Peggy Seeger performs and talks on BBC Radio 3 "In Tune" 2011-11-16 FLAC master

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Legendary folk singer and musician Peggy Seeger performs live in the studio. Peggy chats to presenter Suzy Klein about her incredible career as a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist ahead of her upcoming performance at Kings Place.

In the 1950s, left-leaning singers such as Paul Robeson and The Weavers began to find that life became difficult because of the influence of McCarthyism. Seeger visited Communist China and as a result had her U.S. passport withdrawn; the US State Department – which had been opposed to Seeger's trip to Moscow, where the CIA had monitored the US delegation — was incensed that Seeger had gone to China against official "advice."[1] The authorities had already warned her that her passport would be impounded, effectively barring her from further travel, were she to return to the USA.[1] She therefore decided to tour Europe – later finding out that she was on a blacklist sent to European governments.[1] Staying in London in 1956, she was accompanying herself on banjo, when Ewan MacColl fell in love with her. Previously married to director and actress Joan Littlewood, MacColl left his second wife, Jean Newlove, to become Seeger's lover. However, in 1958, Seeger's work permit for the UK expired and she was about to be deported. This was narrowly averted by a plan, concocted by MacColl and Seeger, in which she married the folk singer Alex Campbell, in Paris, on January 24, 1959, in what Seeger described as a "hilarious ceremony". This marriage of convenience allowed Seeger to gain British citizenship and continue her relationship with MacColl.[2] MacColl and Seeger were later married (in 1977), following his divorce from Newlove, and they remained together until his death in 1989. They had three children: Neill, Calum, and Kitty. They recorded and released several albums together on Folkways Records, along with Seeger's solo albums, and other collaborations with the Seeger Family and the Seeger Sisters.

So she seems to have been on the same "being a nuisance course" as Joan Baez.


01 Introduction

02 Occupation is on

03 Talk

04 You don’t know how lucky you are

05 Talk

06 Once Again

07 Outro