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Lisa Knapp in Tooting

Lisa Knapp in Tooting

FromFolk on Foot


Lisa Knapp in Tooting

FromFolk on Foot

ratings:
Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Aug 2, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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.
Released:
Aug 2, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (95)

“Modest people, playing gorgeous music, speaking articulately about areas they love. Fabulously calming” – one listener’s description of this multi-award-winning podcast in which Matthew Bannister goes walking with top folk musicians in the landscapes that have inspired them. “A restorative breathing space in sound” – The Telegraph. “Immaculately produced” – The Times