Recorded LIVE at Manchester Jewish Museum on the 27th January, 2016.
Peter Brathwaite (baritone) and Nigel Foster (pianist).
James Symonds (video design), Graeme Mill (recording).
"Ballad of Paragraph 218" or "Abortion is Illegal" was the world's first song protesting laws against abortion. The words are by Bertolt Brecht and the music by Hanns Eisler.
After 1933, Eisler's music and Brecht's poetry were banned by the Nazi Party. Both artists went into exile.
