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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 BBC 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 BBC Radio 4.
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Thu 27 Jun 201902:15
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