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Freelance writer and record producer
Tim Healey is also a popular broadcaster. He has worked chiefly
for BBC Radio 4 for whom he presented the 'At Home with Healey'
series on the subjects of the Victorian Song and Supper Rooms; Murder
Ballads; Unusual Instruments; Britain's Town Waits; Political Songs;
the Great British Barn Dance; and John Clare as a Country Fiddler.
('An enlightening series'
The Financial Times)
Tim has also presented programmes
on 'Music of the Drovers Roads' and 'Music of the Canals and Waterways',
and broadcast more than once on the subject of Dickens and Music.
Additionally, he was a frequent contributor to John Peel's Radio 4's 'Home Truths',
among other programmes.
Tim runs Beautiful Jo Records and also directs the Oxford Waits
with whom he performs in 17th century costume.
RECENT
BROADCASTS
BBC Radio 3
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Friday 28th November 2008 7.40pm
A 20-minute broadcast on the mediaeval Goliards who wrote the satirical, often profane lyrics which Carl Orff set to music in his Carmina Burana.
Independant 'Choice'
BBC Radio 4
Let Me Entertain You (contributor)
Four-part history of popular entertainment, presented by John Sessions
Saturday 13 September 2008 – Mediaeval
Saturday 20 September 2008 – Elizabethan
Saturday 27 September 2008 – Restoration and beyond
Saturday 4 October 2008 - Victorian
BBC Radio 3
Stones that Speak
Secular carvings in mediaeval churches. Gargoyles, low-life minstrels,
pagan symbols, monks who bare their bums what are they doing in
places of worship? Three 15-minute radio essays…
Monday 6 August 11pm 2007 ‘Ungodly Entertainments’
Wednesday 8 August 2007 ‘The Bawdy Tradition’
Thursday 9 August 2007 ‘Creatures of Nightmare’
BBC
Radio 4
The Soldier’s Song
Barrack room ballads as sung today, in two world wars and earlier
Tuesday 7 November 2006 1.30pm
Repeated Saturday 11 November 2006 3.30pm
BBC
Radio 4
The Long View: John Bull (contributor)
Exploring the evolution of John Bull and his relevance to modern
British life
Tuesday 28 March 2006, 9am (repeated 9.30pm)
BBC
Radio 3
Twenty Minutes: Billy Budd, A Song of Innocence
Tim explores the sources of Benjamin Britten's inspiration
for the opera
Saturday 10 December 2005, 7.55pm
BBC Radio 4
Home Truths
Tim talks about The Family Slide Show
Saturday 16 July 2005, 9 am
BBC
Radio 3
Twenty Minutes: Blow the Man Down
Tim interviews shanty singers at Falmouth,
as interlude during HMS Pinafore at the Proms
Saturday 16 July 2005, 8.05pm
BBC
Radio 4
'How Strange the Change'
5-part series unlocking the mysteries of key signatures in music.
Why should major chords sound happy and minor chords sad? Why should
dogs recognise the octave?
Radio 4: Five programmes Monday 24th-Friday 28th January, daily
at 3.45pm
'Take one of these daily programmes all week and you will know the
answers, through the clear explanations of Tim Healey and clever
production of Dilly Barlow'
Gillian Reynolds's Choice, Telegraph
PICK
OF THE WEEK! Clare Balding , Radio 4
'Enter
the Workhouse'
Archive Hour recalling the story of the workhouse (contributor)
Saturday 8th January 2005, 8pm
'Home
Truths'
Tim talks about Re-enactors
Saturday 6 November 04 9am
John
Peel's Home Truths'
Tim talks about Wincing
Saturday August 04 9am
'John
Peel's Home Truths'
Tim
talks about De-cluttering
Saturday 25 October 9 AM
Repeated Monday 27 October 11 PM
'John
Peel's Home Truths'
Tim talks about Boomerang Kids
Saturday 23rd Aug 03, 9.00am
'A
Good Read'
Tim discusses 'From the Land of Green Ghosts'
by Pascal Khoo Thwe, HarperCollins, 2002
Tuesday 29 April 03, 4.30pm
(repeated Sunday 4 May 11.00pm)
'Lend
Me Your Ears'
Sounds of Dickens's London (contributor)
Tuesday 11 February-Tuesday 11 March 03
'High/Low,
Fast/Slow'
The extremes of pitch and tempo
Tuesday 6 August 02
'A Little of What You Fancy'
The story of the music halls
Part 1 Tuesday 24 December 02
Part 2 Tuesday 31 December 02
Tim
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