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Radio 4,24 Jun 2022,42 mins

Series Series 3

Hannah French and Neil Brand bring on the musical fireworks

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Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye are joined by musicologist Hannah French and composer Neil Brand as they take us from the stables of Versailles to a Shirley MacLaine classic as they add another five tracks to the playlist. Bhangra specialist DJ Sonny Ji celebrates a joyous track inspired by the children's chant 'Eeny, meeny, miny, moe'. Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome Weatherald Listen to Hannah French's Radio 3 documentary The Silence of my Pain https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p6d4 The five tracks in this week's playlist: Coppélia: Galop Final by Léo Delibes Overture to Acante et Céphise by Rameau If They Could See Me Now by Shirley MacLaine Get Ur Freak On by Missy Elliott Eena Meena Deeka by Kishore Kumar Other music in this episode: Black Sky by The Ozark Mountain Daredevils And the Swallow by Caroline Shaw Jubilee Rag by Winifred Atwell Galloping Home by Denis King Pygmalion: Overture by Jean-Philippe Rameau

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