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Hace 1 día · Here, in five superlative, succinct, funny and heartbreaking episodes was a reflection of the brutal effects of unemployment on Britain in the early years of Mrs Thatcher’s government. Thatcher’s unmistakable tones open James Graham’s stage play drawn from the series, reminding everyone of the human dignity and self-respect lost by ...
Hace 4 días · Catch up on your favourite BBC radio show from your favourite DJ right here, whenever you like. Listen without limits with BBC Sounds. Cerys' weekly round up of the blues you need!
Hace 3 días · Between 1982 and 1987 the band cut two albums and a dozen singles for Red Rhino records, all of which breached the Independent Chart's Top Twenty. Three BBC sessions (two for the legendary John Peel) were also squeezed into this period, and all of that material, including b-sides, a 7' given away with one of those albums and a song only ever recorded for the BBC, is included here.
Hace 1 día · In 1982, Alan Bleasdale’s TV series Boys from the Blackstuff, about unemployed Liverpudlian road-workers, distilled the Thatcherite evisceration of regional communities and working practices.
Hace 4 días · Cerys' weekly round up of the blues you need! This week she's joined by William Bell, legendary Stax recording artist and the composer of blues classic "Born Under A Bad Sign"! Show more Cerys ...
Hace 1 día · Prolific playwright James Graham was born in 1982, the year Alan Bleasdale's unforgettable series was televised. From Nottingham rather than Liverpool, Graham recognised in his own surroundings the predicaments of the main characters, the bonds between them and the importance to them of place and of shared stories. An admirer of Bleasdale's work, he had already acknowledged the older writer's ...
On April 30th, 1983, Legendary blues musician Muddy Waters dies of heart failure at age 70 in his Westmont, Illinois home. Waters was an important figure in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".
