The radio ballads

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See full script. Add languages Add topic. Date: The picture shows Charles directing a recording session of John Axon. Parker was particularly inundated with requests for LP or tape copies of On the Edge, soon after its first transmission. Radio 2 Publicity. The trio together made eight radio ballads between and Immediately after The Ballad of John Axon was first broadcast, letters started arriving at the BBC requesting that the programme be repeated, which it was, on 5 August l For a generation of musicians, broadcasters and media writers, the term radio-ballad is an icon, a benchmark, a milestone.

Retrieved 25 January Retrieved 5 January It combines four elements of sound: songs, instrumental music, sound effects, and, most importantly, the recorded voices of those who are the subjects of the documentary. There is also background information about each new programme, plus pictures of interviewees, video of musicians recording songs in the studio, behind-the-scenes photographs and lyrics to some of the songs featured in each programme.

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More significantly, there were quite a lot of people — particularly teachers — who wrote to Charles Parker singing the praises of the radio- ballad format as a learning resource and enquiring whether copies could be made for educational use. Featuring stories from the men and women who worked in the shipyards of Tyne and Wear and the Clyde.

Article Talk. Monday 6 March at 9. Looking at the decline of the steel industry in Sheffield and Rotherham. In an unpublished letter to The Guardian , [ 3 ] in , Ian Campbell detailed a further two programmes made a year apart, by Parker, with music by Campbell and John Chapman in the former case , without the involvement of MacColl or Seeger, and broadcast, according to Campbell, "to critical acclaim", then "consigned… to permanent oblivion".

Song of a Road and The Body Blow have never hitherto been issued in any format. The Radio Ballads have now been released on the Topic label, and a full set of reviews can be seen on the Musical Traditions web site.