In three programmes Tom Robinson charts the unacknowledged art of song and songwriting in England: not pop songs but those of human, political and social comment - kind of English chanson influenced more by Jaques Brel than Chuck Berry.

A look at the late 1950s when three mass movements - CND, the folk revival and skiffle - helped songwriters such as Leon Rosselson, Sydney Carter and Frankie Armstrong find their voices. And then came satire...