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: Six Songs from Season 2
Julie Fowlis on the Shores of Loch Ness
Stick in the Wheel on the Road to Epping Forest
Fisherman‘s Friends in Port Isaac
Kerry Andrew/You Are Wolf at the Brockwell Lido
Seth Lakeman on Dartmoor
Jon Boden in the Loxley Valley
Season 2 Trailer
Bonus Episode: Six Songs from Season 1
Cara Dillon in Dungiven
Steve Knightley on the Exe Trail
Eliza Carthy (and Family) in Robin Hood's Bay
Sam Lee singing with Nightingales in Sussex
Karine Polwart at Fala Moor
The Young'uns in Hartlepool
Season 1 Trailer
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