| Description | Track 1: Recording setup 0.12 mins
Track 2: Programme credits and introduction to the love song tradition 1.04 mins
Track 3: 'Western Wind' song originally believed to have been composed during the Hundred Years War around the time of the Battle of Crecy in the fourteenth century. Clayre mentions the 'night visiting' tradition where young lovers could spend time together 0.55 mins
Track 4: 'Although the night be dark as any dungeon..' 2.55 mins
Track 5: Discussion of poems and songs dealing with family love 0.22 mins
Track 6: Lullaby written by Robert Nunn, a blind fiddler from Tyneside, known as the Sandgate Dandling Song 1.53 mins
Track 7: Discussion of traditional songs about death and mourning. Story that the dead cannot rest while their lovers still mourned for them 0.25 mins
Track 8: 'The Unquiet Grave' 3.44 mins
Track 9: Discussion of songs of happy love 0.14 mins
Track 10: Song kown as 'Collier Laddie' 3.35 mins
Track 11: Discussion of how modern writers can learn from this tradition, write songs that can be passed into the oral tradition as the best destination for his work 0.35 mins
Track 12: Poem beginning 'It was the time of dusk when lorry drivers running from Durham north to sea fogged nights...' 0.55 mins
Track 13: Discussion of seeing more clearly when in love, introducing short song about two people walking in winter, when in love 0.13 mins
Track 14: Song beginning 'Two lovers were out walking' 1.28 mins
Track 15: Discussion of whether writers can contribute to traditional forms, perhaps by responding to the new emotions created by city life and love, introducing song suggested by some West Indian workmen in a factory 0.41 mins
Track 16: Fitzroy Coleman sings song beginning 'When evening comes..' 1.57 mins
Track 17: In contrast, introducing a song for a young soldier on the Flanders coast, divided from his wife by the war 0.11 mins
Track 18: Ewan MacColl sings song beginning 'When I walked out last summertime..' 2.01 mins
Track 19: European myth about melancholy induced by a woman 0.11 mins
Track 20: Song beginning 'There's a fisherboy in the north who'd had no words with women...' 1.29 mins
Track 21: Discussion of myths that become nursery rhymes, gypsy belief that the sun and moon were once man and wife, but this turned into a Spanish nonsense rhyme about the quarrels between husbands and wives, introducing a song that derives from this tradition 0.23 mins
Track 22: Song beginning 'the sun and the moon are out of tune, and they're not staying together...' 1.09 mins
Track 23: Discussion of sudden death, through war and the threat of the hydrogen bomb, traditional songs linking us to chain of being which makes death less terrible because it's part of the pattern of life 0.39 mins
Track 24: song beginning 'there's an old wind blows you cannot see...' 1.50 mins
Track 25: Programme end credits 0.58 mins
This programme is followed by a recital of English Songs given by Colin Wheatley of Chesterfield, the winner of the BBC Singers Competition held in York on 18 March 1965, broadcast on BBC Midland Home Service at 9pm 23 March 1965. Wheatley as accompanied by Clifton Helliwell
Track 26: Programme credits and introduction to the first song, 0.27 mins
Track 27: Song 'An Evening Hymn' 5.07 mins
Track 28: Introduction to eighteenth century song by William Boyce 0.12 mins
Track 29: Song 'Rail no more ye learned asses', recording interuppted 1.07 mins
Track 30: Song 'Now Phoebus sinketh in the west' 4.28 mins
Track 31: Song 'In summertime on Bredon' 3.56 mins
Track 32: Song 'Yarmouth Fair' 2.01 mins
Track 33: song 'Who is Silvia' 1.53 mins
Track 34: Song 'Fear no more the heat of the sun' 6.00 mins
Track 35: Song 'Oh mistress mine' 2.15 mins
Track 36: Recital credits 0.16 mins
Track 37: Instrumental 1.19 mins
Track 38: Silence 0.28
This is followed by part of a recording of 'Conference', a programme broadcast on BBC Midland Home Service at 9.30pm 23 March 1965. The programme was introduced by Tim Matthews and discussed the findings and recommendations of the Milner Holland report, which focused on the housing situation in Greater London, particularly rented accommodation and the relationship between tenants and landlords (Tracks 39-42)
Track 43: silence 4.27 mins
Total: 1.09.55
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF573E0645280 |