Wynne Evans, Anne Denholm and Patrick Rimes at the Hay Festival

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Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye present the first episode of the new series from the BBC marquee in front of a live audience at the Hay Festival 2022. Their musical guests on stage in the tent are the opera tenor Wynne Evans, best known as Gio Compario in the TV insurance adverts, as well as Anne Denholm, Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales from 2015 to 2019, and the violinist and composer Patrick Rimes. In this one-off show, Cerys, Jeffrey and guests create a five-track playlist where each track is chosen for its musical connection with the previous one, starting with a Welsh singalong classic. Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome Weatherald The five tracks in this week's playlist: Cwm Rhondda by the Treorchy Male Voice Choir La Donna è Mobile from Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, sung by Luciano Pavarotti Poker Face by Lady Gaga One Day More from Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil (from the film soundtrack) Symphony No. 3 in E♭ major, Op. 55, (The Eroica Symphony) by Ludwig van Beethoven Other music in this episode: Llechi by Patrick Rimes My Sharona by The Knack Sussudio by Genesis Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood Bennie and the Jets by Elton John