Soul Music Mixtapes 

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Soul Music Mixtapes: 1. 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' to 'Tainted Love'

Cerys Matthews

1. 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' to 'Tainted Love'

Soul Music Mixtapes

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Soul Music Mixtapes, 1. 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' to 'Tainted Love'

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

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

Cerys Matthews delves 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 first of three episodes, Cerys's chooses:

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons: ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’
Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor
Carly Simon: ‘You Are My Sunshine’
Eric Satie: ‘Gymnopedie'
Leonard Cohen: ‘Hallelujah’
PP Arnold: ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest’
Peggy Seeger: ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’
Soft Cell: ‘Tainted Love’

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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