A TV series tie-in which gives an account of real-life drama within a GP super-practice, set in a picturesque Somerset town.

Doctor's Orders

Politics & Social Sciences

Slade, Paul

Hall, Christine

Politics & Government

BBC CONSUMER PUBLISHING

Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest â€˜orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate â€“ morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generationâ€™s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genreâ€™s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Leeâ€™s â€œbiographersâ€ alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including â€œKnoxville Girlâ€, â€œTom Dooleyâ€ and â€œFrankie &amp; Johnnyâ€, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seedsâ€™ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.

Unprepared To Die: America's Greatest Murder Ballads And The True Crime Stories That Inspired Them

Arts & Photography

Music

Soundcheck Books LLP

Forty years before Motown, there was Black Swan. Created by a young Black songwriter called Harry Pace, this pioneering 1920s blues label gave 14 million African-Americans the chance to hear their own authentic music on disc for the first time. Ethel Waters' Down Home Blues was the label's first big hit, its sales fuelled by a ground-breaking US tour which made headlines everywhere it touched down. Soon, the exciting new records Pace produced were pulling in white listeners as well as Black, and providing the essential soundtrack at every chic Hollywood party.\nBut there was danger too. In the Jim Crow South, Waters and her band were cheered to the echo on stage only to have racist insults spat at them in the street outside. In Georgia, the corpse of a young lynching victim was hurled into the lobby of a theatre Waters was just about to play. Pace had to battle a constant stream of dirty tricks from his white rivals, who were determined to sabotage Black Swan at every turn. This is the story of a truly remarkable record label - and of the even more remarkable man who founded it.\nThis expanded 2021 edition of the book, published to mark the 100th anniversary of Black Swan's launch, contains a wealth of new information and many fresh insights into both the label's own story and Harry Pace's determination to improve African-Americans' lives.

Black Swan Blues: The Hard Rise & Brutal Fall of America's First Black-owned Record Label (PlanetSlade)

PlanetSlade.com

Unprepared To Die: America's Greatest Murder Ballads & The True Crime Stories That Inspired Them (PlanetSlade)

Independently published

The Outcast Dead: Cross Bones Graveyard has sheltered the remains of London's most despised citizens for over 400 years. This is its story. (PlanetSlade)

History

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