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Episodes from The Mike Harding Show broadcast in 2009

December
  1. Mike looks at the season's festive releases and some of the standout performances of 2009.
  2. Mike Harding introduces highlights from the final of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award.
  3. Features a full run-down of the nominations for the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
November
  1. Peggy Seeger discusses the life and work of her late husband Ewan MacColl.
  2. Mike Harding presents the very latest in folk, including an interview with Show of Hands.
  3. Mike presents the best in folk, roots and acoustic music and marks Remembrance Day.
  4. With highlights from a Radio 2 event at the Houses of Parliament honouring Ralph McTell.
October
  1. With the very best in folk music and an interview with Julie Fowlis.
  2. With the best in folk, roots and acoustic music, plus an interview with Tom Russell.
  3. Mike Harding presents the best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
  4. With the best in folk, roots and acoustic music, plus an interview with Dougie MacLean.
September
  1. Mike Harding presents an entire programme devoted to listeners' requests.
  2. Mike Harding chats to The Unthanks (formerly Rachel Unthank & The Winterset).
  3. With the best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
  4. Mike talks to English fiddle-singer Bella Hardy.
  5. With the best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
August
  1. Features an interview with guitarist and singer Sam Carter.
  2. With folk, roots and acoustic music. Includes an interview with Loudon Wainwright III.
  3. With the best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
  4. Mike Harding presents highlights from the 2009 Cambridge Folk Festival.
July
  1. Mike Harding's guest is singer, songwriter and guitarist Martin Simpson.
  2. Mike Harding presents an hour of listeners' requests for folk, roots and acoustic music.
  3. Singer, musician and actor Bernard Wrigley chats about his life, career and new album.
  4. Mike Harding presents an hour of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
  5. Mike interviews Chris Wood, who won two gongs at the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
June
  1. Featuring an interview with Ian Anderson, editor of the music magazine fRoots.
  2. Mike Harding presents an hour of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
  3. Featuring an interview with singer-songwriter Reg Meuross and tracks from his latest album
  4. Mike previews some of the summer's best folk festivals.
May
  1. Mike Harding presents listeners' requests for the best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
  2. Mike Harding chats with Anna Esslemont and Cormac Byrne of folk group Uiscedwr.
  3. Mike Harding chats to Bellowhead front man Jon Boden.
  4. Featuring a song from the new album by Scottish trio Lori Watson and Rule of Three.
April
  1. Mike is joined by Irish folk singer Christy Moore.
  2. The latest in folk, roots and acoustic based music.
  3. Folk musician Martin Carthy introduces tracks from Brass Monkey's Head of Steam album.
  4. Featuring some of the musicians involved in Shrewsbury Folk Festival's Darwin Song Project
  5. Including an interview with singer, songwriter and guitarist Clive Gregson.
March
  1. The best of folk, roots and acoustic music.
  2. Scottish folk trio Lau introduce tracks from their latest album.
  3. Mike Harding presents listeners' requests for the best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
  4. Mike Harding presents the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
February
  1. The folk world pays tribute to singer-songwriter and guitarist John Martyn.
  2. Mike Harding presents the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
  3. Mike Harding presents highlights from the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
January
  1. Irish singer Cara Dillon talks about tracks from her new album.
  2. Mike Harding presents his selection of the best in folk, roots and acoustic based music.
  3. Mike Harding presents listeners' requests for the best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
  4. Mike Harding has news of a UK tour by guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson.

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