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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. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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