06/05/2024
Out on 8th May!!
S1/E1: Roud 1 - The Raggle Taggle Gypsies
Historical guest: Steve Roud
Singer guest: Jon Boden
Steve Roud is the founder of the Roud Folk Song Index and the author of a number of major works on English folkways and customs including The English Year, The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (with Julia Bishop) and Folk Song In England.
Jon Boden is best known as lead singer and main arranger of the award winning folk big-band Bellowhead, who are touring nationally in November '24 to venues such as the London Palladium and Birmingham Symphony Hall. He has performed extensively in the field of traditional English folk song and music for over twenty years working as one half of Spiers & Boden, with his own band The Remnant Kings, solo and most recently in a new duo with Eliza Carthy. He is primarily a vocalist and fiddler but also plays guitar and duet concertina. Archers fans may also be familiar with his arrangement of the theme tune "Barwick Green" which is used for the Sunday omnibus edition on Radio 4.
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