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Radio 6 Music,4 mins

WAST Nightingales Choir: Singing As Expression, Unity And Escape

Mary Anne Hobbs

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Members of the WAST Nightingales choir, a group comprised of female asylum seekers, on singing as a form of expression, unity and escape. The Greater Manchester-based group, who won the Liberty Human Rights Arts Award last year, aim to alter the public's perceptions of asylum seekers in Britain in their performances.

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