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Music While You Shop, Music While You Work
Episode 28 of 30
David Hendy explores how music has been used to soothe us, cheer us, and make us productive over the past 100 years.
Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers how music has been used to soothe us, cheer us, and make us productive over the past 100 years.
Featuring extremely rare recordings of wartime episodes of the much-loved 麻豆社 series, Music While You Work.
30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.
Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson.
Producer: Matt Thompson
A Rockethouse production for 麻豆社 Radio 4.
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Thu 27 Jun 2019
02:15
麻豆社 Radio 4 Extra
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British Library curator Dr Janet Topp Fargion previews the final week of the Noise series.
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Wed 24 Apr 2013 13:45麻豆社 Radio 4- Wed 25 Nov 2015 14:15麻豆社 Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 26 Nov 2015 02:15麻豆社 Radio 4 Extra
- Wed 26 Jun 2019 14:15麻豆社 Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 27 Jun 2019 02:15麻豆社 Radio 4 Extra
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