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24/02/2010

Mike Harding looks ahead to the Radio 2 documentary Ballad of The Miners' Strike, with an hour of folk, roots and acoustic music on the theme of coal and mining life.

This week, Mike Harding looks ahead to Radio 2's forthcoming documentary The Ballad Of The Miners' Strike with an hour of folk, roots and acoustic music on the theme of coal and the mining life.

Mike also plays an excerpt from The Ballad Of The Miners' Strike, which revisits the bitter dispute in words and specially-commissioned song and will be broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2 on Tuesday 2 March 2010.

1 hour

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Wed 24 Feb 2010 19:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Billy Mitchell

    The Devil's Ground

    • The Devil's Ground.
    • MWM MWMCDSP70.

  • Maddy Prior

    The Collier Lad

    • Seven For Old England.
    • Park Records PRKCD100.

  • Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson - Sweetheart on the Barricade

  • The Unthanks

    The Testimony of Patience Kershaw

    • Here's the Tender Coming (Promo copy).
    • EMI 687 1222.

  • Merle Travis

    Dark as a Dungeon

    • Red Colour Sun.
    • Lonesome CD071.

  • Dick Gaughan

    Schooldays End

    • Songs of Ewan MacColl.
    • Black Crow CROCD215.

  • Bob Fox & Stu Luckley

    The Row Between the Cages

    • Thirty Years On.
    • Artist's Own Label BFMCD010.

  • Kathy Mattea

    Coal Tattoo

    • Coal.
    • Captain Potato 7653260-2.

  • Jez Lowe

    These Coal Town Days

    • Bede Weeps.
    • FECD94.

  • Julie Matthews

    Beyond the Picket Line

    • Private Recording.

  • Coope Boyes & Simpson

    Six Jolly Miners

    • Hindsight.
    • No Masters NMCD11.

  • John Tams

    Harry Stone (Hearts of Coal)

    • Unity.
    • Topic TSCD508.

  • Kate Rusby

    My Young Man

    • Little Lights.
    • Pure Records PRCD07.

  • The Houghton Weavers

    Coal Hole Cavalry

    • Come Landlord . . .: Collection Vol 3.
    • Grasmere Music GRCD 112.

Broadcast

  • Wed 24 Feb 2010 19:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2