The Radio Ballads: The Ballad Of John Axon - Ewan MacColl
The first of the Radio Ballads, The Ballad of John Axon concerns a steam-locomotive driver from Stockport, posthumously awarded the George Cross for an act of heroism in 1957 when he …
Radio ballad - Wikipedia
The radio ballad is an audio documentary format created by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Charles Parker in 1958. It combines four elements of sound: songs, instrumental music, sound …
The Radio Ballads 1957-1964 - Mainly Norfolk
Feb 2, 2024 · Isla Cameron, Fitzroy Coleman, Colin Dunn, Stan Kelly, Dick Loveless, A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Charles Mayo Gladys Axon, Alfred Ball, Jim Howarth, Kenneth Pearson ...
BBC The Radio Ballads - Archive.org
Jan 16, 2020 · Sean Street recalls the Radio Ballads, a series which heralded a completely new form of radio programme in the late 1950s. Mixing original voices and sounds with specially …
How the Radio Ballads were made - Peggy Seeger
In 1957, John Axon, a steam-locomotive driver, was making the down-run from Buxton in the Derbyshire Peak District to his home depot at Edgley, Stockport, when the automatic steam …
The Radio Ballads - Topic Records
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 …
The Radio Ballads - Peggy Seeger
For an in-depth look at the production of the radio ballads read Ewan Mac Coll's story of "The Radio Ballads: How they were made, when and by whom". A true Casey Jones story about a …
BBC - Radio 2 - BBC Radio Ballads - The Ballad of John Axon
The first of the Radio Ballads, The Ballad of John Axon concerns a steam-locomotive driver from Stockport, posthumously awarded the George Cross for an act of heroism in 1957 when he …
The Ballad of John Axon – Topic Records
Dec 8, 2016 · The first of the radio-ballads was inspired by a steam locomotive driver who died performing an act of heroism. It was based, like its successors, on many hours of tape …
Axon Ballads | Chetham's Library
These pages present images of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society’s Axon Ballad collection, named after their collector, G.R. Axon. The Society has placed the collection on …