A quick glance around the schedules

[Globaltruth]

15 minutes of genuine pleasure listening to this:

Syrian qanun virtuoso Maya Youssef explains why - to her - music is "the opposite of death" in this powerful and poignant talk.

including a significant mention of r3's very own Max Reinhardt and the work he does with

http://www.oilycart.org.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090293d

[johncorrigan]

15 minutes of genuine pleasure listening to this:


including a significant mention of r3's very own Max Reinhardt and the work he does with

http://www.oilycart.org.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090293d

Thank you, GT. Very moving!

[johncorrigan]

6 Music's 'The First time with....' is a bit hit-and-miss depending on the subject. This coming Sunday it'll be a hit, I reckon, with Mavis Staples being interviewed by the nice Matt Everett about her musical influences.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09s3hy6

[johncorrigan]

6 Music's 'The First time with....' is a bit hit-and-miss depending on the subject. This coming Sunday it'll be a hit, I reckon, with Mavis Staples being interviewed by the nice Matt Everett about her musical influences.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09s3hy6

Well worth a listen, I reckon, with lots to enjoy, including this piece of delight from 'The Last Waltz'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSzL5-SPHM

[johncorrigan]

The Genius of Bert Jansch on BBC4 a bit after bedtime - just look at that playlist attached. (except for the Martin Simpson track, Global)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03tdd6m

[Globaltruth]

Meanwhile, over on Radio 3 (they should have a forum) the excellent Kate Molleson presents Music Matters, this weeks subject :
Music and Language in the South East

In a continuing series about music and language around the British Isles, 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.

Kate also meets the American trumpeter, band leader, composer and educator Wynton Marsalis, who has been in London this month for concerts with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tn195

[johncorrigan]

I chanced on a very enjoyable programme last night about Alan Smethurst, The Singing Postman, the man who for one brief period in the early 60s outsold the Beatles and the Stones. DJ Taylor, brought up in Norfolk, told Smethurst's tale of triumph and tragedy and I got to find out that 'Have You Got A Loight Boy' wasn't his only song, and that his influences came from far and wide.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tmlh2

Strangely enjoyable!

[zola]

Radio 4's Great Lives next Tuesday afternoon features the great life of Don van Vliet. Vic Reeves is the Captain's advocate. I wonder what stance Matthew Parris will take ?

[johncorrigan]

Radio 4's Great Lives next Tuesday afternoon features the great life of Don van Vliet. Vic Reeves is the Captain's advocate. I wonder what stance Matthew Parris will take ?

Vic'll have Matthew performing Bat Chain Puller by the time the final credits come along, zola. I look forward to that one. Thanks.

[johncorrigan]

'Trouble No More', a film in the Arena strand about Bob in his born-again years showing this evening on BBC4.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09x60g3

[Lat-Literal]

'Trouble No More', a film in the Arena strand about Bob in his born-again years showing this evening on BBC4.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09x60g3

Thank you John. Jo mentioned the programme this afternoon. It's essential viewing for me. That is Jo as in Jo Good, 63, ex Crossroads, slightly theatrical, contemplative, error prone, unreliable in musical taste and a genuine good laugh. She manages to have a warm place in my affections when everyone else in lighter radio no longer does. I like her spirit. Anyhow, she had her house band in today. I have for many years labelled them as hackneyed. When they came up with Chaplin's "Smile", I though "oh no, here we go again". But they got it spot on in a British Pokey Lafarge sort of way. A good arrangement. It was not so much the ukulele as the Italian woman on the accordion. I will post a link as soon as it is available:

2.03-2.30 ish:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060w6mq

[Lat-Literal]

I am experiencing sporadic technical difficulties with the forum.

Don't know if anyone else has been having these?

[Lat-Literal]

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[johncorrigan]

Thank you John. Jo mentioned the programme this afternoon. It's essential viewing for me. That is Jo as in Jo Good, 63, ex Crossroads, slightly theatrical, contemplative, error prone, unreliable in musical taste and a genuine good laugh. She manages to have a warm place in my affections when everyone else in lighter radio no longer does. I like her spirit. Anyhow, she had her house band in today. I have for many years labelled them as hackneyed. When they came up with Chaplin's "Smile", I though "oh no, here we go again". But they got it spot on in a British Pokey Lafarge sort of way. A good arrangement. It was not so much the ukulele as the Italian woman on the accordion. I will post a link as soon as it is available:

Jo sounds like a gas, Lat, unreliable music tastes notwithstanding. I pride myself on unreliability, though I still don't quite manage to outfox the algorithms.

[Lat-Literal]

Jo sounds like a gas, Lat, unreliable music tastes notwithstanding. I pride myself on unreliability, though I still don't quite manage to outfox the algorithms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqVa_gVx-c4

(1970)

"Some of it is going to be absolute rubbish to be quite honest"