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A stunning and beautifully produced 60 minute musical and speech memoir telling the story of the rise and decline of the steel industry in South Yorkshire. The Song of Steel tells of tough shifts alongside red-hot furnaces in noisy steelworks and the terrible accidents once common in an industry which dominated the lives of the people of Sheffield and Rotherham. Includes ten superb original songs inspired by personal testimony, and features poignant songs and anecdotes throughout. The 2006 Radio Ballads are self-narrating music documentaries about issues of our time, featuring interviews with rarely-heard communities and songs inspired directly by their stories. The series examined the emotions of communities involved in steel production, shipbuilding, Northern Ireland's Troubles, hunting with hounds, fairgrounds and people living with the HIV/AIDS virus. Gott. 2006.