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With author Rob Young

Nemone talks to author Rob Young about his book Electric Eden - Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music.

Author Rob Young talks about his book Electric Eden:Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music.

Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations - song collectors, composers, Marxist revivalists, folk-rockers, psychedelic voyagers, free festival-goers, experimental pop stars and electronic innovators.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 4 Aug 2010 13:00

Music Played

  • Supergrass

    Richard III

    • TELSTAR.
  • Arcade Fire

    We Used To Wait

    • MERCURY.
  • Elbow

    Grounds For Divorce

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Fiction.
  • Chilly Gonzales

    I Am Europe

    • Schmooze.
    • 1.
  • The Velvelettes

    Needle In A Haystack

    • MOD RAVES VOLUME 1.
    • Spectrum.
  • Maximum Balloon & Theophilus London

    Groove Me

    • Fiction.
  • Yazoo

    Nobody's Diary

    • Columbia.
  • Sugar

    If I Can't Change Your Mind

    • Creation Records.
  • Laura Marling

    Darkness Descends

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Virgin.
    • 1.
  • The Specials

    Rat Race

    • EMI.
  • Klaxons

    Echoes

  • Air

    Cherry Blossom Girl

    • Source Records.
  • Teenage Fanclub

    When I Still Have Thee

    • CD SINGLE.
    • PeMa.
    • 1.
  • Plants and Animals

    The Mama Papa

    • La La Land.
    • Secret City Records.
    • 1.
  • Aretha Franklin

    Respect

    • ATLANTIC.
  • Caribou

    Sun

    • City Slang.
  • Japan

    Life In Tokyo

    • The Edge Of The Eighties (Various Artists).
    • Sony BMG.
  • The Black Keys

    Everlasting Light

    • Nonesuch.
  • Hole

    Awful

    • DGC.
  • The Count & Sinden

    After Dark (feat. William Rees & Kai Fish)

    • CD SINGLE.
    • DOMINO.
    • 1.
  • Orange Juice

    Blue Boy

  • The Jim Jones Revue

    High Horse

    • PIAS RECORDINGS.
  • Stereolab

    Doubt (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 30 Jul 1991)

  • Laura Nyro

    Stoned Soul Picnic

    • Alternative 60's (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • Steppenwolf

    Born To Be Wild

    • MCA.
  • Villagers

    Ship Of Promises

    • CD SINGLE.
    • DOMINO.
    • 1.
  • Kraftwerk

    Trans-Europe Express

    • Cleopatra.
  • The Charlatans - Love Is Ending

  • White Denim

    Mirrored & Reversed

    • Hobbyism.
    • Full Time Hobby Records.
    • 8.
  • The Strokes

    12:51

    • ROUGH TRADE RECORDS.
  • The Hundred in the Hands

    Pigeons

    • WARP.
  • Best Coast

    Boyfriend

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Wichita.
    • 1.
  • R.E.M.

    Half A World Away (Radio 1 Session, 13 Mar 1991)

  • Clinic

    I'm Aware

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Domino.
    • 1.
  • Mansun

    Stripper Vicar

    • Parlophone.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Aug 2010 13:00