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Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe explore the rich web of connections in music.

Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe continue to explore the rich web of connections in music, from Beyoncé to Beethoven, on Radio 4's weekly music programme.

Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe take us on a musical journey of discovery, exploring the web of connections between tracks across the breadth of all musical styles, from pop, rock, reggae and hip-hop to classical, jazz, folk and country.

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Add to Playlist: Series 1: Dele Sosimi and Clare Norburn on Afrobeat and a Medieval visionary

Series 1

Dele Sosimi and Clare Norburn on Afrobeat and a Medieval visionary

BBC Radio 4 - Add to Playlist, Series 1, Dele Sosimi and Clare Norburn on Afrobeat and a Medieval visionary

Cerys and Jeffrey compile the final playlist of the series.

Afrobeat musician Dele Sosimi and soprano Clare Norburn help Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye compile the final playlist of the series.

For the final episode of this series, Afrobeat musician Dele Sosimi and soprano Clare Norburn talk us through the importance of building a track's opening, and celebrate a visionary Abbess from the 12th century.

This takes the playlist of this series to 40, chosen and curated by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye.  

Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye
Producer Jerome Weatherald

This week's five tracks added to the playlist:

O Frondens Virga by Hildegard von Bingen, sung by Emily D'Angelo
Chariots of Fire by Vangelis
Take me to the Mardi Gras by Bob James
Riders on the Storm by The Doors
It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls


Other music in this episode:

The Magnificent Seven by Elmer Bernstein
O Frondens Virga by The Telling
The City of Violets by Stavros Logarides
Take me to the Mardi Gras by Paul Simon
Peter Piper by Run-D.M.C.
The Story of the Rhodes by Bluey and Friends, ft Tom O'Grady
Also Sprach Zarathustra by Deodato
Family Affair by Sly and The Family Stone
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky sung by Vaughn Monroe
Hardly Wait by P J Harvey, sung by Juliette Lewis

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