Jake Glanville has collected songs for over 80 years. In the '60s he attended the Singers’ Club run by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, and was charged with writing a protest song about the Vietnam war. Later, he composed songs in support of the Miners’ Strike of 1984–5.

Activist, song collector, and multi award-winning artist Sam Lee chats Cop27, what's wrong with the folk tradition – and the radical potential of nightingales.

Storied guitarist, collaborator, and writer Dave Randall talks about songwriting, touring, and the political power of music.

We talk to songwriter and activist Kimwei about drumming with Extinction Rebellion, strategy and tactics, and the importance of simplicity in participatory protest music.

In which John has a pre-gig chat with Jay McAllister aka Beans On Toast about his craft, how he got into music and politics, and the importance of optimism.

Ren Aldridge of feminist punks Petrol Girls calls in from Austria to talk protest, bodies, art . . . and quilting?

Our latest guest is Mike Jones – songwriter, scholar, and founding member of '80s protest pop outfit Latin Quarter.

Oskar interviews pacifist campaigner and songwriter Sue Gilmurray about her life, work, and 'The War Machine Rolls Round'.

In something of a departure for OSV, Alan (abetted by John) interviews Neil Lanham – singer, songwriter, collector, and creator of OralTraditions.co.uk

Alice Nutter and Boff Whalley of Chumbawamba chat politics, process, positivity – and, of course, English Rebel Songs

OSV and Maggie Holland discuss her award-winning song 'A Place Called England', her wider work, influences, and an encounter with Christopher Hill

OSV and Professor Simon Frith chew over the theory of protest song in rhetoric and performance.

John Street talks protest song with Peggy Seeger, ranging across her long and storied career, the art of songwriting, her current activism, and her unsuspected love of Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.

OSV meet up with Billy Bragg for deep dives into key songs, the political potential of live music, the songwriting process ... and a world-beating pun.

Oskar Cox Jensen talks to Dr Alison Morgan about Shelley, the Peterloo Massacre, Chartist poet John Stafford, and the curious history of ‘God Save the King’.