The Ballad Of Johnny Longstaff [Drama On 3]

Award-winning north east folk band The Young'uns - Sean Cooney and David Eagle with Jack Rutter (for Michael Hughes) present their production of The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff, recorded in front of a live audience in their hometown of Stockton-on-Tees. It's the true story of one man's journey from unemployment, through the Hunger Marches of the 1930s, the mass trespass movement and the Battle of Cable Street, to fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War. A touching and often hilarious musical adventure, its themes of war, hunger, poverty and displacement have a powerful resonance almost a hundred years on.

Producer: Elizabeth Foster

Folk band The Young'uns production of the life of Johnny Longstaff, recorded in Stockton.

Award-winning folk band The Young'uns' production of the true story of Johnny Longstaff. From the hunger marches of the 1930s to the Spanish Civil War. Recorded live in Stockton.