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Samuel Pepys' iPod

04/12/2010

Samuel Pepys' Playlist

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Samuel Pepys, diarist, politician and womaniser, as revealed in his favourite songs.

4 Extra Debut. Samuel Pepys - diarist, politician and womaniser - as revealed in his favourite songs and reimagined by David Owen Norris.

Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, loved music. It outlasted all his other passions- even his passion for women. He left hundreds of his favourite songs, some covered in wine stains, relics of drunken musical evenings. 

David Owen Norris explores the songs in the Pepys Library in Cambridge with historians Richard Luckett, Jenny Uglow and Basie Gitlin, and recreates the music he loved best. With singers Gwyneth Herbert, Thomas Guthrie and Laura Crowther. 

Producer: Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.

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David Owen Norris asks which tunes famous historical figures would have had on their iPods

David Owen Norris asks which tunes famous historical figures would have had on their iPods. He recreates their favourite songs with help from academics and musicians

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