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Folk music and musical folk

Blow the dust off your squeezebox and strap on your gaiters as we go searching across the British Isles for the music of ordinary (and extraordinary) folk.

Blow the dust off your squeezebox and strap on your gaiters as we go searching across the British Isles for the music of ordinary (and extraordinary) folk. Join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and her band of merry music historians in their discovery of the stories behind British folk music past and present.

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Presenter Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Narrator Peter Mills
Narrator Davina Shum
Narrator Kate Romano
Narrator Leah Broad

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