Soul Music Episodes Available now
Don't Leave Me This Way—Series 16
4/5 Exploration of the disco anthem of yearning, pain and loss.
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace—Series 16
3/5 Exploring the hymn that inspires campaigners, charity workers and reformed alcoholics.
Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar—Series 16
2/5 How Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez for classical guitar touches people's lives.
Lili Marlene—Series 16
1/5 The impact of wartime favourite 'Lili Marlene', made famous by Marlene Dietrich.
Shipbuilding—Series 15
5/5 The Robert Wyatt song from 1982, written by Elvis Costello and Clive Langer.
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater—Series 15
4/5 The Stabat Mater hymn imagines the sufferings of the Virgin Mary at the foot of the cross.
She Moved Through The Fair—Series 15
3/5 Sin茅ad O'Connor & others talk about the haunting beauty of this ancient song. From 2013.
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony—Series 15
2/5 More than just 'da da da dum', how Beethoven's famous symphony touched people's lives.
Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is?—Series 15
1/5 The impact of the song written by Leiber and Stoller, inspired by the writer Thomas Mann.
Bach's St Matthew Passion—Series 14
5/5 An exploration of how Bach's St Matthew Passion touches and changes people's lives.