Oh - thank you so very much. Your posting prompted me to check out the BBC website, and I
discovered that I can download the podcasts via iTunes.
My ggrandparents and their six children emigrated from Neath, Glamorgan to the U. S. in
the 19th century. Several cd's of Welsh male choirs are on my shelf, and Myfanwy is
one of my favorite songs, so I'll definitely download this podcast as soon as it's
available.
Thanks again,
Nancy Edwards
Georgia - U. S.
On Apr 21, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Martin Briscoe wrote:
I think radio programmes on the BBC website can be listened to
online
overseas so tomorrow's Soul Music might interest some people.
Hopefully they will be able to listen online after the broadcast.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418kfw
Myfanwy
Tomorrow 22 April at 11:30 BBC Radio 4
Series 18 Episode 4 of 5
Duration:
30 minutes
First broadcast:
Tuesday 22 April 2014
The hauntingly beautiful Welsh song Myfanwy 'is in the air in Wales'
according to singer Cerys Matthews. She along with others discuss what the
melodic tale of unrequited love means to them. They include a Welsh woman
living in Sicily for whom the song represents 'hiraeth', a longing or
homesickness for Wales and another who believes it expresses the 'wounded
soul of the Welsh'. A man remembers how his late brother and he used to sing
it in pubs in North Wales and how the song symbolises the unrequited love he
felt for him. Members of the Ynysowen choir, started after the mining
disaster in Aberfan as a way of dealing with the emotion, talk about the
song's power, and an ex soldier recalls digging for survivors with lines
from it playing in his head "Give me your hand, my sweet Myfanwy".
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
martin(a)mbriscoe.me.uk
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