Lisa Knapp in Tooting

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The singer and fiddle player Lisa Knapp takes Matthew to the south London borough of Tooting where she was born and brought up. She performs songs with links to the area and tells how she stumbled across the Tooting Tragedy – a story of neglect and ill treatment at a local children’s home in Victorian times that led to hundreds of deaths and caused an outcry led by Charles Dickens. Lisa uncovered a haunting ballad about the story and sings it in the graveyard where many of the children are buried.

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0:00.0	A couple of years ago, the Lonely Planet travel guide named the coolest neighbourhoods in the world.
0:19.4	There were parts of Seattle, Copenhagen, Florence, Dubai,
0:23.4	and alongside them, perhaps a bit surprisingly,
0:25.7	was Tooting, which is where I am this morning.
0:29.1	Tooting, according to the guide,
0:30.7	has become an Uber-Cool neighbourhood
0:32.6	without losing any of its gritty charm.
0:35.7	Apparently it's got the best curry restaurants in the world.
0:39.4	It's got an eclectic market.
0:41.7	And in two commons, it's got 200 acres of green space.
0:45.7	So if the Uber Cool Lot are heading for tooting,
0:48.7	folk on foot needs to be behind them.
1:00.0	Yeah. behind them....theirc...
1:01.0	... We're here to meet the South London resident Lisa Knapp,
1:30.7	who's one of the UK's most inventive and creative performers.
1:34.0	Whether she's singing her own songs or rearranging traditional music and words,
1:38.7	she brings a love of sound, a beautiful, clear voice,
1:42.1	and a fresh approach to all she touches.
1:44.8	You might have heard her exquisite setting of the words of Radio 4's shipping forecast,
1:49.3	or revelled in her latest album of songs about the month of May,
1:52.6	which is called Till April is Dead, a garland of May.
1:56.1	It features buzzing bees, chirping cuckoos and whirring clocks
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