Soul Music Mixtapes 

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Soul Music Mixtapes: 3. 'Mr Blue Sky' to 'Can't Help Falling In Love With You'

Cerys Matthews

3. 'Mr Blue Sky' to 'Can't Help Falling In Love With You'

Soul Music Mixtapes

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Soul Music Mixtapes, 3. 'Mr Blue Sky' to 'Can't Help Falling In Love With You'

Cerys Matthews chooses more favourite stories from 25 series of BBC Radio 4's Soul Music

Cerys Matthews picks more favourites from the 25 series of BBC Radio 4's Soul Music - the show about the music that moves us.

Cerys Matthews delves further into the archives to put together a specially curated mixtape of her favourite stories from across 25 series of the BBC Radio 4's Soul Music.

Each episode of Soul Music takes a different piece of music – it might be a pop song, or a hymn, or a piece of classical music or world music – and looks at why it moves us and what it means to different people. 

In the last of three episodes, Cerys's chooses:

ELO.: ‘Mr Blue Sky’
Sam Cooke: ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’
Bob Marley: ‘Redemption Song’
Julie Andrews: ‘Feed The Birds’
Communards: ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’
Elvis Presley: ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love With You’

Producer: Mair Bosworth.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in January 2018.

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Cerys Matthews chooses her favourite stories from 25 series of BBC Radio 4's Soul Music.

Cerys Matthews shares a specially curated mixtape of her favourite stories from across the 25 series of BBC Radio 4's Soul Music.

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