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Kathryn Roberts , the current holder of the Young Tradition Award, presents tonight's special edition featuring highlights of this year's BBC Radio 2
Traditional and International
Music Festival.
The festival is part of a week-long celebration of young people's music-making organised by Music for Youth. The programme features performances from ceilidh and steel bands, a gospel choir from Oldham, a gamelan orchestra from Isleworth and a Russian ensemble from Manchester.

Contributors

Unknown:
Kathryn Roberts

John Carmichael leads the band in a lively mixture of ceilidh music recorded at
Glasgow's Riverside Club, with this week's guests
Stan Reilly (saxophone) and Ishbel MacAskill.
Producer Ken Mutch

Contributors

Unknown:
John Carmichael
Unknown:
Stan Reilly
Unknown:
Ishbel MacAskill.
Producer:
Ken Mutch

A series of six programmes in which Georgina Boyes looks at ways mining has been portrayed in music. 2: All Kinds of Mine
Featuring songs associated with different types of mining including lead mining in North Yorkshire - Fourpence a Day, Jez Lowe 's Potash
Song, a Cornish tin miners' choir, Zambian copper miners and June Tabor 's lament for the blue asbestos miners of Australia.

Contributors

Unknown:
Georgina Boyes
Unknown:
Jez Lowe
Unknown:
June Tabor

A six-part series in which Ron Moody explores the role of the Jewish entertainer on stage, on screen and in song.
1: With music from Al
Jolson to Barbra Streisand , and among all the schmooze, a question: what's the connection between Al Jolson , Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and George Burns ?
Written by Michael Freedland A Rewind production

Contributors

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Barbra Streisand
Unknown:
Al Jolson
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Harold Arlen
Unknown:
George Burns
Written By:
Michael Freedland

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