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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 . They are also available via Listen Again on the BBC Radio 2 website . 2006 RADIO BALLADS In 2006, BBC Radio 2 broadcast six new Radio Ballads using the same format, with musical direction by John Tams , and contributions from Karine Polwart , Jez Lowe and Cara Dillon among others. The following ballads were broadcast between February and April 2006: ''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 Fairground s (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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