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The Unthanks

The Unthanks is a group from the UK, active since 2009.

Group GB since 2009 indie folk folk english folk music

TOTAL PLAYS

386

SONGS PLAYED

127

STATIONS

FIRST PLAYED

2009-09-17 06:22 · 6 Music — "Because He Was A Bonny Lad"

LAST PLAYED

1 month ago · Radio 2 — "Mount The Air (BBC Proms 2026) (feat. Royal Northern Sinfonia & Ellie Slorach)"

BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2009 — 2026

100 75 50 25 0

'09 '12 '15 '18 '21 '24

◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 298 77%

Radio 2 88 23%

Radio 1 0 0%

1Xtra 0 0%

◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 21:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT

#TITLEPLAYSLAST

1 Flutter 62 2024-01-17

2 Mount The Air 24 2024-05-22

3 2000 Miles 14 2025-12-20

4 Last 14 2021-05-24

5 Magpie 12 2025-10-23

6 The Old News 12 2025-10-22

7 Tar Barrel In Dale 12 2022-12-18

8 The Testimony Of Patience Kershaw 10 2024-03-10

9 Lucky Gilchrist 9 2021-07-23

10 The Bay of Fundy 7 2026-07-29

11 Madam 6 2026-01-28

12 The King Of Rome 6 2022-07-01

◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-12 20:30 Mount The Air (BBC Proms 2026) (feat. Royal Northern Sinfonia & Ellie Slorach) Radio 2

2026-07-29 20:33 The Bay of Fundy Radio 2

2026-01-28 21:24 Madam Radio 2

2025-12-24 22:09 Coventry Carol 6 Music

2025-12-20 04:50 2000 Miles 6 Music

2025-12-14 21:02 Coventry Carol 6 Music

2025-12-14 09:13 Carol Of The Birds (6 Music Session, 15 December 2024) 6 Music

2025-12-07 04:50 2000 Miles 6 Music

2025-10-23 11:07 Magpie 6 Music

2025-10-22 20:31 The Old News Radio 2

2025-08-21 11:08 What Can A Song Do To You? 6 Music

2025-05-30 15:56 Bread and Roses 6 Music

◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

127 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z

BAR ▶

2000 Miles —

14 2025-12-20 ▶

A Dream For You —

1 2023-01-18 ▶

A Dream For You (Radio 2's 21st Century Folk 2023) —

1 2024-07-17 ▶

A Dream For You (Radio 2's 21st Century Folk) —

4 2023-01-15 ▶

A Dream For You (Radio 2's 21st Century Folk, 2023) —

1 2023-01-15 ▶

A Great Northern River —

5 2023-09-10 ▶

A Great Northern River - 6 Music Session 281012 —

1 2015-04-04 ▶

A Whistling Woman —

1 2019-03-27 ▶

Because He Was A Bonny Lad —

2 2009-12-29 ▶

Because He Was A Bonny Lad —

2 2020-02-16 ▶

Big Steamers —

1 2012-10-23 ▶

Bird In the Blue —

1 2017-05-31 ▶

Bird In The Blue (6 Music Session, 3rd May 2017) —

1 2017-05-03 ▶

Black Trade —

2 2018-02-18 ▶

Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk —

1 2012-07-28 ▶

Bread and Roses —

1 2025-05-30 ▶

Breakfast —

1 2018-11-20 ▶

Cannily, Cannily —

1 2015-10-12 ▶

Carol of the Beasts —

3 2024-12-21 ▶

Carol Of The Birds (6 Music Session, 15 December 2024) —

3 2025-12-14 ▶

Caught In A Storm - 6 Music Day - 05/06/15 —

1 2015-12-28 ▶

Close The Coalhouse Door —

1 2011-03-15 ▶

Coventry Carol —

4 2025-12-24 ▶

Dear Companions —

1 2024-11-20 ▶

Deep Deep Down In The Slient Grave —

2 2019-01-15 ▶

Died For Love —

3 2017-07-21 ▶

Do You Ever Remember —

1 2017-11-14 ▶

Do You Ever Remember? —

1 2017-12-08 ▶

Dream Your Dreams —

2 2017-07-26 ▶

Fareweel Regality —

2 2016-07-06 ▶

Farewell Regality —

1 2013-01-29 ▶

Flutter —

62 2024-01-17 ▶

For Dad —

2 2015-03-01 ▶

Foundling —

1 2015-01-25 ▶

Free Will And Testament —

1 2011-12-19 ▶

Gan To The Kye —

1 2011-03-24 ▶

George —

1 2017-04-22 ▶

Great Northern River —

1 2012-10-25 ▶

Hawthorn —

1 2015-02-12 ▶

Hawthorn (BBC Radio 2 Session Version) —

1 2015-07-22 ▶

Here's The Tender Coming —

2 2015-02-16 ▶

Here’s The Tender Coming —

2 2023-01-15 ▶

High Waving Heather —

4 2019-10-29 ▶

How Wild the Wind Blows —

4 2017-12-01 ▶

Last —

14 2021-05-24 ▶

Last (6 Music Session, 29 Mar 2011) —

3 2018-03-29 ▶

Last (Radio Edit) —

5 2022-01-27 ▶

Last - 6 Music session 29/03/2011 —

1 2013-03-19 ▶

Last Lullaby —

1 2015-02-12 ▶

Lines —

1 2019-07-03 ▶

Little Weaver Bird —

1 2017-05-31 ▶

Living By The Water (6 Music Session, 08 Spet 2009) —

3 2022-03-01 ▶

Living By The Water - BBC Session 08/09/2009 —

2 2012-02-14 ▶

Lucky Gilchrist —

9 2021-07-23 ▶

Lullaby For Hamza —

1 2014-09-24 ▶

Madam —

6 2026-01-28 ▶

Magpie —

12 2025-10-23 ▶

Magpie (6 Music Session, 19 Dec 2014) —

1 2014-12-19 ▶

Mount The Air —

24 2024-05-22 ▶

Mount The Air (BBC Proms 2026) (feat. Royal Northern Sinfonia & Ellie Slorach) —

1 2026-08-12 ▶

Mount The Air (Live at the 2016 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards) —

1 2016-05-11 ▶

Mount The Air (Live at the 2017 Folk Awards) —

1 2017-02-22 ▶

Mount the Air (Live at the Radio 2 Folk Awards) —

1 2016-04-28 ▶

Mount The Air (R2 Folk Awards 2016) —

1 2016-05-05 ▶

Mount The Air (Single Version) —

1 2015-01-18 ▶

My Singing Bird —

1 2022-10-03 ▶

Nobody Knew She Was There —

4 2022-05-25 ▶

O Tannenbaum —

2 2024-12-18 ▶

Oak, Ash and Thorn —

1 2020-06-24 ▶

On a Monday Morning (live from TFF Rudolstadt, Germany 2009) —

1 2016-01-13 ▶

One by One —

1 2020-03-18 ▶

One December Morn —

1 2014-11-05 ▶

Only Remembered —

2 2017-07-30 ▶

Paitence Kershaw (6 Music Session, 08 Spet 2009) —

1 2018-09-02 ▶

Paitence Kershaw - BBC Session 08/09/2009 —

1 2015-03-29 ▶

Poor Mum (Live) —

1 2020-03-18 ▶

Queen of Hearts —

3 2015-05-03 ▶

Queen Of Hearts (6 Music Session, 29 Mar 2011) —

4 2021-09-23 ▶

River River (6 Music Session, 15 December 2024) —

1 2024-12-15 ▶

Roland & Vera (feat. Sam Lee) —

1 2018-11-07 ▶

Sad February —

4 2021-02-09 ▶

Sandgate Dandling Song —

1 2022-09-21 ▶

Sea Song —

4 2012-02-08 ▶

Sexy Sadie —

1 2014-12-25 ▶

Shipbuilding —

1 2012-10-25 ▶

Shipbuilding (6 Music Session, 28 Oct 2012) —

1 2017-04-02 ▶

Shipbuilding - 6Music Session 281012 —

2 2015-02-15 ▶

Socks —

1 2018-11-15 ▶

Something In The Way (Teen Spirit: Nevermind At 30) —

1 2021-09-25 ▶

Song Title (6 Music Session, D Mon YYYY) —

1 2016-04-27 ▶

Starless —

1 2012-05-11 ▶

Starless And Bible Black (6 Music Session, 29 Mar 2011) —

2 2018-03-29 ▶

Taking On Men —

3 2021-08-18 ▶

Tar Barrel In Dale —

12 2022-12-18 ▶

Tar Barrel in Dale (6 Music Session, 15 December 2024) —

2 2024-12-17 ▶

Tar Barrel In Dale (6 Music Session, 19 Dec 2014) —

1 2014-12-19 ▶

Tar Barrel In Dale (Live from Radmac's Christmas Grotto) —

2 2015-12-17 ▶

Tar Barrel In Dale - Radcliffe and Maconie session 08.12.18 —

1 2018-12-21 ▶

The Bay of Fundy —

7 2026-07-29 ▶

The Bee-Boy's Song (Live) —

2 2021-08-22 ▶

The Cherry Tree Carol (6 Music Session, 15 December 2024) —

1 2024-12-15 ▶

The First Day (6 Music Session, 3rd May 2017) —

1 2017-05-03 ▶

The Gallowgate Lad —

1 2021-02-10 ▶

The Happiness Or Otherwise Of Society (Jack Elliott)/The Father's Song —

1 2021-06-19 ▶

The Isabella Colliery Coke Ovens —

1 2023-11-29 ▶

The King Of Rome —

6 2022-07-01 ▶

The King Of Rome. —

2 2014-02-17 ▶

The Magical Organ (I wish) —

1 2021-12-22 ▶

The Month of January (Uncle Rat) —

1 2024-01-03 ▶

The Old News —

12 2025-10-22 ▶

The Parsonage —

1 2019-02-10 ▶

The Road to the Stars —

1 2017-04-26 ▶

The Romantic Tees —

2 2015-04-12 ▶

The Royal Blackbird —

4 2023-06-22 ▶

The Scarecrow Knows —

3 2023-10-15 ▶

The Sea Is a Woman —

3 2019-10-21 ▶

The Testimony Of Patience Kershaw —

10 2024-03-10 ▶

The Testimony of Patience Kershaw (Glastonbury 2015) —

1 2015-06-29 ▶

Trimdon Grange Explosion —

1 2012-09-12 ▶

Trimdon Grange Explosion / The Happiness Or Otherwise Of Society —

1 2012-09-09 ▶

Waiting —

1 2015-05-02 ▶

Waters of Tyne —

3 2025-04-23 ▶

What Can A Song Do For You —

1 2017-07-21 ▶

What Can A Song Do For You? —

5 2017-05-12 ▶

What Can A Song Do To You —

4 2017-10-08 ▶

What Can A Song Do To You? —

3 2025-08-21 ▶

What Can a Song Do To You? (feat. Gabrielle Drake) —

1 2017-07-26 ▶