“Ewan MacColl is best remembered among the wider populace for penning the folk standard ‘Dirty Old Town’ and the Grammy-award-winning ballad ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’. But his legacy goes far beyond such much-loved standards.
A new Sky Arts documentary, ‘Set The Night On Fire’, examines both the man and his music and features insightful interviews with family members, including his widow Peggy Seeger – a highly acclaimed and influential figure on the Trans-Atlantic folk circuit in her own right.”
https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2021/11/sky-arts-documentary-ewan-maccoll/
I really like Ewan MacColl and the compilation i have of his had been played to death.
I wasn’t aware of this documentary so will check it out.
It will be worth a listen just for the Harp and a Monkey soundtrack!
I watched this last night and enjoyed it. Interested to learn he wrote The Manchester Rambler in 1932 when he was 17. A bit like Richard Thompson writing Meet On The Ledge at a similar age. The Manchester Rambler is regularly heard at singarounds in the NW
Repeated tonight/tomorrow morning 12.30am 4th December