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The radio-ballads were originally recorded for the '' (1958), about Railway men, ''Song of a Road'' ( 1959 ), about road-builders, ''Singing the Fishing'' ( 1960 ), about Herring Fishermen , ''The Big Hewer'' ( 1961 ), about Coal Miner s, ''The Body Blow'' ( 1962 ), about people suffering from Polio , ''On the Edge'' ( 1963 ), about teenagers in Britain , ''The Fight Game'' (1963), about Boxers , and ''The Travelling People'' ( 1964 ), about the Nomadic People s of Britain. All eight radio-ballads were released on LP , and later on CD . "NEW RADIO BALLADS" In , and contributions from Karine Polwart , Jez Lowe and Cara Dillon among others. Scheduled for broadcast are the following: ''The Song of Steel'' on the decline of the Sheffield and Rotherham Steel Industry (27 February); ''The Enemy That Lives Within'', on HIV / AIDS (6 March); ''The Horn of the Hunter'', on Foxhunting (13 March); ''Swings and Roundabouts'', on Travellers who run Fairgrounds (20 March) ''Thirty Years of Conflict''; on The Sectarian Conflict in Northern Ireland (27 March); and ''The Ballad of the Big Ships'', on the Shipyards of the Tyne and the Clyde , (3 April). |
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