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The Parson & the Songmen

The Parson & the Songmen

著者： Mike Bosworth
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The Reverend Sabine Baring Gould was an exceptional parson and squire from Devonshire, England.
He is probably best remembered as the composer of the hymn 'Onward Christian Soldiers'.
Born in Exeter in 1834, he died at his estate, Lewtrenchard Manor in West Devon, in 1924.
As 2024 is the centenary of his death it gives me the opportunity to spotlight what he considered to be the most important achievement of his life, that of collecting the old folk songs of Devonshire, and later Cornwall, as he termed it, 'from the mouths of the people'.
Join me as I tell stories about, and sing songs from, this far from ordinary Victorian country parson as he travelled by pony and trap across his native Devonshire seeking out songs that now form a major part of the English folk song tradition.

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  • S3 10 One Day In October

    S3 10 One Day In October
    2025/10/21

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    In this episode of The Parson and the Songmen we join Mike at Ashwater Church, in the far west of Devon, for a day of 'ringing and singing'.

    One Day In October are the first four words of a very special song that the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould collected, telling of a bell ringing competition that took place at Ashwater church some two hundred years ago.

    For the last two years this event has been remembered in the form of a day centred around bell ringing, organised by Jon Bint, Vice-Chair of the Devon Association of Ringers and Marilyn Tucker from Devon-Based Wren Music.

    Support the show

    Mike's website: mikebosworth.uk

    Podcast producer: jontidball@hotmail.co.uk

    https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/

    Mike's YouTube page:
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos

    Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group: https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/

    Simon Mayor: mandolin.co.uk

    Mike O'Connor: http://www.lyngham.co.uk/

    Barbara Griggs: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857

    Pete Coe: https://petecoe.co.uk/

    Castle Heritage Centre, Bude: https://www.thecastlebude.co.uk/

    Devon Association of Ringers: https://www.devonbells.co.uk/

    Wren Music: https://www.wrenmusic.co.uk/
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    16 分
  • S3 9 Harvest Home

    S3 9 Harvest Home
    2025/10/07

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    The poet John Keats called Autumn the 'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'. A time for reflection and also a time when 'all is safely gathered in' before the onset of winter.

    Those words, of course, come from the harvest hymn We Plough The Fields And Scatter, and in this episode of The Parson And The Songmen we discover the origins of what we know as The Harvest Festival church service and find out more about the man behind its creation - Robert Stephen Hawker, the Vicar of Morwenstow in North Cornwall. Hawker was known to The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould who saw something of himself in this larger than life, multi-talented, eccentric figure.

    So, let's join Mike, in conversation with local historian and Hawker enthusiast, Matt Thomas, Outreach Officer at the Castle Heritage Centre, Bude.


    Support the show

    Mike's website: mikebosworth.uk

    Podcast producer: jontidball@hotmail.co.uk

    Follow Mike on: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/

    Mike's YouTube page for Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould songs:
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos

    Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024: https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/

    Simon Mayor, ace mandolinist: mandolin.co.uk

    Mike O'Connor, musicologist and musician: http://www.lyngham.co.uk/

    Barbara Griggs, Cornish-based Harpist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857

    Pete Coe, One Man Folk Industry: https://petecoe.co.uk/

    Matt Thomas, local historian and Hawker Enthusiast - Outreach Officer, Castle Heritage Centre, Bude: https://www.thecastlebude.co.uk/
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    24 分
  • S3 8 Catch Me If You Can

    S3 8 Catch Me If You Can
    2025/09/22

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    'Catch Me If You Can' is the title of a cassette tape, (originally released in 1978 and please search the interweb if you're too young to know what a cassette tape is) released by Pete Coe who spent a week in the company of a Cornish travelling family, recording songs and stories about their way of life in the early 1900s.

    Mike has known Pete since the 1960s in Birmingham where they both sang at The Black Diamond Folk Club, held in the Drovers Arms. Pete went on to become, as described by BBC Radio 2, A 'One-Man Folk Industry' and is still sought out by major folk-festivals in Britain to appear to this day.

    This podcast focuses on the reissue, this year, of 'Catch Me If You Can' on CD and features a reunion between Mike and Pete at Dartmoor Folk Festival as well as some amazing soundbites from the family about their life on the road.


    Support the show

    Mike's website: mikebosworth.uk

    Podcast producer: jontidball@hotmail.co.uk

    Follow Mike on: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/

    Mike's YouTube page for Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould songs:
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos

    Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024: https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/

    Simon Mayor, ace mandolinist: mandolin.co.uk

    Mike O'Connor, musicologist and musician: http://www.lyngham.co.uk/

    Barbara Griggs, Cornish-based Harpist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857

    Pete Coe, One Man Folk Industry: https://petecoe.co.uk/

    Matt Thomas, local historian and Hawker Enthusiast - Outreach Officer, Castle Heritage Centre, Bude: https://www.thecastlebude.co.uk/
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    19 分
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