David Attenborough's Global Mixtape - 2018 Music Planet Sir David Attenborough first became nationally known as the presenter of BBC TV's Zoo Quest, a series based on expeditions to catch exotic animals for London Zoo. The programmes ran from 1954 to 1963, and in his spare time during the filming, Sir David made sound recordings of the local music. In this Music Planet Mixtape, Sir David introduces some of his favourites. His picks include sparkling harp playing from Paraguay, the chanting of his team's luggage-carriers in New Guinea and the funeral gongs of the Dyak people in Borneo. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06vz9sk I Belong to Glazgoy - 2023 Isaac Hirshow, a virtuosic Russian Jewish synagogue cantor and composer, arrived in the Gorbals from Warsaw in 1922. He was one of thousands of Jewish immigrants who landed here, just south of the river Clyde, where Yiddish voices mingled with Gaelic and Irish airs, Lithuanian laments, and Italian arias. Presenter: Dr Phil Alexander Contributors: Harvey Kaplan, Eddie Binnie, Natasha Lange Musicians: Valentina Montoya-Martinez (singer); Aref Ghorbani (singer and setar); Phil Alexander (piano and accordion); University of Glasgow Chapel Choir directed by Katy Lavinia Cooper www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n1x7 Tamara Stefanovich, Martin Hayes - 2024 Music Matters - Radio 3 Kate Molleson meets Irish fiddler Martin Hayes who shares his thoughts on the meaning of tradition, putting traditional music on the concert platform, and how the musicians who played and ate around the kitchen table of his childhood home in County Clare continue to inspire his musical life. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vv1k > 21:00 (17 minutes) Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Sarsgaard, Casting Directors - 2024 Front Row - Radio4 Rhiannon Giddens, the musician, composer and former lead singer of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, performs live with her band. She talks about her work in uncovering the real history of the banjo and writing her first solo album of original material. first item ~20minutes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wjgh Dan Damon looks back at the Radio Ballads & political songs - 2015 Broadcasting House www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05nsb41 > skip to 17:40 ~6 minutes Soundtrack to life - September 2023 Start the Week The singer Natalie Merchant, writer Michel Faber and teacher-cum-broadcaster Jeffrey Boakye discuss the power of music with Kirsty Wark. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ry9f Here Comes Radio 2 With A Wassail - 2017 Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine Show Amol Rajan interviewing West Countryman Les Davies and apple and cider writer Pete Brown. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04qw9ph a much better clip on Les' own page www.westcountryman.co.uk/radio2wassail audios of Les leading a wassail at the Somerset Rural Life Museum. 2013 https://soundcloud.com/glastonbury-uk/19-january-2013-wassail-at-the-somerset-rural-life-museum-with-les-davies 2014 https://soundcloud.com/glastonbury-uk/18-january-2014-wassail-at-the-rural-life-museum-with-les-davies-mbe-westcountrymancouk Here We Come a-Wassailing - 2014 The Early Music Show Lucie Skeaping introduces some of the music that has been associated with the wassailing tradition and her guests include the historian Joanna Crosby, from Essex Univeristy, who has a particular interest in apples. Download (UK Only) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vdgq4
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