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Bats, Balls and Ballads

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Simon Townley examines the relationship between sport and music in two programmes and asks why the bond between the two is so strong.
1: He covers the sweep from ancient Greece to the Olympian revival of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain and the songs that accompanied it.
Producer Tom Alban. Rptd Wednesday 11.30pm

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Simon Townley
Producer:
Tom Alban.
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