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Sean Street reappraises one of World War Two's most enduring poets, the Anglo-American pilot John Gillespie Magee. He was only 19 when killed in a mid-air collision over Lincolnshire. The son of missionaries, he was educated, like his idol Rupert Brooke (for whom he wrote a poem) at Rugby, before moving to the USA. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force ahead of the US entry into the war. His sonnet 'High Flight' - read for the programme by Samuel West - is one of the best known poems of the conflict and was quoted by President Reagan following the Challenger disaster. 

Others taking part are poet Andrew Motion, composer Bob Chilcott, Rubgy School librarian Rusty MacLean, aviator and Magee fan Ray Haas, Library of Congress archivist Cheryl Fox and veteran pilots from the RCAF.

First broadcast on 1st November 2009 BBC Radio 4
Presented by Sean Street
Produced by Alan Hall

High Flight

Leylines

The song "Baai" from Emmanuel Jal & Abder Gadir Salim about the end of an appalling war instantly got my attention when i heard it watching one of my favourite movies "Blood Diamond".

This is my edit of it, hope you dig.

Download (bandcamp):
https://haugli.bandcamp.com/track/emmanuel-jal-baai-haugli-edit
Artwork:
http://clipartix.com/peace-sign-clip-art-image-34510/

Download

Emmanuel Jal ft. Abdel Gadir Salim - Baai (Haugli edit)

Ep2 Launch Tickets: https://olaszmidt.bandcamp.com/merch/ticket-for-ep2-launch-at-everyman-cinema-york

Ep2 available to pre-order on 12' and Cd here: 
https://olaszmidt.bandcamp.com/

EP2 Launch at Everyman Cinema, York on  Monday 28th of January 2019. Tickets via Bandcamp on Sale: Friday 16/11/18

Official EP2 release 25/01/19
Bandcamp/ Spotify/ itunes/ Deezer ...

Love Yourself

Love Yourself (Single Version)

emphatic third single from british shoegaze dreampop duo Dreams of Empire

Recorded near Brighton, UK in February 2019

dreamsofempire@gmail.com

Swarm

It's Christmas Eve so for this week's mixtape we bring you an hour of seasonal songs - and from 3am today they're yours to keep via http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/trintro - our small seasonal gift, made possible by the generosity of the artists concerned. And so onto the vexed subject of Christmas Singles - of which said mixtape entirely consists.

To declare an interest, in childhood I sang in my local church choir - briefly rising to the dizzy heights of Head Chorister before my voice broke in the early 1960s.  So although smartphones, social media and adventurous new artists very much float my boat, in some areas I'm still a traditionalist. My idea of a Christmas soundtrack has always been more Carols From King's than seasonal cash-ins by the likes of Slade, Wizzard and Wham!

But there's no getting away from it: Christmas Singles are now a permanent part of the UK's musical landscape, and this year it seemed like every emerging artist in the land had decided to make one. My colleague Mar De Miguel at our Fresh On The Net blog rashly put out a request for seasonally-themed songs and by early December had already received well over three hundred for her Christmas Day special.

For this mixtape, I had to listen - with gritted teeth - to every single track uploaded to BBC Introducing in the last three months that had "Christmas" in the title. Imagine! And yet buried in that vast sugary snowdrift of clichéd sleighbells and schlock sentimentality, there were nineteen gems that I actually liked very much. Some of them funny, some cynical, some genuinely affecting… and some so silly and strange they were simply irresistible. Yes, Lynne Butler with your Yodelling Christmas Song, I'm talking about you.

Have a cool Yule everybody and we'll be back next week with a small selection of the many Introducing artists we think you should look out for in 2013.

FREE SWIM - A Rip Roaring Christmas [start 0:13]
http://www.facebook.com/freeswimswimfree

HOLLY AND THE WOLF - Marzipan Reindeer [start 04:28]
http://www.hollyandthewolf.com

SIDE SHOW - Cashing in on Christmas [start 07:13]
https://www.facebook.com/SideShowUK

KARIINA GRETERE - Twas The Night Before Christmas [start 9:25]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoymPut7ME0
http://www.kariina.com
 
BOYDZOID - Christmas Carol [start 13:48]
http://www.soundcloud.com/boidzoid

JACEN BRUCE - Christmas and New Year [start 15:38]
http://www.jacenbruce.com

THE OTHER GUYS - Christmas Gets Worse Every Year [start 18:18]
http://www.otherguys.co.uk

LAURENCE MADE ME CRY - You Can't Have Christmas, It's Mine [start 22:56]
http://www.laurencemademecry.com

LEANIE & THE XMAS FACTORS - Cardboard Christmas [start 27:33]
http://www.leanie.com

THE FAM L E - Happy Christmas Haters [start 30:30]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf-ou1J3aig

OF ARROWE HILL - Christmas Distance [start 33:55]
http://www.facebook.com/ofarrowehill

FALLINGHAM FAIR - Think Of It As Christmas [start 36:29]
http://www.facebook.com/fallinghamfair

SWAMP DUCK - Duckin' Out Of Christmas [start 40:26]
http://www.swampduckmusic.co.uk/

CORNELIA BROWN - Christmas For Everyone [start 43:23]
http://www.corneliabrown.net

LIFE IN A BLENDER - Hey, Christmas [start 46:12]
http://www.lifeinablender.net

JESS MORGAN - Christmas Eve [start 50:11]
http://www.jessmorgan.co.uk

FLEECE - The Banks Have Stolen Christmas [start 53:47]
http://soundcloud.com/fleecerock

TURBO LASER - Sexual Christmas [start 57:29]
http://www.facebook.com/turbolasermusic

LYNNE BUTLER - A Yodelling Christmas Song [start 1:00:37]
http://www.lynnebutler.co.uk

BBC Introducing Mixtape 24th December 2012

The third single from BBC 6 Music's 'Ones to Watch 2021' Manchester artist Test Card Girl. Described as 'two minutes of life-affirming Mancunian electropop' by Tom Robinson (BBC 6Music Introducing Mixtape https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sj42) Don't Go is a song for anyone who's had to remind themselves repeatedly not to return to a person or situation. Combining elements of synth pop with a simple catchy playground melody, this is a summer song to brighten the mood. Dance away bad times and regrets accompanied by an 8-bit band of synthesised sounds.

Don't Go (Full release 26.03.2021)

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BBC Introducing Mixtape 24th December 2012

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