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06 May, 2021 â By Lucy Popescu Simon Russell Beale plays song collector Cecil Sharp in BBC Radio 3âs Folk. Photo: BBC A TREAT for fans of Cecil Sharp House is Nell Leyshonâs drama, Folk. Originally commissioned by Hampstead Theatre, BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting an audio version of Leyshonâs play with Simon Russell Beale playing the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp. At the heart of the early 20th century folk revival, Sharp co-founded what is now the English Folk Dance and Song Society and collected around 5,000 songs from England and America. Leyshon discovered that ...
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