June Tabor
In 1983 June Tabor sang the title song for the BBC TV series "Spyship". In 1997 she was on Ken Russell's TV show, "In Search of English Folk Song"  shown on Channel 4. Tim Winton, author of the 2001 novel Dirt Music, made a selection of music to go with his novel. The CD Dirt Music (2001) includes "He Fades Away" by June Tabor, a sad song about the death of a miner. The song was on her 1994 CD Against the Streams. In 2002, at the  "Passchendale Peace Concert"  in Flanders, Tabor shared the stage with Coope Boyes and Simpson. On 30th June 2006 BBC Radio 3 broadcast "Night Waves" to remember the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. It was broadcast live, with World War I songs sung by June Tabor.