Sara Parker is an award-winning independent producer, mainly for BBC Radio. Her montage style gives voice to individuals and communities, often covering hard-edged social issues from prostitution and pornography to teenage violence and suicide. Daughter of pioneering producer Charles Parker, one of her recent programmes explores the making of the Radio Ballads - a 1950s series produced by her father with folksinger/songwriters Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger,which revolutionized British radio feature-making.
Like Blackpool Went Through Rock: The Story of the Radio Ballads
By Sara Parker
Fifty years ago, folksingers Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger collaborated with BBC Radio producer Charles Parker to create an amazing body of work - the Radio Ballads. (more)
Like Blackpool Went Through Rock
By Sara Parker
In the late 1950s, folk musicians Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and BBC radio producer Charles Parker joined forces on a radio endeavor unlike anything the BBC (or the world, for that matter) had heard before. (more)
