Music

Last Edited: 22-Oct-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas (music library)
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Programs about music not performances. See the Music Library for performances.

Table of Contents

Generic Musical Topics Musical Instruments
Musicians
Classical Music
Musicals, Operettas, Music Halls
Jazz
Rock
Folk
Popular Music
World Music
Venues
Composers
Recording




Generic Musical Topics
See also
IPod-Playlist Series, The
The Making of Music
Musical Migrants
Schickele Mix
Soul Music
Tickling The Ivories
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
BBC R4
02-Feb-2004
to
06-Feb-2004
Working in Harmony
  1. The Teacher and Students
  2. The Singer and Agent
  3. The Piano Trio
  4. The Radio Producer and Composer
  5. The Conductor and Orchestra
  1. Itzhak Perlman
  2. Ailish Tynan, Colin Ure
  3. the Beaux Arts Trio
  4. Cherry Cookson, Elizabeth Parker
  5. Tugan Sokhiev
Producer: Rachel Hopkin
5 files
1:09:03, 47.4 MB, S
BBC R4
04-Mar-2006
to
18-Mar-2006
Music to Die For
music in modern crime fiction
Ian Rankin
Producer: John Pidgeon
3 files
1:24:59, 77.8 MB, S
07-Apr-2006 to
05-May-2006
The Reith Lectures 2006 --
In the Beginning Was Sound
Daniel Barenboim
5 files
3:43:55, 205 MB, S
25-Jul-2006 to
08-Aug-2006

Marking the Event
  1. The Toledo Summit of 1502
  2. 1589 Medici Wedding
  3. 1727 Coronation of George II
Bridget Kendall
Produced by Johanna Smith

27:45, 26017, S
27:55, 26173, S
27:39, 25928, S

26-Sep-2006
The CIA and the Avant-Garde?
Tommy Pearson and Christopher Fox
Produced by Andy Cartwright

28:08, 26381, S
07-Nov-2006
A Soldier’s Song

Tim Healey
Produced by Tom Alban

28:03, 26309, S
14-Jul-2007
Shots from the Hip 
Music criticism
Andrew Collins
Produced by Toby Field

28:08, 26379, S
09-Dec-2007
Einstein’s Fiddle
Brian Foster
Produced by Matt Silber

14:10, 13297, S
05-Feb-2008
John Curwen and His Moveable Doh
Roy Jenkins
Produced by Paul Evans

28:04, 26316, S
19-Aug-2008
Why Do We Sing?
Gareth Malone
Produced by Emma Kingsley

28:00, 26251, S
22-Oct-2008
The Divine Spark of Music
James MacMillan
chaired by Joan Bakewell
produced by Christine Morgan

42:48, 40128, S
19-Dec-2008
Wahl Wah! Wah! Waaaaa! The Comedy Scores
Huw Williams
Producer: Geoff Ballinger
28:03, 26312, S
2003
BBC R7:
13-Sep-2010
14-Sep-2010
Out of Tune
Robert Sandall
Producer John Watkins
27:49, 26085, S
27:36, 25891, S
23-Sep-2010
Not Fade Away
Stuart Maconie
produced by Nick Holmes

27:48, 26077, S
27-Jan-2011
The Honest Musician’s Fear of Accidental Plagiarism
Guy Garvey
produced by Cecile Wright

28:03, 26299, S
05-Jul-2011
The Bird Fancyer’s Delight
Sarah Angliss
Producer: Neil McCarthy

27:52, 26088, S
05-Jan-2012
12-Jan-2012
Black Is a Country
Presenter: Erykah Badu
Producer: Simon Hollis
27:56, 26139, S
28:00, 26202, S
10-Jan-2012
Songs for Madame Vasnier
Richard Langham Smith
produced by Joanna Smith
27:48, 26020, S
19-Mar-2012
There Is Business Like Show Business
Industrial musicals
Will Young
produced by Rachel Ross
27:43, 25940, S
08-Aug-2012 Darwin's Tunes
Armand Leroi
Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz
27:56, 26142, S
09-Oct-2012 One Man's War --
the story of classical music life in London during the
Second World War
Katie Derham
produced by Luke Whitlock
27:48, 26018, S
22-Oct-2012 Earworms
Shaun Keaveny, Lauren Stewart
Producer: Michelle Martin
27:57, 26163, S
14-May-2013
21-May-2013
28-May-2013
06-Jun-2013
The Science of Music
  1. the origins of music
  2. the logic, engineering and physics underlying the
    musical sounds
  3. music and the mind
  4. the science of music performance
Robert Winston
produced by Martin Williams
27:40, 25937, S
27:37, 25893, S
27:36, 25871, S
27:37, 25889, S
27-Jul-2013
Pomp, Pageantry and Parade
Courtney Pine
Producer: Llinus Jones
27:29, 25721, S

Musical Instruments
See also BBC R2
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
17-Dec-1997
The Mellotron
Nick Wakeman
Produced by Nick Ware

26:57, 37918, S
26-Dec-2002
The Tuba and the Tabla
Mark Tully
Producer: Vanessa Harrison
14:00, 9846, S
BBC R4
03-Jun-2006
09-Jan-2007

Sampledelica: History of the Mellotron
Mark Radcliffe
With Paul McCartney, Paul Weller, Tony
Banks and Justin Haywaed
Produced by Simon Jacobs

28:20, 26576, S
BBC R3
13-Dec-2003
R7:
2004
Between the Ears - The Museum of Lost Keyboards
a satire
Django Bates.
Producer: John Goudie
19:36, 18302, S
05-Feb-2004
Steel Pan Alley
Sterling Betancourt
Produced by Dan Shepherd
27:34, 19388, S
27-Apr-2004
Music's Missing Link
Zachary Taylor
Producer: Susan Marling
28:06, 26356, S
22-May-2004
Fender Heaven
Hank Marvin, Johnny Marr, Beck, David Stafford
Producer David Prest
28:18, 26454, S
24-May-2004
The Music Machine
The Ondioline
Producer: Dinah Nuttall
27:32, 25826, S
17-May-2005
Coming Out of the Woodwork
Mark Whitaker
28:15, 26486, S
02-Aug-2005
The Biggest Organ In the World
Gordon Stewart
Producer: Mark O'Brien
27:58, 26234, S
27-Sep-2005
The Saxon Lyre
see also Time Team #138 The King of Bling
Zachary Taylor
Producer: Susan Marling
28:17, 26532, S
05-Jan-2006
The World’s First Rock Band
Cumbrian Instruments made out of rocks
Evelyn Glennie
Produced by Bob Dickinson

28:28, 26689, S
01-Jan-2004
R7:
01-Dec-2006

The Secret History of Bagpipes
Tom Morton
Produced by Michael Surcombe

27:26, 25731, S
23-Jan-2007
Syncopatin’ Shuffle
Banjo playing
Julian Vincent
Produced by Paul Evans

28:15, 26486, S
29-May-2007
From Berkeley to the Bronx
Roger Linn’s Drum Machines
Gary Kemp
Produced by Peter Sale

28:32, 26677, S
30-Oct-2007
Angelic Organ of Evil
The Glass Armonica
Adam Hart-Davis
Produced by Paul Evans

29:01, 27218, S
27-Nov-2007
Wheatstone, His Sighing Reed and the Great Regondi
the concertina
Bernard Richardson
Produced by Paul Evans

28:08, 26388, S
09-May-2008
Sounding Post – wood in musical instruments       
Nina Perry
28:19, 26555, S
20-May-2008
Gershwin’s Horns
Rainer Hersch, Mick Doran, Neil Percy
Produced by Tom Alban

28:09, 26396, S
09-Sep-2008
The Life and Times of the Tambourine
Huw Williams
produced by Steve Groves

27:55, 26173, S
18-Aug-2009
Luting the Past -
the story of a 400-year-old lute
Emma Kirkby
produced by Chris Taylor

27:55, 26178, S
27-Oct-2009
Science vs The Stradivarius
Trevor Cox, Tasmin Little
produced by Erika Wright

27:49, 26083, S
10-Nov-2009
A Cymbal Tale
Andrew McGibbon
produced by Nick Romero

27:52, 26136, S
07-Dec-2010
Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton’s Banjo
Tim van Eyken
Producer: Julian May

27:46, 26045, S
14-Dec-2010
The Big Squeeze – the classical accordion

James Crabb
produced by Michael Surcombe

27:50, 26095, S
05-Apr-2011
Loud Organs His Glory
Simon Townley
Producer: Tom Alban

27:55, 26173, S
19-Apr-2011
Ghost Music
Christine Finn
Producer: Marya Burgess

27:57, 26205, S
13-Mar-2012
The Brontes' Piano
Catherine Bott
Producer: Simon Hollis
27:54, 26175, S
17-Apr-2012 Balalaika Born Again
Nick Baker
Producer: Tamsin Hughes
27:40, 25886, S
14-Aug-2012 A Sound British Adventure
Stewart Lee
Produced by John Sugar
27:52, 26079, S
06-Dec-2012 The Physicist's Guide to the Orchestra
Trevor Cox
produced by Nick Holmes
27:36, 25823, S

Musicians
See also
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
23-Jan-2004
R7
The Wedding Band
Richard Coles
Producer: Matthew Dodd
27:57, 26209, S
17-Feb-2004
Chetham's School of Music
Wayne Marshall
Producer: Libby Cross
28:36, 26820, S
09-Mar-2004
The Gift
The Development of Musical Talent
Evelyn Glennie
Produced by Marya Burgess
28:19, 26552, S
08-Jan-2004
repeat
03-May-2004
Late Learners
William Hague
Producer: Michael Surcombe
27:52, 26134, S
24-Feb-2004
Poisoned Angel: the Story of Alma Rose
Alyn Shipton
Producer: Paul Evans
27:37, 25903, S
02-Jun-2005
The Scourge of St Paul's
Emma Kirkby
Producer Andrew Green
28:05, 26329, S
28-Jun-2005
Playing Second Fiddle
session musicians

28:10, 26407, S
29:Jun-2005
Tiny Tim
CP Lee
Producer: Bob Dickinson
28:06, 26349, S
09-Jul-2005
From Luton Streets to Jersey Shores
Bruce Springsteen
Sarfraz Manzoor
Producer: Mohit Bakaya
28:05, 26129, S
03-Jul-2005 to
17-Jul-2005
Second String
  1. Russell Davies
  2. Miles Kington 
  3. Chris Serle
Producer: Mohini Patel
3 files
43:42, 40.0 MB, S
06-Sep-2005
13-Sep-2005
The Complete Conductor
Michael Brearley
Producer Martin Smith
27:11, 25497, S
28:09, 26398, S
09-Sep-2005
Miss Lou at Rada
Louise Bennett, Yvonne Brewster, Linton Kwesi
Johnson, Leonie Forbes
Producer: Caroline Huqhes

28:10, 26412, S
17-Sep-2005
Red Wedge: the Thin End
John O'Farrell
Producer: Louise Adamson
28:07, 26372, S
13-Oct-2005
The Ibbs and Tillett Story
Chris Fifield
Producer: Tom Alban
28:01, 26276, S
08-Nov-2005
Making the Grade
Producer Lucy Lunt
28:13, 26455, S
15-Nov-2005
Twentieth-Century Troubadour
Producer: Miles Warde
28:02, 26282, S
26-Dec-2005
The Organ Transplant
Miriam O'Reilly, Uldis Rubezis
Producer: Jolyon Jenkins
28:05, 26329, S
25-Apr-2006
Am I Too Soft?
Accompanists
Susan Tomes
Produced by Andrea Kidd

27:59, 26249, S
23-May-2006
The Roadie’s Tale
Nick Barraclough, with The Buzzcocks, their crew,
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, Andy Kershaw and
Mark Radcliffe

27:52, 26129, S
16-Jun-2006
21-Jan-2007

The Greatest Free Show on Earth
The Whit Friday band contests

Dylan Winter
Produced by Nick Baker

28:15, 26486, S
20-Jun-2006
The Asylum Band
The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum Orchestra
David Juritz
Produced by Margaret Wren

28:19, 26551, S
11-Jul-2006
In Chorus
Robert Thicknesse
Produced by Robert Oldwyn

28:03, 26301, S
24-Oct-2006
Finding a Voice
Barbara Dickson
Produced by Richard Bannerman

28:06, 26355, S
17-Nov-2006
Choirs on a Prayer
Edi Stark
Richard Ells and Margaret Wyckes

27:58, 26202, S
01-Dec-2006
08-Dec-2006

Streetwise: the Opera
Bridget Foley
Produced by Hannah Andrassy

27:37, 25898, S
27:49, 26093, S

19-Dec-2006
Christmas in the Cathedral
Preparations in Salisbury Cathedral
Produced by Janet McLarrty
28:01, 26276, S
07-Aug-2001
R7:
24-Oct-2006

Lost Voices
Voice problems of opera singers
David Raven Allen
Produced by Simon Elmes

27:40, 25939, S
09-Jan-2007
to
06-Jan-2007
23-Jul-2007
to
27-Jul-2007

The Singer Not the Song
  1. The Jazz Voice
  2. The Folk Voice
  3. The Blues Voice
  4. The Rock Voice
  5. The Tenor Voice
Jacqui Dankworth and Humphrey Lyttelton
Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy
Produced by Cecile Wright

14:06, 13221, S
14:12, 13316, S
14:14, 13345, S
14:15, 13374, S
14:08, 13267, S

19-Mar-2007
National Youth Orchestra at 60
Mark Simpson
Produced by Paul Evans

28:15, 26497, S
01-Apr-2007
The Page Turners
Producer: Simon Hollis
14:19, 13437, S
29-May-2007
The Name of the Father
William Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Julian Lloyd Webber,
Tim Rice, John Lill, Richard Baker
Produced by Rowan Morton-Gledhill

27:59, 26238, S
31-May-2007
A Telephone and a Rubber Band
the Penguin Café Orchestra
Robin Denslow
Produced by Richard Mcilroy

28:03, 26308, S
05-Jun-2007
to
19-Jun-2007
--
13-Jan-2009
to
27-Jan-2009

Take Two
  1. Dylan and Baez
  2. Stravinsky and Diaghilev
  3. Strayhorn and Ellington

  4. Young and Holiday
  5. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Walter Legge
  6. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen
Richard Coles
Produced by Adam Fowler
--
Produced by Emma Kingsley

27:55, 26187, S
28:00, 26261, S
28:10, 26412, S
--
28:02, 26292, S
27:50, 26110, S
27:29, 25774, S

07-Aug-2007
Strange Story of Rudolph Dunbar
Wayne Marshall
Produced by Libby Cross

28:24, 26627, S
04-Sep-2007
I Was Morrissey’s Drummer
Andrew McGibbon
Produced by Nick Romero and Jonathan Ruffle

28:20, 26572, S
14-Nov-2007
10-Mar-2008

The Rainbow Tribe
Josephine Baker’s Family
Kate Mennel
8:04. 26323, S
04-Dec-2007
The Trumpet Shall Sound
Black Classical Musicians
Julian Joseph
Produced by Sarah Taylor

27:51, 26113, S
08-Dec-2007
Between Rock and a Good Cause
John Wilson
Produced by John Goudie

28:19, 26550, S
25-Jan-2008
02-Mar-2008

Freedom Song
the 1939 Marion Anderson concert at
the Lincoln Memorial
Tony Phillips
Ekaney Ekanwu

28:26, 26698, S
25-Mar-2008
Love Death and the Lady:
the Life and Music of Shirley Collins
Verity Sharp
Produced by Julian May

28:16, 26504, S
01-Apr-2008
Angelic Voices – The History of Boy Choristers
Jeremy Summerly
Produced by Kathryn McGee

28:02, 26285, S
01-May-2008
Young Musicians Grown Old
Mark Simpson
Produced by Mark Evans

28:22, 26605, S
19-May-2008 to
23-May-2008

Joan Armatrading’s Favourite Choirs
  1. Warrington Male Voice Choir
  2. WorldSong
  3. London Bulgarian Choir
  4. Scunthorpe Co-Op Junior Choir
  5. The Kingdom Choir
Joan Armatrading
Produced by Kate Bland and Susan Marling

14:17, 13393, S
13:55, 13058, S
13:56, 13067, S
14:00, 13127, S
13:51, 12996, S

24-Jun-2008
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Phill Jupitus
Produced by Turin Ali
28:16, 26503, S
16-Aug-2008
The Man Who Bought Hendrix’s Stage
Phill Jupitus
produced by John Sugar

28:01, 26278, S
23-Aug-2008
The Man Who Was Bojangles
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Produced by Elaine Williams

27:49, 26085, S
06-Aug-2008
Brel et Moi: Alastair Campbell on Jacques Brel
Alastair Campbell
Produced by Russell Finch

28:24, 26636, S
11-Aug-2008
150 Years of the Halle
Mark Elder
produced by Paul Bajoria

28:05, 26329, S
16-Sep-2008
Pulling Out the Stops
Daniel Hope, Martin Haselbock
Produced by Rob Alexander and Mark John

27:58, 26227, S
12-Oct-2008
Lennon’s Private Passion – Cape Wrath
Sarfraz Manzoor
Produced by Mark Rickards

14:03, 13176, S
13-Nov-2008
From Manchester to the Mississippi
C P Lee
Produced by Nicola Sordes

28:01, 26279, S
02-Dec-2008
I Was Dudley Moore’s First Bandleader
Andrew McGibbon
Produced by Nick Romero

27:45, 26031, S
06-Jan-2008
Femme Fatale: The Story of Nico
Marc Riley
Produced by Nicola Swords

28:02, 26292, S
10-Feb-2009
Forever 22 – The Buddy Holly Story
Roger Daltrey
produced by John Sugar

28:15, 26486, S
27-Feb-2009
06-Mar-2009

Hairspray and Harmonies
Kit Hesketh-Harvey
produced by Lucy Lunt and Rosie Boulton

28:11, 26424, S
27:46, 26044, S

16-Apr-2009
The Broken Melody – the life of the
19th-century cellist Auguste van Biene
George Kennaway
produced by Paul Evans

27:59, 26247, S
23-May-2009
R.E.S.P.E.C.T – The Art of Backing Vocals
Nick Barraclough
28:01, 26280, S
27-Jul-2009 to
31-Jul-2009

Joan Armatrading’s Favourite Guitarists
  1. Mark Knopfler
  2. Bonnie Raitt
  3. John Williams
  4. Russell Lissack
  5. Bert Jansch
Joan Armatrading
Produced by Kate Bland and others

14:02, 13162, S
14:06, 13221, S
14:00, 13136, S
13:54, 13048, S
14:00, 13130, S

17-Nov-2009
The Inner World of Music
Matthew King
produced by Stephen Rajam

27:58, 26233, S
05-Dec-2009
Bob Marley – The Chrysler Year
Jonathan Charles
produced by David Prest

27:40, 25946, S
19-Dec-2009
Here We Come
the story of the Monkees
John Waite, Davy Jones
Producer: Deborah Dudgeon
27:53, 26154, S
05-Jun-2010 Music from Heaven, Paid for in Hell
Nicolo Paganini
Nicola Loud
produced by Joanna Smith
27:47, 26063, S
20-Jun-2010
The Big Noise
Lesley Riddoch
Producers: Amanda Hargreaves, Bronwen Tulloch

27:30, 25792, S
21-Sep-2010
Who Was Joyce Hatto?
the pianist embroiled in a fakery scandal
Anne Sebba
Producer: David Prest

27:42, 25985, S
12-Oct-2010
The Carl Rosa Opera
Keel Watson
Producer: Tom Alban

28:00, 26260, S
02-Nov-2010
Beat It – The World of The Modern Drummer
Phill Jupitus
Producer: John Sugar

27:55, 26186, S
16-Dec-2010
Joan Turner:
The Highs and Lows of the Wacky Warbler

Lesley Garrett
produced by Stephen Garner

28:05, 26345, S
21-Dec-2010
Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It
Rick Wakeman
produced by James Hale

28:02, 26290, S
14-May-2011
The Twangmasters:
The Art of the Lead Guitarist

Nick Barraclough
27:58, 26231, S
28-Nov-2011 to
02-Dec-2011

Joan Armatrading: More Guitar Favourites
  1. Alex Kapranos
  2. Sharon Isbin
  3. Richard Thompson
  4. Jennifer Batten
  5. Baaba Maal
Joan Armatrading
Produced by Kate Bland, Susan Marling

13:45, 12879, S
13:47, 12905, S
13:51, 12978, S
14:00, 13109, S
13:38, 12766, S

13-Apr-2011
Mr Suzuki’s Bach Passion
Roland Buerk
produced by Stephen Rodger

28:17, 26527, S
09-Sep-2011
Am I Tone Deaf?
Sathnam Sanghera
produced by Nicola Humphries

27:57, 26164, S
11-Oct-2011
The Thing about Hank – guitarist Hank Marvin
Presented by John Sugar
Producer: John Sugar

27:51, 26161, S
12-Nov-2011
The Mysterious Mr Mercury
Midge Ure
Producer: Melissa FitzGerald

27:53, 26102, S
24-Nov-2011
The Countertenor
Bidisha
produced by Nick Holmes

27:49, 26030, S
28-Apr-2012 The Qatar Philharmonic
Razia Iqbal
Produced by Francesca Panetta and Lucy Greenwell
27:35, 25814, S
01-May-2012 Conjuring Halie -- Mahalia Jackson
Cerys Matthews
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
27:34, 25800, S
03-Jul-2012 Changing My Voice
Christopher Gabbitas
Producer: Emma Kingsley
27:33, 25777, S
02-Oct-2012 The Voices of Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
Produced by Alan Hall
27:46, 25994, S
04-Dec-2012 Rebuilding the LSO
Matthew Bannister   
Producer: Philippa Goodrich
27:43, 25938, S
09-Apr-2013
Comme Je Suis - Sketches of Juliette Greco
Laura Barton
Produced by Alan Hall
27:42, 25956, S
25-May-2013
Choristers of the Coronation
Producer: Andrew Green
27:50, 26092, S
01-Jun-2013
Nightingales of India
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Producer: Mohini Patel
27:38, 25912, S
17-Nov-2013
Who Was Bix Beiderbecke

13:51, 12884, S
BBC R4X
28-Mar-2015
Inside the Music: From Score to Encore
Gavin Henderson
produced by Mike Greenwood
178:36, 167118, S

Classical Music
See also
Adventures in Good Music
All Classical Music Explained
All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right Order
Incomplete And Utter History Of Classical Music, The
Key Matters
Page to Performance
Real History of Opera, The
Tales from the Stave
Robert Winston’s Musical Analysis 
Date Title Cast Parameters
25-Oct-2001
Requiem
Martin Neary
Producer: Paul Evans
27:29, 27985, S
10-May-2004 to
24-May-2004
Interpretations
  1. Bach's Fifth Cello Suite
  2. Rosalind in Shakespeare's As You Like It
  3. Fidelio
  1. Steven Isserlis, Ralph Kirshbaum
  2. Juliet Stephenson, Nina Sosanya
  3. Peter Hall, Graham Vick
Producer: Lucy Lunt
28:35, 13405, m
28:27, 13344, m
28:23, 13307, m

09-Aug-2005
The Quality of Mercy
Kyrie Eleison
Producer: Sara Conkey
27:38, 25916, S
23-Aug-2005
Pomp and Circumstance
Paul Vaughan
Producer: Richard Bannerman
28:07, 26370, S
03-Dec-2005
Peter and the Wolf
Rainer Hersch, Richard Baker, Terry Wogan,
Angela Rippon, Floella Benjamin
Producer: Tom Alban
28:13, 26458, S
21-Feb-2006
Miserere
Gregorio Allegri’s iconic Lenten choral work
Roy Goodman
Produced by Simon Vivian

27:52, 26138, S
11-May-2006
The Piano Man
The story of Paolo Fazioli
Philip Pope
Produced by Bruce Hyman

27:45, 26031, S
16-May-2006
Why is the 1812 So Popular?
Alasdair Malloy
Produced by Richard Bannerman

27:57, 26218, S
29-Aug-2005
Divine Voices 
Russian Orthodox church music
Michael Bourdeaux
Produced by Christine Pommert

27:46, 26045, S
31-Oct-2006
English Hymnal
Ian Bradley
Produced by Mark O’Brien

27:57, 26207, S
13-Feb-2006
Who Wrote Bach’s Toccata?
Simon Townley
Produced by Chris Taylor

28:01, 26280, S
22-May-2007
Elgar’s Dream
Matthew King
Produced by Paul Evans

28:07, 26368, S
03-Jul-2007
The Final Word
Amen
David Owen Norris
Produced by Andrew Greene

28:01, 26267, S
14-Aug-2007
Magnificat
Hugh Dennis
Produced by Philippa Goodrich

28:15, 26498, S
18-Dec-2007
Comparing Notes – Handel’s Messiah
Simon Halsey and Harry Christophers
Produced by Sarah Lefroi-Owen,
Rosie Boulton

28:07, 26373, S
25-Dec-2007
01-Jan-2008

To Sing Like Bing
Alyn Shipton
Produced by Paul Evans

28:06, 26350, S
28:01, 26276, S

04-Mar-2008
In Search of Tristan
Twm Morys
Produced by Chris Taylor
Readings by Siriol Jenkins

27:49, 26085, S
18-Nov-2008
Celebrating Cecilia – St Cecilia’s Day
Catherine Bott
produced by Simon Hollis

28:33, 26769, S
23-Dec-2008
Christmas Past and Present at King’s
Brian Kay
Produced by Michael Surcombe

27:48, 26079, S
07-Apr-2009
Hallelujah
Jocelyn Pook
produced by Kate Bland

28:26, 26671, S
11-Aug-2009
Tales Before the Stave
11th century Winchester Troper
Frances Fyfield
produced by Tom Alban

27:55, 26179, S
01-Oct-2009
Encore!
Guy Garvey
produced by Ian Bent

27:47, 26059, S
20-Oct-2009
The Sound of Magnolias
Rodrigo’s famous Concerto de Aranjuez
Irma Kurtz
produced by Laura Parfit

28:04, 26315, S
10-Apr-2010
Smash Hit of 1453 – L’Homme Arme
Rainer Hersch
producers Richard Bannerman, Merilyn Harris

27:46, 26036, S
01-Jun-2010
The FAE Sonata by Robert Schumann
Tom Robinson
Producer: Alan Hall

27:44, 26007, S





06-Mar-2012 Bach's Choir Stephen Evans
Produced by Martin Smith
27:40, 25886, S
10-Jul-2012 Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned Peggy Reynolds
produced by Stephen Rodgem
27:53, 26094, S
25-Mar-2013 The Butterfly Effect Amanda Roocroft
produced by Stephen Garner
27:50, 26049, S
30-Apr-2013
07-May-2013
Richard Wagner - Power, Sex and Revolution
Paul Mason
produced by Michael Circum
27:46, 26022, S
27:45, 26005, S
24-Apr-2007 to
15-May-2007
The Enigma I Will Not Explain
Ruth Padel
Produced by Emma Kingsley
14:18, 13413, S
14:08, 13256, S
13:59, 13123, S
13:52, 13007, S

Musicals, Operettas, Music Halls
See also
The Anatomy of a Musical
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
22-Jan-2004
The Man Who Invented the Broadway Sound
Jeremy Sams
Producer: Dave Batchelor
27:59, 19679, S
20-Sep-2005
Pinafores, Buttercups and Bagels
Gilbert and Sullivan Yiddish Light Opera Company
Ian Bradley
Producer: Paul Evans
28:10, 26407, S
04-Oct-2005
11-Oct-2005
Sweet Nothings: the Story of Musical Comedy
Ned Sherrin
Producer Libby Cross
28:01, 26269, S
27:52, 26126, S
03-Oct-2006 to
17-Oct-2006
Anatomy of a Musical
  1. The Opener
  2. The Love Song
  3. The Take Home Number
Russell Davies
Produced by Marilyn Harris

27:41, 25960, S
27:45, 26017, S
27:50, 26109, S
31-Dec-2006
Opening Nights – West Side Story
Russell Davies
Produced by Richard Bannerman

28:03, 26310, S
19-Jun-2012 The Songs of Milne -- composer Harold Fraser-Simson
Presenter: John Kember
baritone Richard Burkhard John
Producer: Kate Howells
27:40, 25898, S
See Drama/Readings
under Milne, AA
25-Dec-2012 Grease Was Our World
Alan Dein, Jim Jacobs
Producer: Mark Burman
27:50, 26047, S

Jazz and Rock
See also
Ken Clarke’s Jazz Greats
Date Title Cast Parameters
BBC R2
02-Aug-1984 to
16-Aug-1984
The History of Rock (humor)
Narrated by Chris Langham,Mark Arden,
Janice Cramer , Steve Frost,Philip Pope
Producer: Jamie Rix
3 files
1:18:35, 71.9 MB,
S
02-Mar-2004
In the Glenn Miller Mood
Simon Townley
Produced by Tom Auburn
28:19, 26554, S
20-May-2004
A Jazz Celebration for Ascension Day
Singers: BBC Daily Service Singers
Singers: Exultate Singers
Musicians: Big Buzzard Boogie Band
Directed by: David Ogden
Preacher: Rt. Rev. James Jones
Producer: Stephen Shipley
57:27, 53860, S
2005
BBC R7
11-Apr-2011
Fifty Years around the Clock
Tony Wilson, CP Lee, Vini Reilly, Cliff
Richard, Neil Sedaka, Michael Grade
27:43, 25999, S
05-Nov-2005 to
19-Nov-2005
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
Humphrey Lyttelton
Producer: Stephen Garner
28:06, 26345, S
28:18, 26534, S
28:23, 26620, S
04-Oct-2005
Ragtime
Wayne Marshall
Producer Megan Jones
28:45, 26954, S
22-Oct-2005
Soul Self Satisfaction: the Story of Northern Soul
CP Lee
Producer Paul Hardy
28:08, 26382, S
03-Nov-2005
Hip-Hop Central
Nige Tassell
Producer: Paul Dodgson
27:58, 26232, S
22-Nov-2005
29-Nov-2005
06-Dec-2005
Blowing the Music Away
New Orleans music after Katrina
Stephen Evans
Produced by Paul Evans
28:06, 26352, S
28:04, 26322, S
27:53, 26156, S
31-Dec-2005
Ian Dury at the BBC
Paul Dodgson
Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith
28:13, 26461, S
01-Apr-2006
02-Jan-2007

My Wizard
Progressive rock
John Aizlewood
Produced by Phil Ward Large

28:16, 26505, S
02-May-2006
The King of the Swingers
The Louis Prima story
Humphrey Lyttelton
Produced by James Crawford

28:07, 26375, S
10-Jun-2006 to
24-Jun-2006

School of Rock
  1. Folk, Jazz, and Rock’n’Roll
  2. From Glory Days to Disco
  3. Live at Leeds Again
Andy Kershaw
Produced by Maria Burgess

28:14, 26480, S
28:10, 26413, S
28:26, 26661, S

22-Aug-2005
Women in Jazz
Cleo Lane
Produced by Sophie Thomas

28:04, 26328, S
07-Oct-2006
13-Jan-2007

Freak Out! The Frank Zappa Story
Germaine Greer
Produced by Nick Barraclough

28:05, 26329, S
14-Oct-2006
Chuck Berry at 80
Paul Gambaccini
Produced by Marc Ricards
27:49, 26083, S
21-Aug-2003
R7:
30-Nov-2006

Jazz to the Rescue
1952 flood support benefit
John Fordham
Produced by John Goudie

27:49, 26093, S
27-Feb-2007
Ronnie’s Last Show
Ronnie Hawkins
Gerry Anderson
Produced by Peter Everett

28:09, 26399, S
14-Apr-2007
24-Sep-2007

Hit the Road Stax
Paul Gamabaccini
Roduced by John Sugar

28:15, 26500, S
12-May-2007
19-May-2007

Rocking Scots
Midge Ure
Produced by Melissa Fitzgerald

28:11, 26436, S
27:47, 26050, S

10-Jul-2007
17-Jul-2007

From Motown to Murder Inc
Jacqueline Springer
Produced by Emma Kingsley

28:06, 26354, S
28:06, 26352, S

22-Nov-2007
Kraftwerk: We Are the Robots
Marc Riley
Produced by Cecile Wright

27:52, 26140, S
12-Apr-2012 Who's Angry Now? -- contemporary British protest music John Harris
Producer: Simon Jacobs
27:47, 26002, S
26-Jun-2007
Rockin' against Racism
Mark Steel
Produced by Alison Vernon Smith

28:05, 26329, S
04-Aug-2007
11-Aug-2007

The Elvis Effect
David Stafford
Produced by Madeleine Brawley

28:21, 26579, S
28:11, 26431, S

15-Sep-2007
King Size Papas and Mighty Tight Women
Julian Clary
Produced by Paul Slade, Emily Williams

28:08, 26392, S
03-Jan-2008
Metal at 40
Emily Booth
Produced by Bob Dickinson

28:07, 26376, S
12-Feb-2008
The Jazz Baroness
Hannah Rothschild
Produced by David Perry

28:08, 26378, S
05-Apr-2008
This Are 2 Tone
Phill Jupitus
Produced by Geoff Bird

28:13, 26467, S
11-Nov-2008
50 Years of Little Richard
Sarfraz Manzoor
Produced by Mark Rickards

28:04, 26318, S
07-Jul-2009
John Mayall’s Blues Adventures
John Mayall
produced by Sarah Cudden

27:59, 26245, S
14-Mar-2010
Women of the New Wave
women who were in the vanguard of punk music
Pauline Black
produced by Maggie Ayr

27:55, 26184, S
15-Apr-2010
Black and White Towns
the influence of the suburbs in British rock music
John Harris
produced by Simon Jacobs

27:45, 26029, S
26-Jun-2010
Lady Plays the Blues
Cerys Matthews
Producer: Jo Meek

27:53, 26155, S
19-Jul-2010 to
16-Aug-2010

Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star
Alan Johnson
produced by Stephanie Power

13:58, 13104, S
14:00, 13129, S
13:59, 13111, S
13:44, 12889, S
13:57, 13090, S

19-Aug-2010
Ziggy Stardust Came from Isleworth
Martyn Day
produced by Bob Dickinson

28:13, 26463, S
24-Aug-2010
Star Spangled Hendrix
Tom Robinson
Producer: John Sugar

27:56, 26190, S
16-Nov-2010
Jazz Frenzy
The Dave Burman Jazz Group in Poland, 1956
Producer and Presenter: Mark Burman
27:55, 26184, S
23-Nov-2010
Arise Black Man: The Peter Tosh Story
Don Letts
produced by James Hale

27:56, 26203, S
02-Dec-2010
Brubeck at 90
Paul Gambaccini
Producer: John Sugar

28:05, 26329, S
28-Dec-2010
The British Reggae Revolution
Don Letts
27:55, 26183, S
03-Mar-2011
Liberty, Fraternity, Anarchy – Le Punk Francais

Andrew Hussey
produced by Geoof Bird

27:52, 26132, S
16-Apr-2011
Sylvie Simmons: The Rock Chick
Sylvie Simmons
Producer: Nick Barraclough

27:58, 26230, S
09-Jun-2011
The Twilight World of Syd Barrett
John Harris
Producer: John Sugar

28:05, 26338, S
12-Jul-2011
Late Nights at the Blue Boar
Pete Paphides
Producer: Laura Parfitt

27:44, 25948, S
12-Dec-2011
When the Levee Breaks – Memphis Minnie
Mark Lamarr
Producer: Rob Alexander

27:38, 25863, S
17-May-2012
24-May-2012
31-May-2012
Follow-Up Albums
  1. Dexys Midnight Runners: Don't Stand Me Down
  2. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
  3. Suede - Dog Man Star
Pete Paphides
Produced by Laura Parfitt
27:39, 25874, S
27:30, 25745, S
27:48, 26014, S
23-Jun-2012 The Stardust Memories --
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 40th anniversary
Midge Ure
Producer: Melissa FitzGerald
27:53, 26099, S
05-Jul-2012 The Godfather of Ulster Punk Alan Dein
Producer: Conor Garrett
27:38, 25855, S
23-Aug-2012 Rock 'n' Roll in Four Movements Stuart Maconie
produced by Nick Homes
27:39, 25872
16-Oct-2012 Spellbound: Siouxsie and the Banshees Miranda Sawyer
James W Roberts
27:38, 25858, S
18-Dec-2012 Riot Grrrls Produced by Eleanor McDowall 27:17, 25536, S
20-Dec-2012 Neil Tennant's Smash Hits Christmas Neil Tennant
Producer: Susan Marlin
27:46, 25992, S
31-Dec-2012 Roger, the Eagle Has Landed Mark Radcliffe
produced by Bob Dickinson
27:46, 25987, S
01-Jan-2012 Jazz Is Dead Paul Morley
produced by Martin Williams
27:38, 25870, S
2008
BBC TV4
24-Feb-2013
The Swing Thing narrated by Kenneth Cranham
produced and directed by Alan Lewens
MP4 VIDEO
89:35, 985755
12-Mar-2013 Feel the Chant: The Brit Funk Story David Grant
produced by Stephen Garner
27:51, 26086, S
20-Jul-2013
Twelve Bar Blues
Nick Barraclough
Producer: John Leonard
27:43, 25941, S

Folk and Popular Music

A-Z of Easy Listening, The
Beatles Story, The
The Playlist Series
Date Title Cast Parameters
11-Nov-1999
Can Chipmunks Sing?
John Walters
Reader Kerry Shale
Producer: Mark Farrar
Written By: Bob Sinfleld
27:56, 25786, S
24-Jun-2003 to
08-Jul-2003
R7
Armitage and Moore's Guide to Song
  1. narrators, characters and personas
  2. musical arrangement and vocal expression
  3. What songs mean and their significance
  1. Simon Armitage, Allan Moore, Barb Jungr
  2. Simon Armitage, Allan Moore, June Tabor
  3. Simon Armitage, Allan Moore, Tom McRae
produced by Rob Ketteridge
27:41, 25959, S
27:36, 25887, S
27:44, 26012, S
06-Mar-2004
13-Mar-2004
On the Hillbilly Trail
  1. Comings and Goings
  2. From Log Cabin to White House
Gerry Anderson
The Ulster Scots Folk Band
Produced by Peter Everett
28:09, 26392, S
28:01, 26269, S
R4:
29-May-2004
repeated
2007, 2009
Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover
Ian Hislop, Vera Lynn
Produced by Philip Sellers
27:51, 26123, S
05-Jul-2005
Putting on the Style
Skiffle
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Marya Burgess
28:12, 26440, S
16-Aug-2005
Le Tops des Pops
French pop music
Muriel Zagha
Producer: Sara Jane Hall
28:17, 26525, S
29-Oct-2005
Rhapsody in Bohemia
Hilary Finch, Jane Manning, Rob Comber, Andy
Watts, Tommy Pearson, Andrew McGregor,
Joby Talbot
Producer Alan Hall
27:55, 26173, S
09-Apr-2006
Land of My Fathers
Story of the Welsh National Anthem
Bryn Terfel with Katherine Jenkins, Dame Tanni
Grey Thompson, Max Boyce
Written and produced by Terry Lewis

14:05, 13212, S
25-Jul-2006
to
08-Aug-2006

The Art of Pop
Art schools and pop musicians
Jarvis Cocker
Produced by Bob Dickinson

28:45, 26963, S
28:27, 26677, S
28:33, 26780, S

BBC R4
09-Aug-2006 to
23-Aug-2006
More than Just a Song
  1. Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika (God Save Africa)
  2. This Land Is Your Land
  3. Okie from Muskogee
Robin Denselow
Producer Chris Bond
14:15, 13368, S
14:36, 13693, S
14:05, 13211, S
BBC R4
06-Nov-2006 to
10-Nov-2006
Highland Hip
Sally Magnusson
Producer: Claire White
5 files
1:09:35, 63.7 MB, S
05-Aug-2006
16-Jan-2007
R7:
22-Sep-2010

The Pickwick Poppers
Musicians behind the Top Of The Pops albums of the 1970s

Stuart Maconie
Produced by John Byrne

27:52, 26129, S
15-Aug-2005
Send in the Clones
Tribute Bands
Andrew Collins
Produced by Ben Newdie and Wise Gooder

28:03, 26308, S
21-Oct-2006
19-Apr-2007

Video Killed the Musician
MTV 25th anniversary
Harry Allen
Produced by Miles Warde

28:26, 26668, S
20-Nov-2006 to
24-Nov-2006

Joan’s Irish Journey
Joan Armatrading
Produced by Susan Marling

13:54, 13040, S
14:09, 13274, S
14:03, 13176, S
14:03, 13179, S
14:14, 13360, S

12-Dec-2006
Master Harper
Catrin Finch
Produced by Paul Evans

28:02, 26296, S
09-Jan-2007
Please Stand
God Save the Queen
Tommy Pearson
Produced by Alan Hall

27:47, 26058, S
10-May-2007
11-Dec-2007

A Three Minute Education
David Hepworth
Produced by Erin Reilly

28:05, 26329, S
01-Jun-2007
Songs Your Godmother Should Know
Hilary Finch and her goddaughter Tamasin
Produced by Alan Hall

28:11, 26433, S
09-Jun-2007
Guerrillas of Pop
Tim Samuels
Produced by Sarah Bowen

28:06, 26359, S
12-Jun-2007
The Sad Bells of Rhymney
Huw Williams
Darren Broome

28:08, 26380, S
03-Jul-2007
Well Met in Woolton
50th anniversary of Lennon and McCartney
first meeting
Produced by Marya Burgess
28:27, 26676, S
06-Jul-2007
BBC R7
09-Oct-2010
Lennon: The Wenner Tapes
Jann Wenner, Yoko Ono
56:43, 53187, S
21-Jul-2007
28-Jul-2007

California Dreaming 
  1. Laurel Canyon
  2. Life in the Fast Lane
Andy Parfitt
Produced by Simon Jacobs

28:34, 26791, S
27:56, 26200, S

28-Aug-2007
Songs of Praise
The Rise and Fall of the West Gallery

John Florance
Produced by Paul Evans

28:08, 26391, S
02-Sep-2007 to
16-Sep-2007
--
22-Dec-2008 to
26-Dec-2008

Songs Everlasting
  1. Myfanwy
  2. Cwm Rhondda
  3. Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn
  4. Unto Us a Child Is Born
  5. Deck the Halls
  6. Ave Maria
  7. Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Bryn Terfel
Produced by Flinoss Jones

14:07, 13236, S
13:49, 12954, S
14:04, 13189, S
--
13:46, 12911, S
14:00, 13134, S
14:04, 13189, S
14:02, 13162, S

11-Sep-2007
18-Sep-2007

I Should Be Proud

Martha Reeves
Produced by Simon Hollis

28:34, 26784, S
28:34, 26783, S

25-Sep-2007
The Story of Flowers in the Rain
Tony Blackburn
Produced by Sian Price

27:56, 26198, S
02-Oct-2007
Who Likes Techno?
Toby Amies
Produced by Clinoss Jones

27:57, 26217, S
02-Nov-2007
Great Aunt Mary’s Tune
Mary Neal
Lucy Neal
Produced by Beattie Rubens

27:52, 26138, S
15-Dec-2007
Pop in Translation
Mark Radcliffe
Produced by Robert Noakes

27:55, 26173, S
18-Jan-2008
Burdon’s Journey
The House of the Rising Sun
Eric Burdon
Produced by Martin Kurzig

7:59, 26247, S
12-Feb-2008
The Strange Parallel World of Christian Pop
Paul Bayley
Produced by Bob Dickinson

27:47, 26054, S
28-Feb-2008
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Tracey McLeod
Paul Hardy

28:15, 26496, S
20-Mar-2008
How Robin Ince Got His Groove Back
Robin Ince
Produced by Clare Bartlett

28:12, 26442, S
2004
04-May-2008

Bye Bye Lullaby
Kim Normanton
Produced by Nigel Acheson

28:01, 26279, S
01-Jul-2008
The Lost Beatles Interview
Helen Shapiro
Producer: Howard Shannon
28:10, 26430, S
02-Aug-2008
Leonard and Marianne
The Love Affair behind So Long Marianne
With Kerrie Hestheimer
Produced by Alan Hall

28:14, 26478, S
26-Aug-2008
40 Years from Folsom – The Johnny Cash Concert
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jo Meek

28:20, 26564, S
21-Mar-2009
Music to Drive to
James May
produced by Rosie Boulton

27:48, 26046, S
11-Jun-2009
Burl Ives
CP Lee
produced by Bob Dickinson

27:47, 26049, S
BBC R7
13-Jun-2009
to
11-Jul-2009
Charles Parker and The Radio Ballad
  1. The Ballad of John Axon (02/07/58)
  2. The Travelling People (17/04/64)
  3. The Song of Steel (13/02/06)
  4. the Song of a Road (1959)
  5. Singing the Fishing (1960)
  6. The Big Hewer (1961)
Tim Blackmore and Gillian Reynolds
53:06, 49794, S
63:12, 59255, S
60:46, 56983, S
25-Jun-2009
The Spirit of Grunge
Miranda Sawyer
Producer: Vivienne Perry
28:15, 26499, S
11-Jul-2009
18-Jul-2009
Tarantino's Jukebox
Quentin Tarantino, Robert Ziegler,
Mary Wilson, Paul Gambaccini
Producer: David Roper
28:16, 26513, S
27:44, 26010, S
13-Oct-2009
Mitch Benn’s Wondrous Stories
Mitch Benn
produced by Jackie Curfoys,David Dodd

27:36, 25890, S
05-Jan-2010
The Rock Island Line
Huw Williams
28:00, 26258, S
13-Mar-2010
Ali: When Cassius Met The Beatles
John Wilson
produced by John Goudie

27:52, 26131, S
07-Sep-2010
In Search of the Singing Postman
– Allan Smethurst
DJ Taylor
produced by Nicola Swords

27:55, 26173, S
R7:
27-Sep-2010

Seeds of Love
story of Cecil Sharp, collector of folk songs
Malcolm Taylor
produced by Julian May

27:55, 26187, S
19-Oct-2010
Peggy Seeger: In Her Prime
Sara Parker
Producer: Alan Hall

27:51, 26117, S
09-Nov-2010
Once in a Blue Moon: The Songs of Lal Waterson

Robin Denselow
Producer: Emma Kingsley

27:49, 25939, S
2005
BBC R7
09-Nov-2010

James Last - Non Stop Party People
Paul Gambaccini
Producer: Mark Rickards
26:19, 24768. S
21-May-2011
Falling for Francoise
John Andrew
Producer: Alan Hall

27:42, 25975, S
24-May-2011
Blowing in the Wind: Dylan’s Spiritual Journey
Emma Freud
Producer: John Sugar

28:06, 26351, S
02-Jun-2011
Sore Fingers – bluegrass in the Cotswolds
Produced by Lindsay Leonard
27:52, 26142, S
21-Jun-2011
Free Wales Harmony: When Pop Went Welsh
Andy Votel
produced by James Hale

27:59, 26240, S
25-Jun-2011
Taboo be Doo
politically incorrect songs of the last 100 years
Terence Blacker
Producer: Jane Greenwood

27:48, 26065, S
28-Jun-2011
The Politics of Dancing: How Disco Changed the World
Martha Reeves
Producer: Simon Hollis

28:07, 26369, S
17-Dec-2011
Pop Goes the Bible!
Paul Gambaccini
Producer: Richard Bannerman

27:42, 25923, S
03-Jan-2012 How Folk Songs Should Be Sung Martin Carthy
Producers: Genevieve Tudor and
Chris Eldon Lee
27:40, 25898, S
08-Mar-2012 In the Lounge with Rich Morton Rich Morton
Producer: Paul Bajoria
27:51, 26058, S
22-Mar-2012 The Topping Tooters of the Town --
the music of the Waits
William Lyons
Producer: Kate Bland
27:56,
24-Apr-2012 Folk Song, Art Song Christopher Maltman
Producer: Tom Alban
27:44, 25950, S
08-May-2012 The First LP in Ireland Presenter: Colum Sands
Producer: Owen McFadden
27:35, 25813, S
01-Jun-2012 The DJ Derek: A Local Legend Miles Chambers
Producer: Sarah Langan
28:00, 26210, S
26-Jun-2012 John Barry - The Lost Tapes Eddi Fiegel
Producer: John Sugar
27:46, 25990, S
27-Sep-2012 Big Shot -- Pop Managers Paul Morley
Produced by John Sugar
27:54, 26109, S
17-Nov-2012 Alice's Restaurant Ian McMillan
Producer: Lucy Lunt
27:59, 26194, S
20-Nov-2012 Blues Run the Game Laura Barton
Producer: Martin Williams
27:36, 25826, S
24-Nov-2012 Eddie Goes Country Eddie Mair
Producers: Jo Coombs and Stewart Henderson
27:32, 25775, S
03-Dec-2012 Songs of the Sacred Harp Cerys Matthews
Produced by Joby Waldman
27:43, 25941, S
21-Jan-2013 to
25-Jan-2013
The Alien Balladeer
  1. The Ballad of the Naked Rambler
  2. The God Shaped Hole
  3. The Glastonbury Tatter
  4. The Pole Dancer's Lament
  5. The Soldier's Story
Murray Lachlan Young, Bess Cavendish
Producer: Adam Fowler
13:37, 12751, S
13:44, 12863, S
13:33, 12688, S
13:33, 12693, S
13:45, 12872, S
31-Jan-2013 The Art of Sequencing Guy Garvey
Produced by Nick Homes
27:51, 26058, S
02-Apr-2013 Julie Fowlis' Heritage Well Julie Fowlis
Producer: Kellie While
28:08, 26237, S
27-Apr-2013
Building Bridges - The Art of the Middle 8
Midge Ure
Produced by Trevor Dann
27:51, 26119, S
09-Dec-2013 to
20-Dec-2013
A Cause for Caroling
  1. A Carol's a Carol, to Begin With
  2. Spreading the Medieval Word Made Flesh
  3. From Coventry to Agincourt
  4. Carol Crisis? What Crisis?
  5. The Ghosts of the West Gallery
    omnibus 1 Forging a Tradition
  6. A Second Golden Age
  7. Folk Carol Survival and Revival
  8. The Birth of Nine Lessons with Carols
  9. Import and Export
  10. Ring in the New
    omnibus 2 Joy to the World
Jeremy Summerly
Producer:Tom Alban
13:49, 12942, S
13:44, 12859, S
13:55, 13028, S
13:48, 12928, S
13:47, 12902, S
56:42, 53046, S
13:51, 12969, S
13:52, 12986, S
13:52, 12980, S
13:59, 13096, S
13:52, 12982, S
MISSING

World Music
Date Title Cast Parameters
12-Jul-2005 to
26-Jul-2005
World Sounds
Mark Coles, Damon Albarn, Peter
Gabriel, Ali Farka Toure, Baaba Maal,
Taj Mahal
Producer Rebecca Stratford
3 files
1:23:44, 76.3 MB, S
03-Jan-2006
The Club of Small Men
Balinese gamelan for boys

Maria Bakkalapulo
Readings by William Hope
Produced by Sarah Jane Hall

28:38, 26858, S
24-Apr-2007
One Woman’s Struggle
Kanya King, founder of the Music of Black Origin Awards
June Sapong
Produced by Howard Shallin

27:51, 26126, S
26-Jun-2007
The Boys from the Bush
The Bhundu Boys
Robin Denselow
Produced by Richard Mcilroy

27:49, 26091, S
07-Aug-2007
Balkan Beats
Nick Hawton
Produced by Jo Meek

28:15, 26495, S
21-Aug-2007
Nusrat Was My Elvis
Navid Akhtar
Produced by Nikita Gulhane

28:02, 26287, S
20-Nov-2007
Ketubah
a reconstructed Lithuanian Jewish wedding in 1914
Max Reinhardt
Produced by Katherine Wilgress

28:58, 27162, S
24-Nov-2007
19-Feb-2008

The Nun Who Nurtured Reggae
Jonathon Charles
Produced by David Prest

28:21, 26593, S
13-May-2008
The Blues Dance
Jamaican private clubs in Britain
Don Letts
Produced by Sue Clark, Kate Bland

28:09, 26403, S
08-Jul-2008
The Greek Blues
Peter Paphides
Produced by Laura Parfitt

28:14, 26478, S
28-Jul-2009
Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields
Robin Denselow
produced by Sarah Sarah Cudden

28:58, 27158, S
19-Sep-2009
Youssou N’Dour at 50: Africa’s Greatest Star
Robin Denselow
produced by Simon Jacobs

28:10, 26420, S
24-Nov-2009
Nightingale of the Nile – Umm Kulthum
Justin Adams
produced by Russell Finch

28:20, 26572, S
30-Mar-2010
Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero
Nitin Sawhney
produced by James Hale

27:58, 26223, S
08-Jun-2010
Chopsticks at Dawn
Anna Chen
Producer: Chris Eldon Lee

27:48, 26074, S
31-Aug-2010
Serbian Trumpets
Llywelyn Ap Myrddin
Producer: Kate Bland

27:55, 26180, S
30-Dec-2010
The Israeli Madonna – Ofra Haza
Pete Paphides
Producer: Laura Parfitt

27:49, 26085, S
BBC R7
26-Jan-2001
Ay Mariachi
Neil McCarthy
27:40, 25947, S
08-Feb-2011
The Music That Melted
the Ice Music of Norway
Richard Coles
Producer: Sara Jane Hall

27:54, 25986, S
19-Jun-2011
Return to Joujouka
The Master Musicians of Joujouka
Neil McCarthy
Producer Mark Burman

27:32, 25816, S
16-Jul-2011
Barry Humphries in Weimar
Barry Humphries
Producer: Hannah Rosenfelder

27:54, 26115, S
17-Jul-2011
The Power of Om
Richard Coles
Producer: Victoria Shepherd

27:58, 26177, S
29-Mar-2012 North of the Border - The Rise of Mexican Music Robin Denselow
Producer: Chris Elcombe
27:44, 25962, S
05-Jun-2012 Modern Day Griot --
West African oral historians, advisors, story-tellers
and musicians
Gaylene Gould
Producer Claire Bartleet
27:37, 25914, S
07-Sep-2012 Hearing Ragas Paul Robertson, John Tavener
Producer: Rosie Boulton
27:41, 25914, S
26-Dec-2012 Bellydancing and the Blues Guy Schalom
produced by Micheal Circum
27:42, 25922, S
15-Jan-2013 Baaba Maal and the Senegalese Kingdom of Music Adrian Brendel
produced by Kate Bland
27:37, 25886, S
17-Jan-2013 Cornershop Chris Hawkins
produced by Cecile Wright
27:48, 26018, S
29-Mar-2013 Studio in the Sand Robin Denselow
Produced by Victoria Shepherd
27:58, 26204, S

Venues, Composers
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
BBC R2
08-Sep-1998 to
29-Sep-1998
George Gershwin: a Stairway to Paradise
Wayne Marshall
Producer Graham Pass
55:42, 78331, S
56:24, 79322, S
56:16, 79132, S
56:58, 80131, S
15-Jan-2004
Music and the Method
Ivan Hewett
Producer: Rachel Hopkin
27:49, 19563, S
17-Feb-2004
BBC R7
07-Dec-2010
The Innermost Master
JS Bach and the d minor Partita for Solo Violin
Paul Robertson
Produced by Paul Edmonds
27:34, 25849, S
23-Oct-2003
Rebroadcast R4
26-Apr-2004
Setting Brunel to Music
Fiona Talkington, Matthew King, Nye Parry
Producer: Lyndon Jones
28:07, 13188, m
22KHz at BBC
21-Dec-2004
17-Jul-2006
R7:
20-Sep-2010

Smile, Smile, Smile
The Life of Felix Powell,
the Composer of “Pack Up Your Troubles”
Aled Jones
Produced by Geoff Ballinger

28:00, 26258, S
20-May-2005
Gloster Stuff
Lionel Kelleway
Producer: Paul Evans
28:00, 26251, S
21-Jun-2005
The First Glastonbury Festival: Summer 1914
Ian McMillan
Producer: Emma Kingsley
28:18, 26545, S
BBC R4
20-Nov-2005 to
18-Dec-2005
Composers in the Countryside
  1. Elgar's Caractacus
  2. Peter Grimes
  3. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
  4. Holst's Egdon Heath
  5. Herbert Howells in Gloucestershire
Simon Halsey
Producer: Sara Conkey
14:03, 13174, S
14:15, 13361, S
13:42, 12856, S
13:29, 12651, S
13:58, 13097, S
24-Nov-2005
Surrounded!
theatre-in-the-round in Scarborough
Robert Powell, Alan Ayckbourn, Tom Courtenay,
Peter Cheeseman, Alison Chitty, Martin Carthy,
Producers: Faynia Williams, Richard Bannerman
27:51, 26121, S
25-Nov-2005
Engines on Song
Chris Rea, Jeff Beck, Alun Lewis, James May
Producer: Helen Sharp
13:52, 13007, S
25-Dec-2005
Mozart 40
Huw Edwards
Producer: Martin Smith
57:07, 53558, S
09-May-2006
Tinker, Tailor, Composer, Spy
The story of Elizabeth Poston
Kenneth Shenton
Produced by David Perry

28:13, 26460, S
27-Jun-2006
A People’s Music
100th anniversary of the birth of
Dmitri Shostakovich
Ruth Palmer
Directed by Tim Meara and
Fergus Micklejohn

28:18, 26548, S
13-Jan-2007
Inside the Cavern
Liverpool’s Cavern Club
Midge Ure
Produced by Joe Koons, Stuart Henderson

28:13, 26455, S
30-Jan-2007
The Eel Pie Island Hotel
Jazz venue on the Thames
Paul Jones
Produced by Joe Meek

28:20, 26572, S
25-Mar-2007
Landlocked in Krakow – Sea Shanty Festival
John Hegley
Produced by Gareb Young

28:13, 26456, S
03-Apr-2007
Accidental Beauties of Silly Songs
Auden Centenary
Alexander McCall Smith
Produced by Joe Wheeler

27:51, 26115, S
17-May-2007
18-May-2007
Spitting Bars
Directed by Lucy Hannah
Producer Marilyn Imrie
13:56, 13072, S
14:36, 13701, S

24-Jul-2007
World of WOMAD
Nitin Sawhney
Produced by Julia Hayball

28:14, 26472, S
31-Jul-2007
The Song Doctor
Stephen Evans, Rick Rubin
Produced by Paul Evans

28:11, 26425, S
24-Aug-2007
The Most Valuable Notes in History
Vincent Graf
Produced by Simon Hollis

14:25, 13530, S
03-Oct-2007
10-Oct-2007
17-Oct-2007

The Return of the Town Hall
Birmingham Town Hall
Reeta Chakrabarti
Produced by Karen Gregor

28:13, 26460,S
28:24, 26627, S
28:10, 26407, S

23-Feb-2008
The king of Light Music
Eric Coates
Alasdair Molloy
Produced by Richard Bannerman

28:21, 26583, S
15-Jul-2008
Vaughan Williams: Late Love, Late Life
Julian Lloyd Webber
Produced by Andrew Greene

28:08, 26382, S
01-Nov-2008
The Morricone Affair
Christopher Frayling, Goldfrapp, Chris Rea, Nitin
Sawhney, Anne Billson, Andrew Paresi
Producer: Sarah Cuddon
28:17, 16527, S
06-Dec-2008
Talking about Lionel
the story of composer Lionel Bart

Eddie Mair
Produced by Joe Coombs and Stuart Henderson

27:58, 26226, S
09-Dec-2008
The Golden Oriole
Olivier Messiaen’s fascination for using birdsong

Stephen Moss
Readings by Alistair Cameron
Produced by Megan Jones

28:19, 26554, S
16-Dec-2008
Puccini: Touched by the Little Finger of
the Almighty

James Naughtie
Produced by Joe Smith

28:14, 26475, S
25-Nov-2008
Paying the Piper: the Coal-Man and the Hosier
John Florance
Producer: Paul Evans
27:45, 26027, S
08-Jan-2009
The Omnipresent Mr Handel
Peter Stead
 Produced by Rebecca Warner
27:48, 26068, S
26-May-2009
Mr Haydn’s London Experience
Matthew King
produced by Paul Evans

27:45, 26018, S
30-May-2009
Hunting Haydn’s Head

Simon Townley
Vietsga Winnier Hussy and Tom Alban

28:23, 26615, S
16-Jun-2009
Oh My What A Rotten Song!
1920s songwriting duo RP Weston and Bert Lee
Michael Rosen
produced by Emma Williams

28:05, 26342, S
23-Jun-2009
Menotti
the life story of composer Gian Carlo Menotti
Michael White
produced by Laura Parfit

28:00, 26266, S
30-Jun-2009
Settling the Score
the complex relationship between composer

and commissioner
Tim Blackmore
produced by Laura Parfit

28:00, 26262, S
04-Aug-2009
Gesualdo: Musician and Murderer
Aled Jones
produced by Geoff Ballinger

27:52, 26131, S
25-Aug-2009
Train Tracks
ways in which trains and railways have inspired
composers and songwriters
Simon Townley
produced by Tom Alban

27:57, 26206, S
06-Oct-2009
Over The Rainbow With Yip Harburg
Stephen Evans
produced by  Martin Kurzig

27:56, 26196, S
03-Dec-2009
The House That Jazz Built  -
50 years of Ronnie Scott’s jazz club
Paul Merton
produced by Stephen Garner

27:45, 26023, S
27-Oct-2009
Baroque and Roll: Townshend on Purcell
Pete Townshend
Producer James Hale
27:50, 26095, S
29-Dec-2009
Bach Fever!
Simon Hollis 28:07, 26363, S
16-Feb-2010
Piano Stool Beethovens
Ian McMillan
produced by Michael Surcombe

27:49, 26081, S
17-Apr-2010
Rocking the Blitz Club
Midge Ure
produced by Melissa FitzGerald

28:06, 26355, S
03-Jun-2010
Mayhem at the Ritz
Andrew Collins
Producer: John Sugar

27:47, 26051, S
10-Jun-2010
A Legend Before Slumdog
Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire composer
AR Rahman
Navid Akhtar
Producer: Mukti Jain Campion

27:45, 26025, S
29-Jun-2010
A Strange, Enchanted Boy – eden ahbez
Clark Peters
Producer: Neil Rosser

27:35, 25865, S
13-Jul-2010
Jazz in the Open Air
Kevin LeGendre
Producer John Goudie

27:55, 26173, S
20-Jul-2010
Composing New York
Tarik O’Regan
Producer: Simon Hollis

28:07, 26373, S
26-Oct-2010
Rosa and Leos – Rosa Newmarch and Leos Janacek
Peter Avis
Producer: Emma Kingsley

27:33, 25831, S
02-Jan-2011
The Music of the Wires
Presenter: Chris Watson
Producer: Sarah Blunt
27:50, 26099, S
12-Apr-2011
Into the Music Library
Jonny Trunk
Producer: Simon Hollis

28:06, 26345, S
21-Apr-2011
The Ladies’ Man of Opera
how Richard Strauss’ marriage inspired his music
Michael Pennington
Producer: Jo Meek

28:00, 26251, S
08-Feb-2011
The Choir Invisible
why Victorian women wrote so many famous hymns
Ian Hislop
produced by Philip Sellers

27:50, 26096, S
R7:
08-Jan-2011

Bicycle Music
the musical landscape inspired by bicycling
Graeme Fife
produced by Richard Bannerman

27:16, 25574, S
07-Jun-2011
Liszt and His Women
Lucy Parham
Produced by Alan Hall

27:46, 26043, S
26-Jul-2011
Composer Joseph Horovitz: No Ordinary Joe
Debbie Wiseman
Produced by Luke Wittlock

27:52, 26082, S
11-Aug-2011
The Art of Water Music
Presenter: Midge Ure
Producer: Tom Rice

27:34, 25797, S
22-Sep-2011
29-Sep-2011
06-Oct-2011




10-Feb-2013
17-Feb-2013
24-Feb-2013

Lyrical Journey
  1. Up the Junction
  2. Day Trip to Bangor
  3. Raintown

  4. Sunshine on Leith
  5. Patience of Angels
  6. A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
Jonathan Maitland
produced by Faith Lawrence
Produced by Stephen Garner
27:27, 25691, S
27:51, 26061, S
27:33, 25784, S




27:49, 26032, S
27:38, 25864, S
27:50, 26054, S

20-Dec-2011
Warsaw Variations
Andrzej Panufnik and Witold Lutoslawski
Produced by Alan Hall
27:31, 25751, S
26-May-2012 The Barlow-Morgenstern Method
Tony Hawks
Producer: Isobel Williams
27:46, 25992, S
21-Aug-2012 Composing LA
Tarik O' Regan
Produced by Simon Hollis
27:55, 26126, S
08-Jan-2013 Scoring Father Brown
Debbie Wiseman
produced by Luke Wedlock
27:36, 25837, S
13-Jul-2013
The Unsent Letters of Erik Satie
Alistair McGowan
Produced by Emma Harding
27:50, 26054, S
24-Sep-2013
The Secret Life of JS Bach
Richard Coles
produced by Michael Circum
27:48, 26023, S
15-Nov-2013
In Britten's Footsteps
Chris Watson
Producer Sarah Blunt
27:33, 25790, S

Recording
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
23-Sep-2005
A Life in Cans
Neil Innes
Producer: Ivan Howlett
27:53, 26153, S
08-Oct-2005
The Other Mobiles
Andy Turvey, Paul Burnett, Adrian Juste
Producer: Chris Eldon Lee
27:11, 25490, S
05-Feb-2008
The Sound Makers
Paul Gambaccini
Produced by Marya Burgess

28:11, 26428, S
170July-2008
The Disappearing Art of the Mix Tape
David Quantick, lain Banks, Simon Armitage
Producers Ian Bent and Rachel Ross
27:55, 26182, S
12-Aug-2008
Killer Bs – the B-sides of records
Anthony Barnes
produced by Simon Hollis

28:15, 26498, S
13-Dec-2008
The EMI Story
Damian Reece
Producers Liz Carney and Adrian Edwards
28:03, 26311, S
03-Mar-2009
Sleeve Notes
Laura Baron
produced by Ekele Ekelawu

28:23, 26613, S
02-Jun-2009
09-Jun-2009
Performing to the Red Light
Terence Curran
Producer: Emma Kingsley
27:39, 25929, S
27:52, 26132, S
21-Nov-2009
Payola, The Pluggers and the Father of Rock and Roll
Nick Barraclough
produced by Susan Cudden

27:55, 26173, S
06-Feb-2010
Stefan Gates’ Cover Story
the cover of Led Zeppelin’s classic album Houses of
the Holy
Stefan Gates
produced by Russell Finch

28:17, 26529, S
29-Apr-2010
The Art of Re-mastering
Sara Mohr-Pietsch
produced by Nick Holmes

28:00, 26258, S
27-May-2010
The Wonderful Weightless World of the Flexidisc
Paul Bayley
producer Bob Dickinson
28:15, 26486, S
07-Jun-2010
EMI – Facing the Music
Damian Reece
Producer: Liz Carney

27:54, 26162, S
30-Nov-2010
Stevie’s Wonder Men
Stuart Maconie
28:04, 26314, S
05-May-2011
78 Revolutions
Jenny Hammerton
produced by Tim Dee

27:36, 25890, S
04-Oct-2011
The World in His Ear – David Fanshawe
Philip Sweeney
Producer: Gemma Newby

27:46, 25988. S
27-Dec-2011
Beatles Christmas
Alexei Sayle
Producer: John Sugar
27:50, 26114, S
26-Jan-2012
Vic Oliver: The First Castaway Remembered
David Baddiel
written by Phil Collinge
produced by Stephen Garner
27:36, 25896, S
01-Mar-2012
The 12 Inch Single
Paul Morley
produced by Nick Holmes
27:53, 26090, S
12-Jun-2012 Cerys Matthews' Blue Horizon
Cerys Matthews
Producer: Nick Barraclough
27:41, 25902, S
24-Jul-2012
31-Jul-2012
07-Aug-2012
Making Tracks
  1. Basing Street Studios
  2. Monmouthshire farm, Rockfield Studios
  3. London's Abbey Road
  4. Metropolis, West London
Paul Morley
Producer: Paul Kobrak
27:40, 25948, S
27:47, 26003, S
27:48, 26017, S
27:38, 25865, S
23-Oct-2012
30-Oct-2012
06-Nov-2012
Swansong
  1. Synchronicity by the Police, 1983
  2. The Holy Bible, by Manic Street Preachers, 1994
  3. Big Country's Driving to Damascus, 1999
  4. The Smiths' Strangeways, Here We Come
Stuart Maconie
produced by James Hale, Darren Broome
27:52, 26082, S
27:56, 26145, S
27:33, 25783, S
27:40, 25892, S
11-Dec-2012 An Alternative Christmas
Richard Coles
Producer: Jo Meek
27:59, 26183, S
22-Dec-2012 ...But Still They Come
Robin Ince
Produced by Des Shaw, Chris O'Shaughnessy
27:26, 25672, S
20-May-2013
Creating Pitch-Perfect
Catherine Bott
produced by Nick Holmes
27:53, 26119, S
2002
BBC R4X
28-May-2014
The Music Factory -- Music While You Work
Russell Davies
produced by Clare Chonker and Simon Elmes
27:45, 25908, S