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  Frankie Armstrong: Cats of Coven Lawn review – at 80, still as intimate as ever

  Frankie Armstrong: Cats of Coven Lawn review – at 80, still as intimate as ever. (GFM Records)The Natural Voice authority marks her 80th year with an album of politics, yearning and otherworldliness, always stretching her sound

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  The week in radio and podcasts: New Storytellers; Led By the Science – review

  The week in radio and podcasts: New Storytellers; Led By the Science – reviewThe winners of the 2020 Charles Parker prize for best student radio feature captivate. Plus the science behind Boris Johnson’s Covid-19 response

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  ‘What’s royalty got to do with folk music?’ – The amazing story of Cecil Sharp House

  This place feels very important, but I don’t know why yet,” said Billy Bragg, wandering into Cecil Sharp House in 1986. Many of us have felt something similar, slipping from busy north London, though the English country garden, into the UK’s first dedicated folk arts centre.First opened in 1930, the building holds all the tension of the 20th century’s battles over the definition of “folk music” and who it belongs to. Visitors will feel it in the architectural push-pull between blunt, right-angle

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  ‘England 2 Colombia 0’: the story behind Kirsty MacColl’s classic song

  Kirsty MacColl used the game at the 1998 World Cup as a backdrop to her song. Football songs tend to be fairly bland affairs, expressions of love for a team, celebrations of communality. More interesting are the songs that take the drama and conflict of football and use it as a backdrop for the kitchen sink dramas and emotional conflicts of real life: songs such as Strachan, by the Hitchers, in which the protagonist avoids engaging with his girlfriend because he’s watching “a programme about a

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