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Richard Stilgoe and Alina Bzhezhinska start a new playlist

Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye with the opening episode of the most recent series with studio guests - songwriter and lyricist Richard Stilgoe and harpist Alina Bzhezhinska.

This week, Radio 4 is revisiting four episodes of the most recent series of Add to Playlist, which has recently won two major awards: the Prix Italia for Best International Radio Music show, and the Prix Europa for the Best European one.

The episodes were first broadcast in October, and today, songwriter, lyricist and musician Richard Stilgoe and Ukrainian-born harpist Alina Bzhezhinska join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye create the playlist of five tracks for the first episode.

With each track being chosen for its musical connections to the previous one, this week re-working earlier material emerges as a theme as we head from the Wild West to a Gestapo prison cell.

Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye
Producer Jerome Weatherald

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly by Ennio Morricone
Love Me Tender by Elvis Presley
Don't Tell Me by Madonna
First movement of Symphony No. 3 by Henryk G贸recki, sung by Dawn Upshaw with the London Sinfonietta
Afro Blue by Melanie De Biasio

Other music in this episode:

Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf
Pastures of Plenty by Woody Guthrie
Pastures of Plenty by Peter Tevis
Aura Lee by Slim Whitman
Stop by Joe Henry
Second movement of Symphony No. 3 by Henryk G贸recki
Afro Blue by Mongo Santamaria
Afro Blue by John Coltrane

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42 minutes

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  • Fri 7 Oct 2022 19:15
  • Boxing Day 2022 19:15

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