Set Into Song

Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger and the Radio Ballads

Peter Cox

Take a communist playwright, actor, singer and songwriter and introduce him to a young American musician and singer half his age. They fall in love. Add an ex-submarine commander with an eccentric view of radio as Art. Send them with the new mobile tape recorder to railway yards, onto fishing vessels, down coal mines, in search of gypsy emcampments. Now read about the most compelling series of radio programmes ever made.

Published Labatie Books 2008