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Series 6

Debbie Wiseman and Sam Sweeney head from the slopes to the ice

Duration: 42 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Film and TV composer Debbie Wiseman OBE and musician and fiddler Sam Sweeney, formerly of the folk group Bellowhead, join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye as they choose the next five tracks, in the penultimate episode of the current series.

This week's journey takes us from a popular Sunday evening TV theme to an Etta James classic via the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented, with music direction, by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Pop Goes Bach (the Ski Sunday theme) by Sam Fonteyn
We Will be Absorbed by Spiro
Ponto Das Caboclas by Moça Prosa
Boléro by Maurice Ravel
I’d Rather Go Blind by Etta James (Jeffrey)

Other music in this episode:

Mack the Knife by Louis Armstrong
Alleluia by Debbie Wiseman, sung by The Ascension Choir
A far l'amore comincia tu by Raffaella Carrà
Bach Street Prelude. performed by Vanessa-Mae
Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
These Arms of Mine by Otis Redding
I've Been Wrong So Long by Bobby Bland Show less

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