BBC Radio Ballads

[dunsbyowl1867]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads/2...eel/index.shtml

Radio documentary - 1st broadcast in 2006 alo available on CD.

I'm sure this will strike a few bells with many of us. Features songs by Julie Matthews, folk singer from Sheffield.

The Don Valley between Sheffield and Rotherham was once full of steelworks and many thousands of families relied on steel for their living. The Song of Steel offers a glimpse inside the lives of men and women who worked in the industry. In its heyday the city thumped to the sound of heavy drop forges working night and day, pub tables had guard rails to stop glasses vibrating onto the floor, and the air was black with dirt from the factory chimneys. Interviewer Vince Hunt talked to more than forty men and women who tell of hard shifts working alongside red-hot furnaces and the humour and stoicism that enabled them to survive such a world. Many of the stories are about the Steel, Peach and Tozer steelworks in Rotherham

[GrinderBloke]

Just listening to Radio Ballads - The Song of Steel... its available on BBC listen again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/ballads_aod...adioballadsteel

No just one for folk music fans.

I can feel the hairs standing up on the back of my neck already, good to have ordinary people take part in this type of programme