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The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe

Music: Folk

Mark Radcliffe explores the wide range of folk and acoustic music from around the world.

Mark Radcliffe explores the wide range of traditional and contemporary folk and acoustic music from around the UK and the world, with regular interviews and live sessions.

The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe: Stuart Maconie sits in, and Edward II guest

Stuart Maconie sits in

16/03/2016

Stuart Maconie sits in, and Edward II guest

BBC Radio 2 - The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe, Stuart Maconie sits in, and Edward II guest

Stuart Maconie sits in for Mark Radcliffe, and Edward II talk about local broadside songs.

Stuart Maconie sits in for Mark Radcliffe, and folk-reggae band Edward II talk with Mark about local broadside songs in Manchester Central Library.

An hour of the best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond. 

This week, Stuart Maconie sits in for Mark, and you can hear Mark's visit to Manchester Central Library with folk-reggae band Edward II, to look at broadside ballads from the industrial revolution.

The band, along with Manchester singer Jennifer Reid, discuss their new album called Manchester's Improving Daily. The project sees them rework a classic collection of 19th century broadside songs about life in the city.

Broadsides were cheap pieces of street literature, printed on single sheets of paper and pasted on walls in pubs and other public places. They were used to spread news and ideas in the form of song lyrics, which would then be sung to a mostly illiterate audience.

Collections of broadsides, like the one in Manchester, are among the main ways that folk songs have survived for hundreds of years.

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