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Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

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Journalist Richard Littlejohn explores the history of protest through music, talking to musicians and social commentators. He asks whether the music really did make a difference.

Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn has a not-so-guilty secret: he loves left-wing protest songs.

Littlejohn, an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, is widely considered to be a right-wing controversialist. But a trawl through his extensive record collection paints a wholly different picture. He's got a dozen Billy Bragg albums for a start and is a great admirer of the Bard of Barking. In fact, since he discovered Bob Dylan's Masters of War as a schoolboy, Littlejohn has been fascinated by protest songs.

In this two part series, Littlejohn explores the history of protest through music. He talks to musicians and social commentators, including Tom Robinson and Trevor Phillips and plays music from everyone from Bob Dylan through Neil Young and Steel Pulse.

Although the Americans invented the protest song, there's a rich British tradition which can be traced from the Fifties folk boom via Dononvan, punk and reggae (Steel Pulse, The Specials), to Elvis Costello, the Jam, the Clash and Tom Robinson.

But this series is more than just Protest's Greatest Hits. Littlejohn asks: did the music really make a difference or did it just ride an incoming tide? And where are all the stirring protest songs today?

57 minutes

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Wed 5 Oct 2016 22:00
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Neil Young

    Flags Of Freedom

  • Bob Dylan

    Blowin' In The Wind

    • The Best Of Bob Dylan.
    • Columbia.

  • Pete Seeger

    Where Have All The Flowers Gone

    • Children Of The Revolution.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 11.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Respect

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Get Up, Stand Up

    • Island.

  • The Clash

    The Guns Of Brixton

    • Epic.

  • The Specials

    Free Nelson Mandela

    • Now That's What I Call Music 1984 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 4.

  • Billy Bragg

    Between the Wars

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Arlo Guthrie

    When A Soldier Makes It Home (Live)

  • TD Lind

    Bow Down

  • Woody Guthrie

    This Land Is Your Land

    • American Roots: A History Of American Folk Music.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Wed 5 Oct 2016 22:00
    大象传媒 Radio 2