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Great Aunt Mary's Tune

Lucy Neal reviews the archive of Victorian reformer Mary Neal and the divisions in the English Folk Dance movement. From 2007.

Mary Neal was a suffragette, social-worker, colleague and later adversary of Cecil Sharp during the great English Folk Dance revival at the start of the 20th century.

Lucy Neal goes in search of a home for the valuable archive of her once renowned great great-aunt.

Readers:

Geraldine James
John Rowe

Producer: Beaty Rubens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.

30 minutes

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Sat 1 Jun 202400:30
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