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Soul Music Mixtapes

Cerys Matthews shares a specially curated mixtape of her favourite stories from across the 25 series of BBC Radio 4's Soul Music, the programme about the music that moves us.

Cerys Matthews delves into the archives to present a specially curated mixtape of her favourite stories from across 25 series of the BBC 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
* Sam Cooke's A Change is Gonna Come.

Producer: Mair Bosworth

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in January 2018.

* Listen out for archive series of Soul Music regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra

3 hours

Last on

Sat 29 May 202119:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Broadcasts

  • Sat 13 Jan 201809:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 13 Jan 201819:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 29 May 202109:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 29 May 202119:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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