Jacey Bedford's Journal

We went into BBC Radio Leeds last night to do a live radio spot on the Durbervilles' Roots Show. Chatted a bit and sang three songs (including 2 of the new ones) in two ten-minute segments over the course of the hour-long show.

Wherever you are in the world you can listen again via the miracle of the BBC's i-player
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p008728f/The_Durbervilles_13_06_2010/

It's a small world. It turns out that one of the Durbervilles is the son of Laurie Walsh, a potter that both H and I knew on the craft circuit many years ago. We always had a soft spot for him - a big genial bloke who gave good hugs. He's retired now and enjoying a life of bowls - the sporting kind not the pottery kind. Nice to have news of him after twenty-some years.

My chum Tom Bliss was on Radio 4's Word of Mouth with his Pie poem - a recipe made up entirely of English place names. It put a real smile on my face this morning.

If anyone wants to listen, The Pie Poem is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml

Scroll to 'word of mouth' and click on 'listen.' It's the very last item and you can fast forward by dragging the bar.

In a reply to brownnicky's reply to my reply to heleninwales' post about introverts and extroverts I ended up recalling an Artisan memory from the time we were asked to sing live on the Ned Sherrin Show, Loose Ends, live on Radio 4



Unfortunately due to the rush of getting there from rehearsals we didn't have the opportunity to set up a recording, so we never got to hear it ourselves, however this is the song we had to relearn very fast: Left Right, Right Left