England's BBC 4 is running a terrific program this morning called "The Folk Voice," hosted by the great Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. (It's program #2 in the 4-part series The Singer Not the Song.)
Here's the description: "If it were not for the work of a handful of collectors in the early part of the 20th Century traveling around the country, painstakingly recording the music of the working class, many of the songs which had been orally handed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years would have been lost. Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy, who have been leading figures in the folk revival since the 1960s, discuss the artistry of the folk singer."
You don't have to live in England to hear it; all BBC 4 shows are available for listening on-line anytime during the week following the first broadcast. Click here to go to the web page for the series, then click on the January 16 broadcast to hear the show.
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