The Ballad Of Britain by Will Hodgkinson, featuring unaccompanied singing by Alex Neilson and Lavinia Blackwall of Trembling Bells.
In 2009 Will Hodgkinson took off on a field-recording trip across Britain, to discover if folk music was still alive in the 21st century. The resulting book, The Ballad Of Britain, has since become one of the key texts in the folk song revival. Will and Alex Neilson, leader of Trembling Bells, celebrate the arcane mysteries of British music and show that traditional folk is a world of sex, death, witchcraft and misery. Will and Alex are joined by Trembling Bells' Lavinia Blackwall, who will wrap her dulcet tones around some of Britain's most horrific ballads.