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Introduction This program showcases the English-speaking folk music I've experienced  in my lifetime.  When I was a young man in England, the '60s UK folk resurgence was in full swing.   My friends and I greatly enjoyed the 400 year old 'Blue Boar' pub, just outside Newbury on the Berkshire Downs.  Oliver Cromwell stayed there the night before the first Battle of Newbury in the...

Playlist Introduction    (01.38) Feist/Of Womankind ('Multitudes')   (05.12) Kevin Morby/Like A Flower ('Music From Montana Story')   (08.25) Jen Cloher/Harakeke ('I Am The River The River Is Me')   (12.39) Rickie Lee Jones/Just In Time ('Pieces Of Treasure')   (15.39) Ringo Starr/Rewind Forward (title track)   (20.03) Arlo Parks/Pegasus (ft. Phoebe Bridgers...

Playlist (01.04) Angelique Kidjo/Sedjedo   (03.55) Fela Kuti/Lady (radio edit)   (09.39) Ladysmith Black Mambazzo (ft Salif Keita)/United We Stand   (14.31) Ismaël Lô/Africa   (19.27) Miriam  Makeba/Malaika   (24.43) Malouma/Maghrour   (28.40) Thomas Mapfumo/Vanhu Vatema   (35.03) Chiwoniso Maraire/Everyone's Child   (38.41) Hugh Masekela/Grazin' In The Grass (instrumental)   (41.13) Oli...

Playlist (01.54) Teddy Afro/Ethiopia   (06.24) Tony Allen & Friends/African Man (instrumental)   (11.30) Amazones d'Afrique/Dombolo   (14.47) Les Ambassadeurs (ft Salif Keita)/Tounkan   (21.24) Aşa/Fire On The Mountain   (25.57) Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck/Mbassou Niang (live at Soir​é​e S​é​n​é​galaise, 2012)   (29.30) Becca/Daa Ke Daa   (32.33) The Bhundu Boys/Satan In Gaporadzwe   (3...

Playlist (09.06) We’re All In This Together  (from ‘Awake Is The New Sleep’, 2005)    (18.46) I Love Pop Music  (from ‘The Rebirth Of Venus’, 2009)   (24.06) Slow Down  (from ‘I’m Fun’, 2022)    (30.25) Like This Or Like That  (from ‘I’m Fun’, 2022)    (38.09) Whatever It Is  (from ‘Awake Is The New Sleep’, 2005) rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

  Playlist Following their two Wembley Stadium concerts, for their 2023 reunion, Blur performed a smaller, more intimate concert at the BBC Radio Theatre, July 18, 2023, recording a mix of older hits and new album tracks.   (00.00) Intro   (01.03) St Charles Square    (05.06) Popscene    (08.51) Beetlebum    (14.32) Villa Rosie    (19.24) Coffee And TV    (25.07) Out Of Time    (29.12) Russian Str...

This program is a collage of Australian & British music, poetry, letters & diary entries.   The film passages come from Stanley Kubrick's ' Paths Of Glory ' (1957) and Richard Attenborough's ' Oh! What A Lovely War ' (1969).  Sincere thanks to Anna Clark-Doyle, Garry Morley and Michael Ryan for their polished and professional assistance.      Production &...

The History of the 1960s European 'Pirate' Broadcasters (00.00.00) Introduction   (00.04.02) The Who/My Generation(1967)   (00.07.21) The Easybeats/Friday On My Mind(1966)   (00.09.54) Kathy Kirby/Dance On (1963)    (00.12.33) Procol Harum/A Whiter Shade Of Pale (1967)   (00.16.33) Pink Floyd/Arnold Layne (1967)   (00.19.22) Petula Clark/Downtown (1964)   (00.24.50) The Move/Flowers In T...

An extended conversation with former Radio City, Radio Caroline & 2SM presenter, Ian Macrae. rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

Playlist (00.00) Introduction (Bob Dylan's 'Ballad Of A Thin Man', Desolation Row, Like A Rolling Stone, Blowin' In The Wind, Positively 4th Street;  Charlotte Gainsbourg's  Just Like A Woman)   (03.35) Cat Power/Stuck Inside Of Mobile, With The Memphis Blues Again   (10.20) Tracy Chapman/The Times They Are A-Changin'   (13.15) Ximena Sariñana/I Want You   (16.48) Cow...