Description
Devised by Ewan MacColl, radio producer Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger, the Radio-Ballads set out to crystallise in words and music the experience of different ways of life - the words being supplied not by actors but by the real occupants of those lives and jobs, whether miners, fishermen, boxers or teenagers. The eight programmes were first broadcast by the BBC between 1958 and 1964.Immediately after The Ballad of John Axon was first broadcast, letters started arriving at the BBC requesting that the programme be repeated. The programme was described by Adrian Clancy in the Daily Mail as "ruthlessly realistic... it is the strongest radio profile of a hero I have ever heard". Tom Driberg, in an uncharacteristic congratulatory piece in the New Statesman, concluded, "A generation from now, listeners will surely still be moved by the recording of The Ballad of John Axon".
- Internal ID: JITRE
- Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
- Format: CD
- Format Detail: CD Jewel Case
- Genre: Folk
- Released: 5/26/08