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Radio 4,5 mins

“I play for my dead friends”

Soul Music

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Veteran BBC foreign correspondent Malcolm Brabant recalls the 'cellist of Sarajevo', Vedran Smailovic, who played Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor everyday during the siege of Sarajevo amidst the wreckage of the beautiful city, as Serbian gunfire raged around.

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