PICK OF TODAY’S RADIO
THE FOLK SHOW WITH MARK RADCLIFFE, 9PM, RADIO 2
SINISTER songs bring a shudder to Mark Radcliffe’s show when he’s joined by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Lisa Knapp and singer Marry Waterson, who, along with composer and performer Nathaniel Mann, have formed a new trio (pictured), under the name Hack-Poets Guild. In the Bodleian Library, the trio found a cache of old broadside ballads and set them to music. There’s an awful lot about hangings and highwaymen, which they’ve turned into spine-chilling tracks for their debut album, Blackletter Garland.