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1971: FOLK as ROUGH as IRON Filings | Omnibus | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive
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8:52Now Playing"A secret stream, a hidden seam… a home-made culture that’s hardly known outside of the communities that produce it."
Famed folk singer A L Lloyd authors this edition of Omnibus, investigating traditional English folk music. His interest here is not Greensleeves, but the music born of working class and industrial lives – of factory workers, blacksmiths, miners and slum clearances. Songs to see you through long days of tough, physical work
Not all of the musicians name-checked in the end credits feature in this excerpt, but you can hear:
Clip taken from Omnibus: Rap Her Te Bank, originally broadcast on BBC One, Sunday 24 October 1971.
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