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with Folk on 2 Making their first broadcast tonight are the Smoking Stone Band from Orkney, whose musical influences range from traditional Scottish to American bluegrass. The band features 2Oyear-old Orcadian Douglas Montgomery on fiddle who, when he is not playing with the band, is studying music at Napier University in Edinburgh and is leader of the University Orchestra. HOTLINE FREECALL NUMBER:
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Douglas Montgomery

Maddy Prior, founder member of Steeleye Span, presents a six-part series on unaccompanied music. 4: Of Town and Country Donegal, White Deer in Texas, the Netherlands and the Caribbean are all featured as Prior selects recordings by Clannad, a new Texan country quartet the Edlos, the Cuban
"orchestra" Vocal Sampling and the mbube group, Pure Gold.

The final programme of the series with Nick Barraclough. Mike Harding stops the Duke of Edinburgh from landing, Ian Macalman tries his hand at smuggling,
Wally Whyton discovers the camel spider, and Harvey Andrew sings to a wall of beer cans.

Contributors

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Nick Barraclough.
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Mike Harding
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Ian MacAlman
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Wally Whyton
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Harvey Andrew

At the beginning of the century, life in rural Britain changed beyond recognition, in the course of one generation, as farming methods were modernised.
This four-part series captures the memories of people from all over the United Kingdom who experienced country life as it had been for centuries.
1: The Four Seasons
How the seasons affected the land, the people who farmed it, the farming calendar and annual festivals, and how the changing climate affected daily life.
Producer Keith Slade

Contributors

Producer:
Keith Slade

The Organist Entertains A few weeks ago the Theatre Organ Society of Australia held their 24th
National Convention in Sydney and Nigel Ogden was invited to perform the opening concert at the Orion Centre. Tonight's programme covers part of that evening's entertainment and meets other visiting performers from across Australia.

Contributors

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Nigel Ogden

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