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The Folk Show
John Barker hosts Manx Radio's weekly Folk Programme showcasing the best in traditional and modern folk music
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Episodes
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FOLK SHOW 21 OCTOBER 2025
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
JB gives you the best in folk from the IOM and around the globe including the likes of Edwina Hayes, Tarren and Robert Plant and Saving Grace
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FOLK SHOW 14 OCTOBER 2025
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
JB starts Banjovial and finishes with Nitetracks as he plays the best in folk and roots from the Isle of Man and around the world . . !
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FOLK SHOW 07 OCTOBER 2025
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
JB hosts A.D.A.M . .Siger, Brighde Chaimbeul and some Peter Gabriel on the banjo!
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FOLK SHOW 30 SEPTEMBER 2025
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
JB pays tribute to that chameleon of the bass, the great Danny Thompson who died recently plus music from the likes of Jack McLean, Flook and Elephant Sessions
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FOLK SHOW 23 SEPTEMBER 2025
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
JB with the best in folk from the Bothy Band to Dan Walsh via the Cartographers!
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FOLK SHOW 16 SEPTEMBER 2025
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Several Hares on a Mountain, Peggy Seeger, McTullagh Vannin and John Smith all in the mix introduced by John Barker
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FOLK SHOW 09 SEPTEMBER 2025
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
JB is back with his unique selection of all that's best in Folk and Roots from the IOM and around the globe
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FOLK SHOW 02 SEPTEMBER 2025
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
It may start with Led Zeppelin - but fear not it is the Folk Show with JB!
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FOLK SHOW 26 AUGUST 2025
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
JB with his best selection of folk and roots music from the Island and around the globe including The Hunch, Odette Mitchell Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe with Daniel Quayle and five drunken landladies!
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FOLK SHOW 19 AUGUST 2025
Tuesday, 19 August 2025
JB looks forward to this year's Shrewsbury Folk Festival with music from the likes of the Levellers, Dougie McLean and some bullocks
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FOLK SHOW 12 AUGUST 2025
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
John is back with this weekly selectin of folk and roots music from the Isle of Man and around the world.
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FOLK SHOW 05 AUGUST 2025
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
More great folk and roots sounds from JB as he gears up for another busy folk festival season!
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FOLK SHOW 29 JULY 2025
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
JB with the best in folk and roots from the likes of Tamsin Elliott and Tarek Elazhary, Callum Stewart, Lankum and some sounds from Yn Chrunniaght
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FOLK SHOW 22 JULY 2025
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
John brings you the very best in folk and roots music, including tracks from a number of artists performing at this year's Yn Chruinnaght.
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FOLK SHOW 15 JULY 2025
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
In this week's programme, John brings you his usual mix of folk and roots music, including a look ahead to next week's Yn Chruinnaght Festival.
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FOLK SHOW 08 JULY 2025
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
More great sounds of folk and roots from the IOM and around the world from the likes of Lady Maisery, Juan Tabor and Martin Simpson and Trip
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FOLK SHOW 01 JULY 2025
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
JB spins some Lisa Knapp and Gerry Divers, has a broken pledge and two tracks about cuckoos!
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FOLK SHOW 24 JUNE 2025
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
JB returns with more great music from the likes of Bonny Light Horseman, Stiofan O'Treabhair and the Dubliners
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FOLK SHOW 17 JUNE 2025
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
JB looks forward to this year's Yn Chrunniaght Festival with guests Chloe Woolley and Jo Callister
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FOLK SHOW 10 JUNE 2025
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
JB spins some Capercaille, Lewis McLaughlin, Rachel Sermanni and songs for Nova Scotia. I feel love!
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FOLK SHOW 03 JUNE 2025
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
JB is back in the studio after his travels in northern climes and has music new and old from the likes of Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Trip, Gnoss and Brooks Williams
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FOLK SHOW 27 MAY 2025
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
JB continues is back in his wild aviary with more music about birds with sounds from the likes of Pauline Scanlan, Fellow Pynins and Paddy O'Brien
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FOLK SHOW 20 MAY 2025
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
JB has a song for May, some John Martyn, Imagined Village and left over birds!
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FOLK SHOW 13 MAY 2025
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
JB brings you his customary wonderfully eclectic mix of all things folk from around the globe
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FOLK SHOW 06 MAY 2025
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
JB is back with his selection of all the best in folk - and a lot of artists who have played here on the Isle of Man . . .with tracks from the likes of Jenn Butterworth, Kelly Joe Phelps, Silly Wizard and Gigspanner Big Band
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FOLKS SHOW 22 APRIL 2025
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
JB spins the best in Folk and roots from the likes of Filkin's Drift, Neil Young and False Lights
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FOLK SHOW 15 APRIL 2025
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
JB spins the best in folk from the likes of Project Smok, Capercaille, Rachel Newton and the Big Wheel Blues Band!
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FOLK SHOW 08 APRIL 2025
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
JB with another great selection including a Manx-Breton collaboration and some music of Morocco recorded live in Marrakech!
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FOLK SHOW 01 APRIL 2025
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
JB with his every tasteful and eclectic best of folk with the likes if Natalie Merchant, Bert Jansch, Wood, Wilson, Carthy and our own Scran
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FOLK SHOW 25 MARCH 2025
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
JB brings us a great mix of folk and trad old and new, including Fluke, Liz Overs and music from 'one of the best folk albums of the past few years'...
