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Charlie Gillett concludes a series exploring the ways that unique combinations of instruments, voices and rhythms have defined the pop, rock and soul sound of individual cities. The series winds down with the music of Los
Angeles, with input from guest Barney Hoskyns.

Contributors

Unknown:
Charlie Gillett
Unknown:
Barney Hoskyns.

Singer-songwriter
Kirsty MacColl 's series on the popular music of Cuba, recorded shortly before her death last
December. On the agenda tonight are cars, bars and cigars,as MacColl hears how the four-wheeled American classics of the fifties are now a national resource. She also discovers the secrets of the smoothest
Havana rum and, in a visit to a local factory, the finest Cuban cigar.

Contributors

Singer-Songwriter:
Kirsty MacColl

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