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Billy Bragg shares new music

The best acoustic and folk music, with guest Billy Bragg.

The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

This week, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg talks about the themes that have inspired his new album, The Million Things That Never Happened, which Billy calls a "pandemic blues" record.

Billy - a distinctive voice in alternative music since the early 1980s - has long combined folk, country, punk and soul to reflect British society on songs like Between The Wars, Sexuality, Levi Stubbs' Tears and A New England.

57 minutes

Music Played

  • Cara Dillon

    The Hill of Thieves

  • Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow

    The Fox

  • Maja Lena

    Antares

  • Rod Stradling

    Highland Mary / Old Tom of Oxford

  • Sultans of String

    Bang Bang (feat. Tara Salah Moneka & Ahmed Moneka)

  • Billy Bragg

    Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained

  • Billy Bragg

    Freedom Doesn't Come For Free

  • Billy Bragg

    Good Days & Bad Days

  • NoGood Boyo

    Y Bardd O Montreal (The Bard From Montreal)

  • The Lost Words - Spell Songs

    Oak (feat. Kris Drever)

  • Skerryvore

    Happy To Be 成人快手 (feat. Sharon Shannon)

Broadcast

  • Wed 3 Nov 2021 21:00