In the fourth of six programmes,
Georgina Boyes looks at the collectors' vision of a folk-song paradise. The programme concentrates on the work of Maud Karpeles in Newfoundland and the Appalachian mountains of America, as well as important figures such as the Lomaxes, who collected the rural blues of Leadbelly, and A L Lloyd, who discovered the music of Albania. Including
Leadbelly's Goodnight
Irene; an Albanian wedding song; The False Knight on the Road and The Frog He Went A-Courting from the Appalachians; and Sweet William's Ghost and The
Cock of the North from
Newfoundland.
Producer David Corser