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BALLADS OF BRITAIN

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

Five programmes of gramophone records, illustrating the living tradition of the British ballad
Compiled and introduced by Peter Kennedy
4: Ballads of Work and Why Bother?
Songs concerned with that most romantic of occupations, the roving trade-the jolly tinkers, the pedlars with their packs, the hard-working tiradestmen who take to the open road
Production by Douglas Cleverdon

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Introduced By:
Peter Kennedy
Production By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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