Here are a selection of links to other sites and resources about Ewan MacColl. We can’t vouch for the accuracy of all the content, so please let us know if you find broken links, missing information or inaccuracies. If you know of other resources that we should be linking to, please let us know via the contact page.
Websites Links:
Ewan MacColl digital shop – the family are gradually making Ewan’s catalogue available to download. All the Radio Ballads are available here.
Peggy Seeger’s Website: Peggy Seeger
Kirsty MacColl’s Website: Kirsty MacColl
Working Class Movement Library – Extensive information on Ewan’s work in music, theatre & radio.
Toppermost – A thorough and well written overview of Ewan’s life and recordings by Andrew Shields on the excellent Toppermost blog.
Studs Terkel Radio Archives: Interviews with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger.
Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger discuss Scottish Folk Music
Interviewing Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger
Interviewing Ewan MacColl in London pt 1
Interviewing Ewan MacColl in London pt 2
The Radio Ballads:
All the Radio Ballads are now available to download here: Radio Ballads on Ewan MacColl’s Bandcamp page
All the transcripts of the Radio Ballads are available via The Charles Parker Archive Trust here: Radio Ballad Transcripts
Further Information can be found on these links:
BBC information on the original Radio Ballads
The Charles Parker Archive
BBC information on the 2006 Radio Ballads
Primary Transmission by Broadcaster – Excerpts from the Radio Ballads set against a dance music backdrop
Online Discographies:
The Last Great Record – personal reviews of all Ewan’s recordings by blogger ‘The Jukebox Rebel’.
Books & Plays:
Journeyman: An Autobiography by Ewan MacColl
Introduction by Peggy Seeger
2009 Edition published by Manchester University Press
The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook: Sixty Years of Songmaking
Compiled and Annotated by Peggy Seeger
Foreword by Pete Seeger
2009 Edition published by Camsco Music
Set Into Song: Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger and the Radio Ballads
By Peter Cox (2008). Although now out of print, all the information about this remarkable book is available from the Charles Parker Archive Trust on the above link, including all the text.
Legacies of Ewan MacColl – The Last Interview
Edited by Allan F. Moore, University of Surrey, UK and Giovanni Vacca
Foreword by Peggy Seeger
2014 published by Ashgate Books
Class Act: The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl
By Ben Harker
2007 Paperback published by Pluto Press
Ewan MacColl Plays: 1
Introduced by Robert Leach
2009 Paperback published by Methuen
