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Introducing Legend: The Joni Mitchell Story BBC Radio 4
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Introducing Legend: The Joni Mitchell Story

Joni Mitchell’s songs have soundtracked our lives and her pioneering work changed music forever....

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Songs My Mother Taught Me BBC Radio 4
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Songs My Mother Taught Me

Antonin Dvorak wrote his Gypsy Songs in 1880. He was passionate about the folk music of his...

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Fire and Rain BBC Radio 4
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Fire and Rain

James Taylor's song of suicide, loneliness and addiction somehow remains hopeful and uplifting,...

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Pata Pata BBC Radio 4
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Pata Pata

Miriam Makeba recorded 'Pata Pata' in 1967 with the help of American producer Jerry Ragovoy. It...

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Defying Gravity from Wicked BBC Radio 4
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Defying Gravity from Wicked

Wicked the musical is 20 years old in 2023. The story of the Wizard of Oz told from the witches'...

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I Will Always Love You BBC Radio 4
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I Will Always Love You

Written by Dolly Parton... sent stratospheric by Whitney Houston; I Will Always Love You is a...

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Fast Car BBC Radio 4
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Fast Car

'Fast Car' is one of Tracy Chapman's biggest hits, with listeners from around the world finding...

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I Say a Little Prayer for You BBC Radio 4
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I Say a Little Prayer for You

When Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David wrote I Say A Little Prayer For You in 1967 the war in...

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Ghost Town BBC Radio 4
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Ghost Town

'Ghost Town' was recorded by British two-tone band The Specials as a comment on urban decay and...

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I Only Have Eyes For You BBC Radio 4
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I Only Have Eyes For You

When I Only Have Eyes For You first emerged in 1934 it was a jaunty ditty written by Harry Dubin...

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Dancing in the Dark BBC Radio 4
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Dancing in the Dark

"Dancing in the Dark was written under duress!" Bruce Springsteen tells us. "I had no interest,...

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I Believe in Father Christmas BBC Radio 4
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I Believe in Father Christmas

I Believe In Father Christmas is neither although lyricist Peter Sinfield concedes it does...

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Nessun Dorma BBC Radio 4
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Nessun Dorma

'None shall sleep'. Jon Christos watched the Italia 90 World Cup with his Dad and says that the...

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Killing Me Softly with His Song BBC Radio 4
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Killing Me Softly with His Song

"Strumming my pain with his fingers... Singing my life with his words..." Killing Me Softly...

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Into My Arms by Nick Cave BBC Radio 4
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Into My Arms by Nick Cave

"I don't believe in an interventionist God" has to be one of the most original opening lines to a...

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Chervona Kalyna BBC Radio 4
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Chervona Kalyna

Powerful stories linked to this beautiful and stirring Ukrainian folk song which inspired Pink...

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Bruch's Violin Concerto BBC Radio 4
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Bruch's Violin Concerto

A Violin Concerto in G minor, Opus 26, became the best-known work of the German composer Max...

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Ne Me Quitte Pas BBC Radio 4
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Ne Me Quitte Pas

Ne Me Quitte Pas is a song about begging someone not to go; of promising the world to them, if...

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Purple Rain BBC Radio 4
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Purple Rain

"I never meant to cause you any sorrow, I never meant to cause you any pain..." True stories of...

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Young Hearts Run Free by Candi Staton BBC Radio 4
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Young Hearts Run Free by Candi Staton

Candi Staton and others celebrate this 1970's disco classic which delivers an optimistic...

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