured on one of the r3 progs soon.

[Globaltruth]

Weds on r2 at 7.30 - Folk Awards 2012.

Quite a few names regularly discussed on these boards are up for awards
(Lakeman, Unthanks, Tabor, Cutting, Simpson et al).

How to sort out the wheat from the chaff without it all getting a bit John Barleycorny..?

Let's not take it too cereiously...

[johncorrigan]

<<Trying to pre-empt JC>>

Bit of a flaky attempt if you ask me!

[Globaltruth]

Folk music on r3 Breakfast show? Open to interpretation...

The last track that Sara Mohr-Pietsch played this morning was a lovely song from Maddy Prior, plus a guitar player and an oud player.

Here is Maddy Prior and ensemble doing it live...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3JEv4lLsBk

Pleasant to hear a bit of tune re-use...

If you could hie to Kolob...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKM8rK0hZYI

Kingsfold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1J9QhQErOE

Clamanda (Sacred Harp version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8SJ298koQI

and the best known (in these parts)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GbdB7PlGtc