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The songs that saved our lives

The immense power of music and song in shaping our lives and memories - plus Stephen Fry tells us what it was like to narrate the Harry Potter books and why spiders might be the kindest creatures we know.

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18 minutes

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Mon 4 Mar 202403:32GMT
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