Podcast Episodes

Freedom To Roam in the Malvern Hills

Season 6 Episode 111

Freedom To Roam is a music and multi-media project dreamed up by the flautist Eliza Marshall as a response to many of the pressing issues facing us right now. On this walk climbing the glorious Malve…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Maddy Prior and Rose-Ellen Kemp at Stones Barn in Cumbria

Season 6 Episode 108

“The snow it is lying on Bewcastle Fell
And the wind strips the skin from my face.
The bare bones of a tree give some shelter to me
But still it’s a draughty old place.”

Come to “the least populated area…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

The Wexford Carols with Caitriona O’Leary

Season 6 Episode 106

A festive episode featuring the Wexford Carols sung by the beautiful voice of Caitriona O’Leary. The carols came out of the persecution of Catholics in Wexford in the seventeenth and eighteenth centu…

Published on 3 years ago

Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman and Jack Rutter on a tall ship

Season 6 Episode 104

Ahoy there! A folk supergroup – The Sea Song Sessions - playing and singing on board a tall ship in Fowey Harbour in Cornwall as the water laps the hull. A discussion of the role of seafaring music i…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Gwilym Bowen Rhys in Aberdaron

Season 6 Episode 102

Come for a wild, wet and windy walk on the beach at Aberdaron on the Llyn peninsula in Wales with the singer and songwriter Gwilym Bowen Rhys. Then join us in the local church where  Gwilym demonstra…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Folk on Foot Trailer

Season 6

What is the multi-award-winning Folk on Foot all about? The Telegraph calls it “a restorative breathing space in sound”.  In this sampler, host Matthew Bannister shares beautiful extracts from episod…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

The Dance of the Commons at the Englefield Estate

Season 6 Episode 99

On a hot August day, scores of walkers in weird, wacky and wonderful costumes inspired by old English traditions, accompanied by morris dancers and musicians, set off to stage a peaceful and joyful m…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Bonus Episode: Maddy Prior and Peter Knight in conversation at Cecil Sharp House

Season 6 Episode 98

Singer Maddy Prior and violinist Peter Knight were at the heart of the success of folk rock pioneers Steeleye Span. In this candid interview with Matthew Bannister on stage at the Indoor Festival of …

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Fay Hield at the Soundpost Weekend in Dungworth

Season 6 Episode 96

The singer, songwriter and academic Fay Hield invites us to a Soundpost Singing Weekend in the village of Dungworth on the outskirts of Sheffield. Guests include Sean Cooney of the Young’uns and Rowa…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

The Musical Village of Pathhead, Midlothian

Season 6 Episode 94

Join us on a walk around the unassuming village of Pathhead, Midlothian, just south of Edinburgh, which is home to a whole galaxy of Scottish musicians.

We start with singer songwriter Karine Polwart,…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago