We are a UK based ‘virtual folk club’ producing podcasts in two formats: - Conversation and live music with selected guest musicians. The music is mainly acoustic in the folk or singer/songwriter genre. Occasionally we go 'off-piste' with guests who are poets, politicians, writers, storytellers etc where there may be no music at all. - Radio shows, mainly music with some commentary. Each episode is a re-run the most recent Invisible Folk Club radio show syndicated weekly to seven community s ...
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Invisible Folk and the Arts Council
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Since Spring 2019 Invisible Folk are proud to have been the recipients of four Arts Council Grants. In this podcast Jon Bickley talks about our relationship with the Arts Council and how that has enabled us to commission new compositions, new performances and to inject some money into the folk music community. You'll also hear some great music; wit…
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Sabine Baring-Gould @ the Invisible Folk Club
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Singer/Songwriters Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes joined narrator John Palmer (director of the critically-acclaimed Vaughan Williams anniversary 'From Pub to Pulpit' Cathedral tour) to talk us through a new show entitled 'Ghosts, werewolves and countryfolk - the songs and stories of Sabine Baring-Gould' Polymath and Victorian superstar Sabine Baring…
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Brewer's Daughter revisits the Invisible Folk Club
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Rhiannon Crutchley is an independent, alternative, acoustic musician who performs under the name Brewer's Daughter. For the last 10 years she has lived on a narrowboat travelling the inland waterways of the English east Midlands. She has worked the festival scene in the UK and Europe both solo and as fiddle player with Tarantism. Released on 5th Ap…
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James Walvin - a new book about Amazing Grace
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This is the final podcast of our Grace will lead me home project, a partnership with the Cooper & Newton Museum (Olney) to mark the 250th anniversary of the writing of Amazing Grace. Our guest speaker is James Walvin, OBE Emeritus Professor of History at York University, his latest book is the cultural history of Amazing Grace. It is fascinating an…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No328 (New Year & Wassail)
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It's catch-up time. The Invisible Folk Club radio show is currently syndicated to eight community or local stations, six based in the UK with the other two mainland Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No327 (Christmas)
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It's catch-up time. The Invisible Folk Club radio show is currently syndicated to eight community or local stations, six based in the UK with the other two mainland Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No326 (Winter)
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It's catch-up time. The Invisible Folk Club radio show is currently syndicated to eight community or local stations, six based in the UK with the other two mainland Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features…
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Louis de Bernières @ the Invisible Folk Club
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Everybody knows Louis de Bernières is a world famous novelist and poet, but we were intrigued to discover he had a lesser known talent as a singer and songwriter. His second solo album 'Delicate Lies' was due for release in October 2023 so we invited him to the Invisible Folk Club for a musical discussion. An interesting conversation ensued. Many t…
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Anna Howie & My Girl The River @ the Invisible Folk Club part 1
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We were delighted when My Girl the River (Kris Wilkinson-Hughes & Joe Hughes) and Anna Howie agreed to make a joint return to the Invisible Folk Club. Both Kris and Anna are talented songwriters, the music and conversation ebbed and flowed for 2½ hours. It was a fabulous session.Par Jon Bickley
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Anna Howie & My Girl The River @ the Invisible Folk Club part 2
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We were delighted when My Girl the River (Kris Wilkinson-Hughes & Joe Hughes) and Anna Howie agreed to make a joint return to the Invisible Folk Club. Both Kris and Anna are talented songwriters, the music and conversation ebbed and flowed for 2½ hours. It was a fabulous session.Par Jon Bickley
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Invisible Folk Club radio No311
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to nine community or local stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, qual…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No310
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to nine community or local stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, qual…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No309
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to nine community or local stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, qual…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No308
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to nine community or local stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, qual…
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Chesham Literary Festival - 20 sonnets with Jon Bickley & Ben Batten part 1
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The Invisible Folk Club is creating podcasts to make aspects of the Chesham Literary Festival (CLF) available to an online audience. In this latest podcast we hear new work by two of the Festival's founders, poets Jon Bickley and Ben Batten. In a 5 week period during June & July 2023 they wrote 76 sonnets, quite an achievement. They read some of th…
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Chesham Literary Festival - 20 sonnets with Jon Bickley & Ben Batten part 2
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The Invisible Folk Club is creating podcasts to make aspects of the Chesham Literary Festival (CLF) available to an online audience. In this latest podcast we hear new work by two of the Festival's founders, poets Jon Bickley and Ben Batten. In a 5 week period during June & July 2023 they wrote 76 sonnets, quite an achievement. They read some of th…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No307
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to nine community or local stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, qual…
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Chesham Literary Festival – Emily Townsend
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Emily Townsend had two of her poems commended in the Chesham Literary Festival Poetry Competition 2023 and she read them in our last CLF podcast. In this episode she reads three of her short stories. You can expect to see more of Emily at futures CLF events. invisiblefolk.com jonbickley.com Jon Bickley on Facebook Follow the festival's Facebook pag…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No306
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to nine community or local stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, qual…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No305
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to nine community or local stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, qual…
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Chesham Literary Festival – Poetry Competition 2023
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Jon Bickley hosts the first in a series of podcasts from the Chesham Literary Festival. In this edition Ben Batten – poet and cometition judge talks about the festival and reads some of his own poems. We then have poets reading their commended poems in the three categories – Under 11s, Chesham residents and the rest of the world. The podcast ends w…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No304
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to nine community or local stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, qual…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No303
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to nine community or local stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, qual…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No302
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to nine community or local stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, qual…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No301
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to nine community or local stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, qual…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No300
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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For the Many Not the Few
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For The Many Not The Few is a collaborative writing project founded by Colin Meek to which anyone can contribute. There are lyrics, stories, blogs, thoughts, poems, odes, prose, observations. The FTMNTF ethos is to encourage people to write and get published. All proceeds from sales goes to charity. To join the forum on Facebook https://www.faceboo…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No299
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Invisible Folk Club radio No298
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Dan Raza at the Invisible Folk Club
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Dan Raza is a renowned singer/songwriter based in London. One of a handful of live dates in April 2023 was at Sharnbrook Mill Theatre in north Bedfordshire. Invisible Folk Producer Steve Yarwood met up with Dan for a chat before the show. At the end of the interview Dan kindly played a couple of songs for us accompanied by Fabio Mancini, a musician…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No297
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Invisible Folk Club radio No296
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Invisible Folk Club radio No295
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Invisible Folk Club radio No294
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Invisible Folk Club radio No293
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Invisible Folk Club radio No292
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Songwriters Circle - Session 1
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Invisible Folk Club are getting back to 'face to face' podcast sessions. It's just like the old days, sitting around chatting, drinking tea and playing songs. During the pandemic Jon Bickley convened an online Song Writing Circle with Alan Garmonsway, Stewart Murdoch & Dave Artus. The idea was to come up with a different songwriting topic each mont…
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Grace will lead me home - Sally-Anne Huxtable
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Sally-Anne has published extensively on the History of Art and at the time of interview was the Head Curator for the National Tuest. In this capacity she co-edited a report tracing where slave trade compensation money went and which of the estates, now managed by the trust, benefited. We also discussed the way in which the heritage industry tells t…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No291
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Erica Roffe at the Invisible Folk Club
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Erica Roffe is co-founder and Managing Editor of the Bedford Independent, a dynamic, informed and informative local news website. The demise of print media and buying-up of local titles by syndicates has resulted in a collapse of local news services in Bedford. Coupled with the decline of its distinctive High Street the town is in danger of losing …
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Grace will lead me home - Amanda Molcher
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Amanda Molcher is a trustee of the Cowper & Newton Museum (Olney, Bucks) and has led the museum's AG250 project. She has also been a key facilitator in Invisible Folk's Grace Will Lead Me Home project. Her knowledge of the museum's collection, history and contemporary relevance has inspired thousands of visitors through exhibitions and events. In t…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No290
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Grace Will Lead Me Home - Jon Bickley's project diary2
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In March 2023 Jon Bickley met up with Angeline Morrison and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne. They stayed togther in Dartmouth House in Olney, once owned by the Earl of Dartmouth, the man who gave John Newton his first clerical position, that of Curate in Charge at St.Peter and St.Paul's church (Olney). Together Angeline, Cohen and Jon researched Newton'…
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On April 7th 2000 Nelson Mandela came to Bedford to rededicate the bust of his friend and mentor Trevor Huddleston who was born in Bedford in 1913. The visit lasted less than an hour but it made a lasting impression on everyone who was there. Invisible Folk tracked down some of those people and asked them for their memories, we collected them toget…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No289
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Invisible Folk Club radio No288
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Invisible Folk Club radio No287
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Invisible Folk Club radio No286
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to seven community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new …
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Grace will lead me home - Pauline Stepney
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Jon Bickley talks to community leader Pauline Stepney for an ongoing podcast series marking the 250th anniversary of the writing of Amazing Grace. Its author John Newton was a slave trader and later an abolitionist. We all know that Amazing Grace is universally loved but how do we view the slave trade today? We asked three people of Caribbean desce…
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Invisible Folk Club radio No285
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It's catch-up time. This Invisible Folk Club radio show went out live to six community stations across England and Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars, quality new mu…
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