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Jumoké Fashola on Nina Simone

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Radio 3 presenter Jumoké Fashola celebrates the singer-songwriter whose music and life story helped her to find her own voice, the American Nina Simone

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Thu 20 Jul 202322:45
BBC Radio 3

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