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Cerys Matthews' Soul Music Mixtape - Part One

Cerys Matthews delves into the archives to put together a specially curated mixtape of her favourite stories from across 25 series of the 麻豆社 Radio 4's Soul Music.

Cerys Matthews delves into the archives to put together a specially curated mixtape of her favourite stories from across 25 series of the 麻豆社 Radio 4's Soul Music.

Each episode of Soul Music takes a different piece of music - it might be a pop song, or a hymn, or a piece of classical music or world music - and looks at why it moves us and what it means to different people. Cerys's choices include Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, Bob Marley's Redemption Song, Puccini's La Boheme and Sam Cooke's A Change is Gonna Come.

Producer: Mair Bosworth.

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