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Radio 4,01 Aug 2015,30 mins

Hit Songs and Love Songs

Will Gompertz Gets Creative

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For the final programme in the series, the BBC Arts Editor drops in on songwriting group in the Midlands to see how easy it is to create a hit love song. Plenty try but few succeed - so joining him for a special masterclass are the Mercury and Brit nominated artists Kathryn Williams and Tom McRae who have both written songs with and for other artists - ranging from John Martyn and Marianne Faithful to Nadine Coyle and Matt Cardle. Can they help the members of the Coventry Singer Songwriting group create a hit of their own? If you are inspired to get involved in songwriting - or indeed any other areas of artistic endeavour - there's lots to discover at the BBC's Get Creative website http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/sections/get-creative Series produced by Clare Walker, Kate Lamble and Paul Kobrak.

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