# Jean Ritchie
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Jean Ruth Ritchie (December 8, 1922 – June 1, 2015) was an American folk music singer, songwriter, and Appalachian dulcimer player. Her career bridged traditional and modern forms of folk music. In her youth she learned folksongs in the traditional way (orally, from her family and members of her community); and in adulthood she became a successful modern folksinger, promulgating songs in public through concerts and recordings.
Harold Shipman: The Killer Doctor
Harold Shipman: The Deadly Doctor
13 Aug 2024
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Doctors are among the most trusted members of our society. There’s a good reason for this: we entrust them with our most valuable commodity, our health. People share things with their doctors that they keep secret from everyone else, even their c…
Old Songs, New Memories
Our rendering of this ancient bittersweet song of love and loss dates back more than 45 years now. But each times the band plays it, it seems as new and fresh as a summer evening.
According to Flood lore, our version of this classic Appalachian folk song hearkens back to a hot summer’s night at the…
Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard: This Old Ballad Plays Like Peak Soap Opera
Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard is not a dusty relic. It is a scandal with a body count.
Known in later versions as Matty Groves, this ballad was already in writing by 1613 and had probably been circulating orally long before that. The plot is brutally efficient: a young man and a noblewoman begin…
Episode 1228: The Acoustic Cafe with Kev, April 28, 2026
THE ACOUSTIC CAFÉ is a fortnightly program featuring a mix of singer – songwriter, Celtic, Cajun, global roots, traditional and contemporary folk, blues, country blues, bluegrass, country, old timey and Americana music from Australia and around the world. Live to air, 8pm, every second Tuesday.In t…
Nottamun Town: The Song That Became Masters of War
Nottamun Town sounds like nonsense until it starts sounding familiar.
A rider enters a strange town where nobody helps, nobody speaks plainly, and responsibility seems to have dissolved into fog. The word “Nottamun” may simply be a folk-process version of “Nottingham,” but it also opens another doo…
Lord Bateman
Lord Bateman was a soldier. He sailed to the Turkish shore, landed in prison, and was freed by a woman who had no reason to help him — except that she wanted to. They made a vow: seven years. No other woman, no other man. Then come find me.
"Lord Bateman" is among the oldest ballads in this collect…
The Babes in the Wood Murders: | Part 1 with author Jean Ritchie
In October 1986, nine-year-old best friends Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows disappeared after going out to play near their homes on the Moulsecoomb estate in Brighton. The following afternoon, their bodies were discovered in Wild Park.
The case became known across Britain as the Babes in the Wood…
Nick Forster - Musician, eTown, Hot Rize, Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers_2026-09-25 interview on KZSC's "Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" by "Dangerous Dan" Orange & DJ "Spark Plug" (Dylan Estevez)
Boulder, like Santa Cruz, is a college town filled with artists & creativity, surrounded by green space; he's loving his Santa Cruz Guitar, and it's great to be a a part of their celebration. Nick graduated high school (in the Hudson Valley of New York) when he was 16 years old - young! - & not rea…
Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Josh White & Jean Ritchie and the first Folk Revival: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.5
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Jean Ritchie learned the old ballads the old way - at home in eastern Kentucky, from her own family, songs that had come down through generations. She may have been the last important singer who did. And the…
Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Josh White & Jean Ritchie and the first Folk Revival: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.5
Host Nate Wilcox talks with Dave Thompson, author of “An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music,” in a conversation first released in 2025 and returning now as part of Let It Roll From the Beginning..., in which the whole Let It Roll archive is being re-cast in chronolo…
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