Sara Parker
Sara Parker is an award-winning independent producer, mainly for BBC Radio.
Her montage style gives voice to individuals and communities, often covering hard-edged social issues from prostitution and pornography to teenage violence and suicide.
Daughter of pioneering producer Charles Parker, one of her recent programmes explores the making of the Radio Ballads - a 1950s series produced by her father with folksinger/songwriters Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger,which revolutionized British radio feature-making.
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In the late 1950s, folk musicians Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and BBC radio producer Charles Parker joined forces on a radio endeavor unlike anything the BBC (or the world, for that matter) had heard before.
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Fifty years ago, folksingers Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger collaborated with BBC Radio producer Charles Parker to create an amazing body of work - the Radio Ballads.
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