After a life on the road, folk legend Peggy Seeger has settled in the village of Iffley on the outskirts of Oxford. In this episode she talks poignantly about her mother, a talented composer who died when she was fifty-three and Peggy was just eighteen. Peggy recites a poem called “My Mother is Younger Than Me”. She sings old union songs, including “The Miner’s Prayer”, recalls her time on the Greenham Common protests, shows us a piece of the wire fence she keeps on her mantelpiece and sings a song called “A Woman on Wheels” which is about a protester in a wheelchair who she saw using bolt cutters to breach that fence. Come with us on a walk through Peggy Seeger’s life in an unforgettable episode of Folk on Foot.
Bonus Episode: Jarlath Henderson at the Isle of Skye Festival of Small Halls
Bonus Episode: Su-a Lee at the Isle of Skye Festival of Small Halls
Rachel Newton at the Isle of Skye Festival of Small Halls
Bonus Episode: Front Room Festival Highlights
Bella Hardy in Edale
Kris Drever on Orkney
Bonus Xmas Episode: The Sheffield Carols with Jon Boden, Bella Hardy and The Melrose Quartet
John Jones and the Reluctant Ramblers walking to the Wickham Festival
Nancy Kerr along the Kennet and Avon Canal
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Bonus episode: Six Songs from Season 3
Bonus episode: Martin Simpson at BBC Countryfile Live
Duncan Chisholm at Sandwood Bay
Lisa Knapp in Tooting
John Smith in Brixham
The Unthanks on the Northumberland Coast
Martin Simpson in Scunthorpe
The Lost Words Spell Songs – Jackie Morris and Beth Porter in Pembrokeshire
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