Peggy Seeger in Iffley
Podcast |
Folk on Foot
Publisher |
Matthew Bannister
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Interview
Live Music
Music
Categories Via RSS |
Arts
Music
Music Interviews
Nature
Performing Arts
Science
Publication Date |
Feb 13, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:55:12

After a life on the road, folk legend Peggy Seeger has settled in the village of Iffley on the outskirts of Oxford.  In this episode she talks poignantly about her mother, a talented composer who died when she was fifty-three and Peggy was just eighteen.  Peggy recites a poem called “My Mother is Younger Than Me”.  She sings old union songs, including “The Miner’s Prayer”, recalls her time on the Greenham Common protests, shows us a piece of the wire fence she keeps on her mantelpiece and sings a song called “A Woman on Wheels” which is about a protester in a  wheelchair who she saw using bolt cutters to breach that fence. Come with us on a walk through Peggy Seeger’s life in an unforgettable episode of Folk on Foot.

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