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Is there another country that is so alienated from its own music?
NICK MATTHEWS looks back on the continuing legacy of Alan Bush, the Workers Music Association’s Topic Records and BBC Radio 3
LEGENDS: Maddy Prior, Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2016
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If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
THE Tories persist with their attacks on the BBC, despite the fundamentally conservative nature of the institution, and its role as a key part of the state’s ideological apparatus.
This last is what makes the Beeb problematic for the left. However, the sheer range and depth of its coverage means that some amazing stuff does get past the self-censors.
As a great fan of Radio 3, I was recently delighted to hear the late great Norma Waterson and Alan Bush on the same day.
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