Bonus episode: Martin Simpson at BBC Countryfile Live
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:05.7 | Fantastic to see you all here. |
| 0:07.5 | My name is Matthew Bannister, and I'm the host of a podcast called Folk on Foot, |
| 0:12.3 | and it does what it says on the tin. |
| 0:14.5 | It's basically where I go walking with a leading folk musician in a landscape that has inspired their music, |
| 0:20.8 | and we walk and talk, and they sing and play on location. with a leading folk musician in a landscape that has inspired their music. |
| 0:25.0 | And we walk and talk and they sing and play on location. |
| 0:28.9 | And one of the people that we've walked with is, I'm delighted to say, |
| 0:31.2 | Martin Simpson, who is here with us today. |
| 0:35.6 | Martin is regularly topping the polls of the greatest guitarist of all time. |
| 0:39.7 | He's been nominated no less than 31 times for Radio Two Folk Awards. He's won musician of the year twice. He's won album of the year twice. In fact, |
| 0:44.7 | I think they're going to ask him to stop taking part because he keeps winning Radio Two Folk Awards. |
| 0:49.5 | And Martin and I went on a walk, believe it or not, around Scunthorpe, |
| 0:55.0 | because that's where Martin grew up. |
| 0:57.6 | And what we're doing today is that we are recording a bonus edition of our podcast. |
| 1:04.7 | So if you applaud and cheer, you will be heard on the podcast, |
| 1:08.8 | which is going to be fantastic. |
| 1:10.2 | Martin is going to sing some songs. I'm going to talk to him,, which is going to be fantastic. Martin is going to sing some songs. |
| 1:12.1 | I'm going to talk to him, |
| 1:13.5 | and we're going to be treated to some of the songs from his new album, |
| 1:17.0 | which is not out yet. |
| 1:18.1 | It comes out at the end of August, |
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