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From Wikipedia: In 1932 the British intelligence service, MI5, opened a file on MacColl, after local police asserted that he was "a communist with very extreme views" who needed "special attention".[14] For a time the Special Branch kept a watch on the Manchester home that he shared with his first wife, Joan Littlewood. MI5 caused some of MacColl's songs to be rejected by the BBC, and prevented the employment of Littlewood as a BBC children's programme presenter (see: "Christmas tree" files).[15]
M's songs include "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face
Source Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_MacColl
See also Indy for story about Ewan Macoll and Joan Littlewood. I may need to pay the bloody pay wall.
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