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Radio 3,20 Sep 2021,14 mins

SeriesThe Songs That Shaped Me

Joni Mitchell and Change

The Essay

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Indian author, musician and international public intellectual Amit Chaudhuri presents a set of personal essays on the music and the songwriters that shaped his early life. In this first episode, a Joni Mitchell lyric, one of whose lines is 'Nothing lasts for long', resonates through Amit Chaudhuri's growing-up. An Art and Adventure production. Producer: Roger James Elsgood

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