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**FolkCast**

The acclaimed folk music podcast from the United Kingdom, bringing you the best in folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots-based music. FolkCast – OUR finger in YOUR ear! See our website: www.folkcast.co.uk

Latest Episodes:

081-December2012 — **FolkCast 081 - December 2012** Dec 23, 2012
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Dark music for the darkest time of the year, with lots of death, tragedy and injustice in December 2012's FolkCast. So, if you're feeling desperate, down or dispirited because of the weather, your wasted wallet or your walloped waistline, this is just the place for you! These are the blues, baby - folk style!

Music featured:

**The Milk White Dove** by Kate Denny

**Stones & Matches** by Iain Morrison

**Cycles** by Mike Vass

**The Well** by Red Shoes

**Broken Crash Barrier** by Chris While and Julie Matthews

**Come Back** by Annie Dressner

**A Highland Lamentation** by Calum Stewart & Lauren MacColl

**The Waltham Blacks** by Mike Grogan

**Open Doors** by The Portraits

**Bartonsham Meadows** by Sproatly Smith

**Cygnus The Swan** by Eamon Friel

*Babba presents The Story Behind The Song*: **Innocents Song** by Show Of Hands

**The January Man** by Damh The Bard

For full details and links see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk where you'll also find a huge archive of our previous shows, plus links to our Twitter, our Facebook and our Blog. Keep our finger in your ear!

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FolkCast Festive Selection Box VII - 2012 — **FolkCast Selection Box VII for 2012** Dec 16, 2012
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Come to the FolkCast Village Hall for a special show full of music, poetry and comedy to celebrate winter, Yuletide, Christmas and beyond! Presented and produced by Phil Widdows.

Our programme:

**Fire And Wine** by Green Diesel

**The Last Month Of The Year** by Tarbox Ramblers

**Winter Song** by Emily Smith

**Reothadh (Frost)** Joy Dunlop and Twelfth Day with *Winter* by William Shakespeare (Read by Ruth Golding for librivox.com)

**Iced In** by Life And Times

**By The Fire** by Josienne Clarke

**Bransles** by Kerfuffle with *For The Children Or The Grown-ups?* by Anon. (Read by Phil Widdows) *

It's That Time Of Year Again by Bob Kirkpatrick

**Silent Night** by Priscilla Ahn

**Mistletoe And Holly** by Beegie Adair

**Wonderful Christmastime** by Jars Of Clay

**Merry Christmas Everyone** by Bella Hardy

**Stop The Cavalry** by Barricades Rise

**Cycles** by Mike Vass with *Colloquy Of The Oak And Holly King* written and recited by Damh The Bard and Cerri Lee *

**Snow Falls** by The Albion Band

**Tune For A Blythesome Turkey** by Ken Nicol with *The Turkey* by Dave Carr (Read by Phil Widdows) *

**Essex Wassail** by Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer

**Jingle Bells** by Anup with *Is There A Father Christmas?* by The Human Nutrino (Read by Babba)* with a rebutting excerpt from *Miracle on 34th Street*

**Dad, Is There Really A Santa Claus?** by The Albion Band

**We Three Gypsy Kings** by The Christmas Album Band with *The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus* by Ogden Nash (Read by Phil Widdows) *

**Little Christmas (Chasing Fairy Lights)** by Jo Bywater *

**Love Came Down** by Gareth Davies-Jones

**Winter Song** by Lindisfarne

(* = a FolkCast exclusive)
**For further details and links, click here to see the ShowNotes**

GBBF Interviews 005 — **FolkCast Blast - GBFF Interviews 005 - Phil Beer of Show Of Hands** Dec 09, 2012
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Go backstage after the Show Of Hands' gig at the Great British Folk Festival, Butlin's Skegness, 2012 where we find Mr Phil Beer - multi-instrumentalist and singer - looking forward to a crafty cocktail and with plans for a life on the ocean wave. Featuring music from Show Of Hands.

For further info see the ShowNotes at the FolkCast website

GBBF Interviews 004 — **FolkCast Blast - GBFF Interviews 004 - Fake Thackray, Peter Knight** Dec 08, 2012
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Recorded at the Great British Folk Festival, Butlin's Skegness, December 2012. Phil Widdows interviews John Watterson (aka Fake Thackray) and Peter Knight from Gigspanner, Feast Of Fiddles and Steeleye Span.

For further info see the FolkCast website

GBBF Interviews 003 — **FolkCast Blast - GBFF Interviews 003 - Roy Mette, Triangle, Sue Marchant** Dec 08, 2012
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Interviews recorded at the Great British Folk Festival 2012 at Butlin's, Skegness, with Roy Mette and Triangle, and event compere Sue Marchant. Plus music from Roy Mette and Jake Thackray.

For further details see FolkCast

**FolkCast Blast - GBFF Interviews 002 - Patsy Matheson, Gordon Giltrap** Dec 06, 2012
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The second interview podcast recorded at the Great British Folk Festival, Butlin's, Skegness, December 2012. We chat to Patsy Matheson and Gordon Giltrap.

**FolkCast Blast - GBFF Interviews 001 - Ashley Hutchings, Simon Care & Blair Dunlop** Dec 05, 2012
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The first in a special series of podcasts featuring interviews recorded at the Great British Folk Festival 2012. We chat backstage to Ashley Hutchings and Simon Care of The Morris On Band, and Ashley's son Blair Dunlop on his solo career and work with the new Albion Band.

For further info see the FolkCast website

FolkCast 080 - November 2012 Nov 10, 2012

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FolkCast 080 episode logo

November is the month of memories, and in an opening section we pay tribute to the dead of all wars, with six songs from various viewpoints of war through history.

Later in the show our folk historian, Babba, lights the fuse on the story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot – an infamous event remembered annually with fireworks and bonfires. And there's a specially-written song to commemmorate "the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions".

We also remind you that the end of November is time for the Great British Folk Festival, so we preview the event with music from some of the artists appearing this year.
Never A Soldier by Duncan McCrone
Born To Be A Soldier by Gary Cordice
Tommy by Peter Bellamy
King And Country by Seth Lakeman and The BBC Concert Orchestra
Coming Home by Show Of Hands
Fourteen Hundred Hours by Talis Kimberley
Huzzah! by Jamie Smith's Mabon
Roll Out The Black by Feral Mouth
Pretty Nancy Of Yarmouth by Feast Of Fiddles
The Lover's Ghost by Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party
Shining Morn by Gordon Giltrap
This Time by Merry Hell
The Story Behind The Song: An Honest Man by Carys & Rosemary (Babba tells the story of The Gunpowder Plot)
Loch Tay Boat Song by Amber Road

See the ShowNotes at http://www.folkcast.co.uk for full details and links.

FolkCast 079 - October 2012 Oct 30, 2012

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