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3. 'Mr Blue Sky' to 'Can't Help Falling In Love With You'

Episode 3 of 3

Cerys Matthews picks more favourites from the 25 series of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4's Soul Music - the show about the music that moves us.

Cerys Matthews delves further into the archives to put together 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.

In the last of three episodes, Cerys's chooses:

ELO: ‘Mr Blue Sky’
Sam Cooke: ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’
Bob Marley: ‘Redemption Song’
Julie Andrews: ‘Feed The Birds’
Communards: ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’
Elvis Presley: ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love With You’

Producer: Mair Bosworth.

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

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