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The Fifth Floor: Music and memory

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25/09/2020 GMT

Music and memory

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, Music and memory

Songs to share, sing and dance to: a global playlist for those with Alzheimer's

Songs to share, sing and dance to: a global playlist for those with Alzheimer's, compiled by the BBC’s language services, including BBC Persian journalist Behzad Bolour.

This week, the World Service marked World Alzheimer's Day with a BBC Music and Memory project, exploring the power of music to reach sufferers with the disease.   It launched a website of global tracks to trigger memories, compiled with the help of the BBC's language services.  Behzad Bolour compiled BBC Persian's list, his father suffered from dementia, but still sang with him.  He also explores Iran’s complex relationship with music.  

But what tracks does the rest of the world dance and remember to?  We hear from BBC Arabic's Nahed Najjar,  Adedayo Owolabi of BBC Yoruba,  Kateryna Khinkulova of BBC Russian and Partha Prasad from the Indian languages hub in Delhi about some of the tracks they contributed to the world music database, and why.

The Moria camp fire: one family’s story 
Talibshah Hosseini from Afghanistan had to flee with his wife and 3 children as his tent was destroyed in a huge fire at Greece’s largest migrant camp earlier this month.  The overcrowded camp, on the island of Lesbos, was home to 13,000 migrants, the majority from Afghanistan.  Talibshah told his story to BBC journalist Kawoon Khamoosh. 

My Home Town: Feira de Santana
Camilla Costa of BBC Brasil takes us to her home town in Bahia, Brazil, to eat peanuts and sit in the hot springs with her grandmother.

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