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Soul Music Mixtapes

Cerys Matthews shares a specially curated mixtape of her favourite stories from across the 25 series of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4's Soul Music, the programme about the music that moves us.

Cerys Matthews delves into the archives to present a specially curated mixtape of her favourite stories from across 25 series of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4's Soul Music.

Each episode of Soul Music takes a different piece of music – it might be a pop song, or a hymn, or a piece of classical music or world music – and looks at why it moves us and what it means to different people.

Cerys's choices include:

* Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, Mozart's Requiem in D Minor
* Bob Marley's Redemption Song, Puccini's La Boheme
* Sam Cooke's A Change is Gonna Come.

Producer: Mair Bosworth

Made for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in January 2018.

* Listen out for archive series of Soul Music regularly broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra

3 hours

Last on

Sat 29 May 2021 19:00

Broadcasts

  • Sat 13 Jan 2018 09:00
  • Sat 13 Jan 2018 19:00
  • Sat 29 May 2021 09:00
  • Sat 29 May 2021 19:00

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