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		<title>Tressell And Me Radio Ballad On Preston FM</title>
		<link>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2012/01/tressell-and-me-radio-ballad-on-preston-fm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alunparry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My radio ballad Tressell And Me is being broadcast on Preston FM this Friday (6 Jan). It will feature in the popular 7pm show Best Kept Secrets presented by Paul and Lucy Breeze. You can hear Preston FM on 103.2FM in the Preston area or worldwide over the internet by going to http://www.preston.fm/ and clicking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tressell And Me &#8211; A Radio Ballad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have produced a radio ballad exploring the socialist ideas within the book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. I hope that you enjoy it, that you share it, and that it helps spread socialist ideas in a way that is easy to understand. I would love for it to become a well used resource within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singing At Liverpool Bloody Tuesday Commemoration</title>
		<link>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2011/08/singing-at-liverpool-bloody-tuesda-commemoration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alunparry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday (August 15th) I&#8217;ll be singing as part of the Liverpool Bloody Tuesday Commemoration. This is the 100th anniversary of the day that two unarmed Liverpool men were shot dead by soldiers on Vauxhall Road during the 1911 Transport Strike. The soldiers had been sent onto the streets to help put down the strike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling All Kopites: Help Needed</title>
		<link>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2011/05/calling-all-kopites-help-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 10:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alunparry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one is off topic in terms of music, but I&#8217;m involved in a social history project surrounding Liverpool Football Club. I&#8217;m wanting your photos (and vids if you have them) that relate to supporting Liverpool Football Club in the 1960s. You can upload any pictures and files by clicking the link here and using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen To My &#8216;Dirty Thirty&#8217; BBC Interview</title>
		<link>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2011/03/listen-to-my-dirty-thirty-bbc-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alunparry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you missed my interview yesterday morning regarding the struggle of the Dirty Thirty during the Miners Strike you can click the link below to listen in to myself and author David Bell whose book inspired my song. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00f2ssy/Ben_Jackson_07_03_2011/ Just slide along to 1hr 23mins and 38secs (or thereabouts!) and you can hear the interviews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Radio Leicester on Monday</title>
		<link>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2011/03/bbc-radio-leicester-on-monday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alunparry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those in the Leicestershire area will be able to listen in to the Breakfast Show on Radio Leicester on Mon (7 March) to hear me chatting about my new song The Dirty Thirty. I&#8217;ll be on at around 8.20am and will be joined by David Bell, the author of the book The Dirty Thirty: Heroes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Song: The Dirty Thirty</title>
		<link>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2011/02/new-song-the-dirty-thirty/</link>
		<comments>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2011/02/new-song-the-dirty-thirty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alunparry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Miner&#8217;s Strike of 84/85, the Leicestershire coalfields continued to work, with two and a half thousand miners working through the strike. Despite this, thirty or so miners refused to break the strike, despite being so isolated in their local area. This song tells their story. I am deeply indebted to author David Bell. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liverpool Remembers</title>
		<link>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2011/01/liverpool-remembers/</link>
		<comments>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2011/01/liverpool-remembers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alunparry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to confirm that I will be playing at this years Liverpool Remembers event on Sunday 23rd January 2011. Liverpool Remembers is an afternoon commemorating the Holocaust with contributions from members of the Jewish community. It is also a chance to reflect upon other human rights tragedies and genocides affecting people across the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working Class Life &amp; Music Festival: Newsflash</title>
		<link>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2010/10/working-class-life-music-festival-newsflash/</link>
		<comments>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2010/10/working-class-life-music-festival-newsflash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alunparry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll be pleased to know that the Working Class Life &#038; Music Festival will be taking place next year bigger and better than ever. Now a city-wide event with the city&#8217;s leading arts and cultural organisations lining up in support, it will be a unique celebration of the lives and experiences of everyday people spanning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish Civil War Heroes In Liverpool</title>
		<link>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2010/10/spanish-civil-war-heroes-in-liverpool/</link>
		<comments>http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/2010/10/spanish-civil-war-heroes-in-liverpool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alunparry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m excited to inform everyone that the International Brigades National Association is holding it&#8217;s AGM in Liverpool this weekend. There are two important events to take part in. The first is a plaque unveiling in the afternoon. The second is a social event in the evening where I&#8217;ll be playing as part of the band [...]]]></description>
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