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Local Radio,5 mins

A song for Walter Tull

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Two folk singers have written a song about Britain's first black army Officer to command white troops. The MP David Lammy has called for him to be given Victoria Cross 100 years after his death.Folk singers Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar have written the song about him. In this interview they tell Nasser Hanif about how they came across him

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