Editing Charles Chilton (section)

==Legacy==

In January 2014, [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]] broadcast a selection of programmes to celebrate the life and work of Charles Chilton.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01p464s ''The Charles Chilton Collection'' – BBC Radio 4 Extra – January 2014]</ref> This included ''The Long, Long Trail'', telling the story of the [[First World War]] through the songs sung by soldiers, broadcast for the first time since its original transmission on the [[BBC Home Service]] in 1961.

On 4 January 2014, in conjunction with [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]], [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcast ''Archive on 4: The Long, Long Trail''.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nrn9m ''Archive on 4: The Long, Long Trail'' – BBC Radio 4 – 4 January 2014]</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jan/04/david-hepworth-radio-review |title=David Hepworth on the First World War centenary |newspaper=The Guardian |date=4 January 2014 |location= London}}</ref><ref>[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/english-and-drama/2014/01/fifty-years-after-its-first-productionand-marking-the-centenary-of-the-outbreak-of-the-first-world-war-oh-what-a-lovel.html '''The most influential radio programme ever'?'' – British Library English and Drama Blog – 6 January 2014]</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5f06454a-7871-11e3-a148-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2q61y3fHN |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210231212/https://www.ft.com/content/5f06454a-7871-11e3-a148-00144feabdc0#axzz2q61y3fHN |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |author=AN Wilson |title=The obvious lesson of the 1914–18 war is not one we'd expect many politicians to have learnt |newspaper=Financial Times |date=10 January 2014 |location=London |access-date=28 April 2014 }}</ref> [[Roy Hudd]] told the story of Chilton's ground-breaking 1961 musical documentary. Interviewees included satirist [[Ian Hislop]], Chilton's widow Penelope and their children Mary (born 1951) and David Chilton (born 1952) and the producer was [[Amber Barnfather]]. In a five-star review, the ''[[Financial Times]]'' said "Chilton ... merits this tribute – as does the British soldier's stoic humour that so movingly illumines the four-year hell."<ref>[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e35e5fac-a7b7-11dd-865e-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1 ''Radio choice'', Martin Hoyle, ''Financial Times'', 4 January/5 January 2014]</ref> ''Archive on 4: The Long, Long Trail'' won a Silver Radio Award in the New York Festivals International Radio Program Awards 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/radio/ |title=''New York Festivals World's Best Radio Programs'' |access-date=28 June 2014 |archive-date=24 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624084647/http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/radio/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>