Podcast Episodes

Jamie Webster in Liverpool

Season 6 Episode 92

“My city, my people, my heart” – Jamie Webster loves his home city of Liverpool – and Liverpool loves Jamie Webster. The young singer and songwriter started out performing chants for fans of Liverpoo…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Raynor Winn and the Gigspanner Big Band on the South West Coast Path

Season 6 Episode 90

Raynor Winn’s best-selling book “The Salt Path” tells how she and her husband Moth became homeless just as he was diagnosed with a terminal neuro-degenerative disease. Despite this, they set off to w…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

Grace Petrie in Leicester

Season 6 Episode 88

Grace Petrie sometimes introduces herself on stage as “a socialist, feminist, lesbian protest singer”. Her acutely observed songs range from political and passionate to personal and profound.  She’s …

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

Johnny Kalsi in Southall

Season 6 Episode 86

The drummer Johnny Kalsi (The Dhol Foundation, Transglobal Underground, Afro Celt Sound System, Imagined Village) takes us for a walk round Southall - an area of West London known as “Little India”. …

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Maurice Henderson & Ewen Thomson on Shetland

Season 6 Episode 84

We’re back on the glorious Shetland Isles for this episode and who better to show us around than the renowned local fiddle player Maurice Henderson (of Fiddlers Bid) and his friend the luthier and gu…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Official Folk Albums Chart of the Year Show 2021

Season 6 Episode 82

Join us for a very special show streamed live from Cecil Sharp House. The show looks back at the highlights of 2021, the very first full year of The Official Folk Albums Chart.

Hosted by Matthew Banni…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Kathryn Tickell & her Dad by the River Rede

Season 6 Episode 81

“He said you could pluck songs out of the air - pluck them out of the air - and sing them bonny”. The great Northumbrian pipe player Kathryn Tickell describes the River Rede near her home as the back…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Declan O‘Rourke in Kinvara

Season 6 Episode 79

The acclaimed singer and songwriter Declan O’Rourke takes us for a scenic walk near his home in the beautiful fishing village of Kinvara on the west coast of Ireland, singing songs inspired by the ar…

Published on 4 years ago

The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Jessie Summerhayes in the Rosedale Valley

Season 6 Episode 77

In the shadow of the disused ironstone kilns of the Rosedale Valley in North Yorkshire, Ciderhouse Rebellion - fiddle player Adam Summerhayes and accordionist Murray Grainger - conjure up a soundscap…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Edgelarks at Scorhill Stone Circle

Season 6 Episode 75

A Bronze Age site on Dartmoor, six musical instruments, a feather, harmonica-enhanced beatboxing, a stone that is said to increase fertility, a fast flowing river, a baby and a caring grandmother - a…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago