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Is there another country that is so alienated from its own music?
NICK MATTHEWS looks back on the continuing legacy of Alan Bush, the Workers Music Association’s Topic Records and BBC Radio 3
LEGENDS: Maddy Prior, Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2016

THE Tories persist with their attacks on the BBC, despite the fundamentally conservative nature of the institution, and its role as a key part of the state’s ideological apparatus. 

This last is what makes the Beeb problematic for the left. However, the sheer range and depth of its coverage means that some amazing stuff does get past the self-censors.

As a great fan of Radio 3, I was recently delighted to hear the late great Norma Waterson and Alan Bush on the same day. 

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