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Peggy Seeger: Love The Earth

In a special show, folk legend Peggy Seeger shares songs in praise of our planet.

In a special show, folk legend Peggy Seeger shares songs in praise of planet Earth.

Peggy, a lifelong activist, singer, musician and songwriter, was born into a musical home in New York in 1935. There, through older half-brother Pete Seeger, she encountered Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. Guitarist Elizabeth Cotten was a family housekeeper.

In the 1950s Peggy travelled to Britain, where she stayed for many years. She performed widely with Ewan MacColl, writing and recording songs now considered standards of the genre.

With radio producer Charles Parker, Peggy and Ewan created the pioneering 成人快手 Radio Ballads: self-narrating programmes that interweaved the voices of real working people with songs inspired by the tales they told.

Peggy has described herself as an 'eco-feminist', writing songs in support of women's rights, and in defence of the environment.

In this, the final Folk Show of 2019, she joins Mark Radcliffe to consider how climate change is becoming a defining aspect of our age, and picks songs that celebrate our one and only planet.

57 minutes

Music Played

  • Irene Scott & Peggy Seeger

    Night Song

  • Loudon Wainwright III

    Hard Day On The Planet

  • Eddi Reader

    Wild Mountainside

  • Malvina Reynolds

    The World's Gone Beautiful

  • Pete Seeger

    Garbage

  • Nomos

    I Love The Trees

  • Deirbhile N铆 Bhrolch谩in

    Bring On The Wonder

  • Melissa Etheridge

    I Need to Wake Up

  • The Critics Group

    Sumer Is Icumen In

Broadcast

  • Wed 18 Dec 2019 21:00