and Wales. His third book was A Country Christmas, a collections of prose, poetry, carols, songs and folklore. Coppin's BBC Radio Gloucestershire show, Folk Roots, was the fifth most listened to BBC Local Radio programme broadcast through the internet, with over 5,000 people listening per week. In 2008, he was elected as Honorary President of Glosfolk, the organisation that promotes traditional music in the county, for his services to folk music over many years. Albums Decameron Say Hello to the Band (1973) Mammoth Special (1974) Third Light (1975) Tomorrow's Pantomime (1976) Afterwords (2001) Solo Roll On Dreamer (1978) No Going Back (1979) Get Lucky (1982) Forest and Vale and High Blue Hill (1983) Line of Blue (1985) English Morning (1987) Edge of Day with Laurie Lee (1989) The Glorious Glosters (1990) Songs on Lonely Roads (1990) Songs and Carols for a West Country Christmas (1991) Force of the River (1993) The Gloucestershire Collection (1994) A Country Christmas (1995) The Shakespeare Songs (1997) A Journey – compilation (2001) Keep the Flame EP with Paul Burgess and Mick Dolan (2004) The Winding Stair (2005) Breaking the Silence with Mike Silver (2007) Borderland (2014) All on a Winter's Night (2017) 30 Songs – 2 CD compilation (2019) Midwinter – live album (2020) River of Dreams (2022) Singles The Magnificent Mercury Brothers "The New Girl in School" / "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" / "What About Us?" (1975) Solo "Believe in You" b/w "Run to Her" (1980) "We Shall Not Pass" (1980) "Everybody Knows" (1982) "Keep the Flame" (digital download, 2011) Books Forest and Vale and High Blue Hill (1991) Between the Severn and the Wye (1993) A Country Christmas (1997) Festival Players Productions Coppin was musical director and wrote the songs and music for these summer touring productions Merry Wives of Windsor (1992) Much Ado About Nothing (1994) A Winter's Tale (1995) The Merchant of Venice (1996) As You Like It (1997) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1998) Romeo and Juliet (2002) Comedy of Errors (2003) Twelfth Night (2004) A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005) Hamlet (2006) As You Like It (2007) Much Ado About Nothing (2008) The Merchant of Venice (2009) The Taming of the Shrew (2011) Twelfth Night (2012) Romeo and Juliet (2013) A Midsummer Night's Dream (2013) A Comedy of Errors (2014) Macbeth (2014) As You Like It (2015) Hamlet (2016) The Merry Wives of Windsor (2017) The Winter's Tale (2018)