Ewan MacColl: Radio, television and oral history
Jimmy Miller was first given radio work at BBC Manchester in the early 1930s. Later he began submitting scripts and began to participate in production work.
In 1957 he and Peggy Seeger joined with Charles Parker to produce the first Radio Ballads.
From 1954 Ewan was also contributing music and songs to televsion programmes. Here is a list of radio and television work from his first engagement as a voice actor in 1933 up to a memorial programme made in 1990.
Oral History
Inspired by Alan Lomax and solo, or accompanied by Joan Littlewood, A.L.Lloyd or Peggy Seeger, Ewan collected songs and in the process took in the life stories of the old singers and their friends.
In 1972 at the suggestion of Charles Parker Ewan and Peggy met Ben Bright, a retired seaman who lived in Edmonton in North London. From his reminiscences they produced Shellback.