Peggy Seeger in Conversation

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Peggy Seeger is the embodiment of the folk tradition. For over 70 years, she has informed, educated, agitated, and entertained in ways that have both defined the course of folk music culture but also redefined it, offering us new lenses through which to view it and innovative new techniques in songwriting itself. With her late husband Ewan MacColl, she helped to pioneer the British Folk revival of the 50s and 60s and, with the ‘Radio Ballads’, she developed innovations in broadcasting. In June, she will celebrate her 90th birthday having just released one final album of new material and completed a final farewell tour of the UK & Ireland. In January, she sat down for a chat with Stephen, in front of a live audience at Áras Chrónáin in Clondalkin, for TradFest 2025. They discussed her remarkable life in music, her approach to songwriting and her forthcoming new album. Huge thanks to everyone at TradFest and Áras Chrónáin in Clondalkin. This programme contains an excerpt of the BBC programme “Radio Ballads – The Big Hewer” first broadcast on 18th August 1961