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  1. NEW HOMES FOR OLD

    Date released
    Jan 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346194
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Ewan MacColl sings a ballad story about the Durham Aged Mineworkers’ Homes Association’s improvements to retired miner’s homes. NCB Commentary - No commentary for this story. E. MacColl...

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  2. Classic Scots Ballads (1997)

    Subject
    Linguistics; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD), £7.99

    Classic Scots ballads originally recorded by Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger in 1959. Tracks include: 1. Aikendrum 2. False Lover Won Back 3. Gairdener Chyld 4. Maid Gaed Tae the Mill 5. Elfin Knight 6....

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  3. Night in the City (1957 Television)

    Series
    Eye to Eye
    Director
    Denis Mitchell

    Television documentary. Impressions of life in a provincial city (Manchester) from evening to dawn giving a memorable picture of the loneliness of people’s lives. Among the people encountered is a busker...

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  4. Songs of the Coalfields

    Series name
    Mining Review Composite Editions
    Issue no
    CMR11
    NoS ID
    346848
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB synopsis: A collection of miners’ ballads. Ewan MacColl and Isla Cameron, leading folk singers of today, appear in this film to sing six traditional mining ballads: The Sandgate Nursing Song, The Best...

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  5. A WALK IN THE NEWS

    Date released
    May 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346208
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Ewan MacColl sings the story of Les Weightman, a machine operator at Denby Hall Colliery, who took up the challenge to walk 30 miles in 7 hours. Plus the coverage of the story by the "Coal...

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  6. HORSE SHIFT

    Date released
    Feb 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346237
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: The only miners’ pack of hounds in South Wales, with Ewan MacColl singing a ballad telling the story. NCB Song lyrics - Down in the Dulais Valley there’s a pit called Abercrave, And the...

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  7. Miners’ Campaign Tapes, The (2009)

    Subject
    History; Media studies; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.74

    These six short films, released for the first time, are a crucial document of a cataclysmic episode of British history 25 years ago. A testament to solidarity and activism, the Miners’ Campaign Tapes...

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