Back in 1994 British folk musician and scholar Martin Carthy hosted a series of 6 radio broadcasts on the BBC 2 station. I recently got my hands on cassette tapes of these broadcasts, and they’re awesome! He did a really good job- plays some amazing music. I digitized the tapes, and here they are. The first tape is programs 1-3, Jan-Feb 1994 and the second is programs 3-6, Feb-March. You will notice in the middle of each tape it cuts off and then cuts back in, that’s where the tape side switches. I really recommend these shows, fun to listen to.
Enjoy!
Great find and thanks for uploading these relatively unknown programmes. CJB (London)
any chance of being able to download these as zip files…? I’d just love to hear them but the only place I could is at work…if they would play in MS RealPlayer there, but they don’t >:(
You should be able to download the shows as MP3s by clicking where it says “audio Mp3” below the play button. Unfortunately I do not have the ability to post the files in Realplayer format.
Thanks for listening
Eli
This is wonderful stuff – thanks so much!
Micky,
If you want, and if it’s ok with Eli, I can reupload these files in a zip to my webserver and give you the link.
Cheers,
Mike
Ok, sure. Send me the link.
Very interesting to hear MC’s picks from so many different types of folk music. Thanks Eli!
Many thanks for posting these Martin Carthy shows. It would be nice to have these in a lossless format like FLAC, in order to preserve the original recording quality.