Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 3,03 Apr 2020,14 mins

SeriesPaul Robeson in Five Songs

5. Joe Hill

The Essay

Available for over a year

Marybeth Hamilton summons up the ghosts of both Joe Hill and Paul Robeson as she explores the ways Robeson was so completely erased from culture and memory for many Americans. ‘If any one song in Robeson’s repertoire sums up those histories of denial and silencing it is Joe Hill.’ Producer: Mark Burman

Programme Website
More episodes