A quick glance around the schedules

[johncorrigan]

BBC4 TV : Je t'aime : The Story of French Song With Petula Clark:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vnhz1

Documentary from 2015 - and repeated last night. Much better than I expected.

I remember liking it very much when I saw it a couple of years back, Lat. I really like Petula Clark. I started a collab playlist on the back of it on spotty...I think!

https://open.spotify.com/user/jcorrigan1452/playlist/3qY4VaEjTpFjQmLgtxREey?si=LYnNeCTZSSmZG33z8abUCw

[Lat-Literal]

I remember liking it very much when I saw it a couple of years back, Lat. I really like Petula Clark. I started a collab playlist on the back of it on spotty...I think!
https://open.spotify.com/user/jcorri...SSmZG33z8abUCw

That looks excellent, JC - thank you.

[Lat-Literal]

I remember liking it very much when I saw it a couple of years back, Lat. I really like Petula Clark. I started a collab playlist on the back of it on spotty...I think!
https://open.spotify.com/user/jcorri...SSmZG33z8abUCw

The real deal was Leo Ferre who some plonker who was good with languages told me should be pronounced Ferre rather than Ferray. Perhaps he was right but he was controversial so perhaps he was wrong. It is not the obvious first choice - Brel, Brassens, Hardy etc etc but I love Leo Ferre. He runs quite close to Simone who, of course, covered Brel so wonderfully:

Leo Ferre - Requiem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrtxDNNc5Uw

Gainsbourg may have invented Eurovision. Difficult to assess that one - a difference between a play on words and actualite - but wasn't Birkin in her considered intellectualism so cool. The entire topic is full of intrigue and dark romance, joining the troubadours and theatre with the swinging sixties. This is why I love musical France. So geographically close and yet so different......and yet I always believed the French were more similar to the British than anyone else and I still believe it. I do feel they could have mentioned Benjamin Biolay though.

The brilliant, if rockist, Les Joggers Sur La Plage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE192Zs2BY8

Not to mention Les Cerfs-Volants : ok, going for it in a massive way but succeeding with it mega-stylee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4BsxSZS1kY

(I love it)

[johncorrigan]

Just noticed that Ivor Cutler memorial programme from Archive on 4 is on Radio 4 Extra at the moment. Nice wee show if you fancy a spot of Ivor to brighten your day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt

If not here's something from 'Jammy Smears' and from the programme...kind of!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv8ybnQfLjo

[johncorrigan]

Very much enjoyed the lunchtime prom today with Australian oud player Joseph Tawadros performing traditional Arabic improvisation from his Egyptian heritage - he was quite amusing with it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bckh6q

[Globaltruth]

Lauren Child, writer, on Private Passions talking, with some passion, about Mongolia and selected a track from there too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bd7ls8

[johncorrigan]

I'm not sure how this works but broadcaster Matthew Bannister has enlisted the support of some folk musicians to take them for a walk and tell folklore tales of the UK for a Podcast. On there are the Young'uns, Sam Lee, Steve Knightley and Karine Polwart...Robin Hood Bay and the Carthys is promised soon.

https://www.folkonfoot.com/

[johncorrigan]

Joe Boyd's on Cerys' Blues Show this evening.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bg1r5q

[Globaltruth]

Drama !

Not something that gets posted often here, stumbled on this on Radio 4 Extra by chance.

Here's the synopsis:

"Music may go or come but almost always it is African."

Gambian musician, Moses Biama is invited to London to make an album with fading English rock star, Frank.

But the recording doesn't work out the way Frank has planned...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k30r

Cast of the usual suspects - Lenny Henry as Moses and Bill Nighy as Frank.

There are quite a few rock stars on whom this story may have been based..... I have my suspicions!

First broadcast in 1991

[johncorrigan]

Drama !

Not something that gets posted often here, stumbled on this on Radio 4 Extra by chance.

Thanks, GT. In riposte...Dancing!

Not something that gets posted often here, stumbled on this on Radio 4 yesterday by chance.

Behind the Scenes with dancer/choreographer Akram Khan...for some obscure reason I thought you might find it of interest, Global.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b42z8m

Some fine sounds in there...didn't think much of the dancing, mind you!

[johncorrigan]

On Beeb 4 tonight at 10pm, 'Pump Up the Bhangra - The Sound of Asian Britain'. Should be enthusiastic with Bobby Friction out front.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgfnxv

[johncorrigan]

Just listened to 'Archive on 4' from last night titled 'The Ballads of Emmet Till', the subject of many songs and poems. Fascinating and frightening programme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgb435

[johncorrigan]

I hear from the Mark Radcliffe R2 Folk Show tonight that Olivia Chaney has just recorded a record produced by Thomas Bartlett, the Dove Man of Gloaming...here's 'Roman Holiday'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp5QuDC0ps0

[Lat-Literal]

I hear from the Mark Radcliffe R2 Folk Show tonight that Olivia Chaney has just recorded a record produced by Thomas Bartlett, the Dove Man of Gloaming...here's 'Roman Holiday'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp5QuDC0ps0

Thank you for this - I like her voice.

[Globaltruth]

Thank you for this - I like her voice.

Not quite sure where to post this (anywhere the host says...) - the same Doveman has also recently done stuff with Yoko. Ono.