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Shirley Collins

Shirley Collins is a person from the UK, active since 1935.

Person GB since 1935 folk
TOTAL PLAYS
135
SONGS PLAYED
63
STATIONS
2
FIRST PLAYED
2008-08-02 02:05 · 6 Music — "Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime"
LAST PLAYED
5 months ago · 6 Music — "Blackbirds and Thrushes"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2008 — 2025
30 23 15 8 0
'08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 103 76%
Radio 2 32 24%
Radio 1 0 0%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 20:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Wondrous Love 15 2022-01-19
2 Barbara Allen 12 2024-10-24
3 My Sailor Boy 7 2021-12-05
4 Space Girl 5 2025-07-13
5 Locked In Ice 4 2020-11-06
6 Newcastle 4 2019-07-29
7 Barbara Allen (Child 84, Roud 54) 3 2024-07-24
8 Hares On The Mountain 3 2023-06-28
9 High and Away 3 2023-04-26
10 Sweet Greens and Blues 3 2022-12-18
11 Sur le Borde de l'Eau 3 2019-01-21
12 Pretty Polly 3 2018-06-21
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2025-12-14 22:46 Blackbirds and Thrushes 6 Music
2025-12-14 22:45 Crowlink 6 Music
2025-11-02 22:38 One Night As I Lay On My Bed 6 Music
2025-07-13 19:20 Space Girl 6 Music
2025-07-09 20:20 Hares on the Mountain (Fast Version) Radio 2
2025-07-06 21:26 Blackbirds and Thrushes 6 Music
2025-07-06 20:59 One Night as I Lay in My Bed 6 Music
2025-06-12 21:12 June Apple 6 Music
2025-05-04 21:00 The Queen of May 6 Music
2025-05-04 18:40 Space Girl 6 Music
2025-04-23 20:19 Cambridgeshire May Carol Radio 2
2025-03-20 00:10 Dabbling In The Dew 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

63 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Adieu to Old England — 1 ▶
All Things Are Quite Silent — 2 ▶
Archangel Hill — 2 ▶
At Break of Day — 2 ▶
Awake Awake (Clip) — 1 ▶
Bad Girl — 1 ▶
Barbara Allen — 12 ▶
Barbara Allen (Child 84, Roud 54) — 3 ▶
Blackbirds and Thrushes — 2 ▶
Cambridgeshire May Carol — 1 ▶
Crowlink — 1 ▶
Cruel Lincoln — 2 ▶
Dabbling In The Dew — 1 ▶
Death and The Lady — 1 ▶
Died for Love — 2 ▶
Down in Yon Forest — 1 ▶
False True Love — 1 ▶
Go From My Window — 1 ▶
Hares On The Mountain — 3 ▶
Hares on the Mountain (Fast Version) — 1 ▶
High and Away — 3 ▶
I Drew My Ship — 2 ▶
June Apple — 2 ▶
Lancashire Lass — 1 ▶
Locked In Ice — 4 ▶
Locks and Bolts — 1 ▶
My Sailor Boy — 7 ▶
Newcastle — 4 ▶
Old Johnny Buckle — 3 ▶
One Night as I Lay in My Bed — 1 ▶
One Night As I Lay On My Bed — 1 ▶
Poor Old Horse — 2 ▶
Pretty Polly — 3 ▶
Rolling in the Dew — 1 ▶
Seven Yellow Gypsies — 2 ▶
She Moves Through the Fair — 1 ▶
Space Girl — 5 ▶
Sur le Borde de l'Eau — 3 ▶
Sweet England — 1 ▶
Sweet Greens and Blues — 3 ▶
Tell Me True — 1 ▶
The Banks of Green Willow — 2 ▶
The Bonny Cuckoo — 1 ▶
The Bonny Labouring Boy — 1 ▶
The Christmas Song — 1 ▶
The Cruel Mother — 1 ▶
The Cuckoo — 1 ▶
The Foggy Dew — 2 ▶
The Irish Girl — 1 ▶
The Maydens Came — 1 ▶
The Queen of May — 1 ▶
The Rich Irish Lady / Jeff Sturgeon — 2 ▶
The Rose and the Briar — 1 ▶
The Silver Swan — 2 ▶
The Silver Swan (Clip) — 1 ▶
The Tailor And The Mouse — 2 ▶
The White Hare — 1 ▶
Washed Ashore — 2 ▶
Washed Ashore (BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017) — 1 ▶
Washed Ashore (Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017) — 1 ▶
Whitsun Dance — 2 ▶
Wondrous Love — 15 ▶
Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime — 1 ▶