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Hi Jasmine, I just looked at BBC3 from our home here in France and there was Bev, who I used to work with years back at the London Borough Grants Unit in Twickenham. Pleased to see her so happy and great for her that she has you in her life. Give her my love, tell her Tony still remembers her ...

Great Vid, Paula knows the music isn't for me but the production is great, best of luck for the gigs, xx

I still have this programme, broadcast by the BBC in the UK,. on an old VHS, part of a Saturday night world music series they once ran.

Great music.

Roy Bailey and Leon Rosselson, Frankie Armstrong, so many good musicians and singers as their collaborators and their comments never loose their edge - and maybe they'll be listened to again when the current government start to cut things.

This is a re-issue of a much older LP. I had the original because it had a lot of spoken tracks on it - poems by Pearce, his oration at the grave of O'Donovan Rossa and other good stuff but this version left those tracks off, probably felt to be too risky during the Troubles during Thatchers tim...

These guys really got me into Irish and Centic music back in the early 1960s, still have their song book in a box somewhere.

Still good after 40 years plus!

Utah Phillips featured in an old BBC documentary (which I still watch on a grainy old VHS tape) about Lens'a Cafe of blessed memory, with so many other great singers and social commentators, no longer with us. Great man and great commentator, perhaps his successor is Seasick Steve tho a slightly...

Superb, much better than the stilted studion original. Mary Travers (no longer with us unfortunately) is so expressive in this clip, just brilliant music.

The Last Waltz was in November 1976 - so long ago but the music lives on, one of the greatest bands ever.

Last week was the anniversary of the sinking and rescue, yesterday was my Dad's birthday, shock to realise he's been dead 30 years next Tuesday, that's half the time he was alive and I've actually outlived him.

This is likely to be my last visit here, I've saved the films to a hard drive and I'l...