The charismatic Peggy Seeger – singer, songwriter, feminist, icon, Ewan MacColl’s partner and muse – is the undisputed queen of folk and political song. Join Peggy and her son Calum MacColl, an ...

Peggy Seeger, now 82, has spent most of her life in Britain, arriving in 1956 via the Netherlands, a Radcliffe dropout invited to London by Alan Lomax to play banjo in a group he’d hoped would be ...

The search for survivors of a coal mine explosion in northern China reminded me of the Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl song “The Ballad of Springhill” and its line “Bone and blood is the price of coal.” ...

Ewan MacColl--Four loom weaver--Springhill disaster--Song of the Iron Road--Barnyards of Delgaty--Scolding wife--I'll mot marry at all--An old man came courting me--unknown--unknown--Farewell to ...

Veteran of a forty five year career, author of innumerable classic songs (including Gonna Be an Engineer and Ballad of Springhill), campaigner for women’s rights, sister of Pete Seeger, partner of ...

Born James Henry Miller in 1915, MacColl became prominent on the folk scene in the 1950s and was also a labour activist and actor. This affectionate documentary offers insights into all these aspects ...