Real life stories of our listeners in the North East of England, using original folk music to create a lasting legacy of their experiences. Show more Real life stories of our listeners in the ...

not least for founding the first folk club in England. MacColl wasa poet, a playwright,a performer and, of course, a songwriter, whose songs include "Dirty Old Town" and "The First Time Ever I Saw ...

The release of 2014 album Nothing Important saw him come to national attention as a kind of folk singer ... Peasant was about England, but exclusively in the sixth century. With splenetic acoustic ...

BBC Radio 2 is looking for five people to be the subjects of brand new songs written by some of the UK's finest songwriters. The songs will create a musical time capsule of life in the North East ...