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“Modest people, playing gorgeous music, speaking articulately about areas they love. Fabulously calming” – one listener’s description of this multi-award-winning podcast in which Matthew Bannister goes walking with top folk musicians in the landscapes that have inspired them. “A restorative breathing space in sound” – The Telegraph. “Immaculately produced” – The Times
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Friday Aug 02, 2019
Lisa Knapp in Tooting
Friday Aug 02, 2019
Friday Aug 02, 2019
The singer and fiddle player Lisa Knapp takes Matthew to the south London borough of Tooting where she was born and brought up. She performs songs with links to the area and tells how she stumbled across the Tooting Tragedy – a story of neglect and ill treatment at a local children’s home in Victorian times that led to hundreds of deaths and caused an outcry led by Charles Dickens. Lisa uncovered a haunting ballad about the story and sings it in the graveyard where many of the children are buried.
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Absolutely brilliant episode, a really moving final song 'The Tooting Tragedy'. Inspired podcast.
Sunday Sep 22, 2019
Great - I'd buy lavender from her. Interesting on essential differences with classical music; how the music is influenced by the Irish in London without becoming imitative and interesting local issues. I listen on a laptop but can only comment on iPhone - is that the way of these things?
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
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