2 days ago
What is it about R6's Mark Radcliffe that makes me a teenager again?
A couple of weeks ago I was doing the long drive back home from Yorkshire with my husband, flicking through radio stations to stave off the boredom. Somewhere near Birmingham I picked up a warm, familiar Lancastrian voice and knew I'd be doing the rest of the journey with Mark Radcliffe as my companion.
The show happened to be exceptional — a special episode of The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2, Sat) subtitled 21st Century Folk Celebrates Railway 200. It put ordinary people together with some of Britain's best singer-songwriters to turn everyday lives into new ballads themed around the glamorous subject of railways. I'm not going to claim that everything in the programme is headed for inclusion in the national songbook but there were electric moments.
