Strange Fruit is a unique two-hour radio show exploring the world of underground, strange and generally neglected music. All shows are themed and all shows set out to give the most hardened of sound-hounds some new delight to sample. The show is also unique in providing homework for undergraduate students on North West Kent College’s Foundation Degree in Professional Writing (who dig up many of the odd facts featured in the links between tracks). The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight. Every other week the show is now presented by Jeremy Smith and as the two promotional pictures that he sent consisted as one of him covered in mud and the other of him covered in guinea pigs he is obviously mad as a bagful of cheese, which means he will fit in here just fine!
He writes: I’ve been a huge music fan ever since my parents bought me a transistor radio and I would listen to the sixties pirate music stations at nights under the covers. This love of live music has stayed with me to this day and I still love standing in a small club like the Borderline in London with some mates and watching a band with a pint in my hand. With the Strange Fruit radio show, I want to continue the trend of doing themed shows and playing the music I love..
Strange Fruit 138 – Protest Songs
Songs where the artist had something to say and decided to say it in a song!
Featured Album: Galloping Coroners: Dancing in the Sun
Tracks
1 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Ohio
2 TV Smith: Expensive Being Poor
3 Chumbawumba: Tubthumping
4 Paul Robeson: Joe Hill
5 Bruce Springsteen: Youngstown
6 Galloping Coroners: Conjuring up the Wonder Stag
7 Special A.K.A.: War Crimes (The Crime Remains the Same)
8 Gene Clark & Carla Olsen: Deportee (Plane Wreck at los Gatos)
9 Neil Innes: Protest Song
10 The Who: My Generation
11 Generation X: Your Generation
12 Galloping Coroners: With My Ancestors
13 Country Joe and the Fish: I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die
14 Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Song
15 Blam Blam Blam: There is no Depression in New Zealand
16 MC5: Kick out the Jams
17 Utah Phillips: This Land is Not Your Land
18 Public Enemy: Fight the Power
19 Miriam Makeba: Soweto Blues
20 Joshua White: Bad Housing Blues
21 Galloping Coroners: Dancing with the Sun
22 Attila the Stockbroker's Barnstormer: This is Free Europe
23 Bob Dylan: Only a Pawn in their Game
24 Dead Kennedys: Kill the Poor
25 The Groundhogs: Thank Christ for the Bomb
26 Billy Bragg: A New England
27 The Men They Couldn't Hang: The Ghosts of Cable Street
28 The Pogues: Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
29 Sam Cooke: A Change is Going to Come
30 Neil Young: Southern Man
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