Ewan MacColl
Singer Martin Carthy listens to long-lost recordings that reveal the rise and fall of Ewan MacColl’s “Critics’ Group”, a controversial driving force of the 1960s folk revival.
First broadcast January 2012 BBC Radio 4
Contributors: Peggy Seeger, Richard Snell, Frankie Armstrong, Sandra Kerr, Brian Pearson, Phil Colclough
Producers Genevieve Tudor and Chris Eldon Lee
How good it was to hear Carthy as narrator, someone who really knows the subject, the people, the factions, the history. – Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph
Read Gillian Reynold’s full review in The Daily Telegraph