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Anne Dudley and Ruairi Glasheen take us from Azerbaijan to Dover

Composer Anne Dudley and percussionist Ruairi Glasheen join Cerys and Jeffrey as they travel from Iran to Turkey and on to Dover via a coffee house in Leipzig

Musician and composer Anne Dudley and percussionist Ruairi Glasheen embark on a musical journey across continents, centuries and styles as they add the next five tracks to the playlist.

Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye also find out from specialist Simon Heighes about the background to a popular work by Bach, famously used in those old cigar adverts.

This episode was first broadcast in March this year.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented, with music direction, by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Infinity by Imamyar Hasanov
Mehter Vuruyor by Mehter
She’s Gone by Darryl Hall & John Oates
Air from Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major by J S Bach
Many Rivers to Cross by Jimmy Cliff

Other music in this episode:

8 Dogs 8 Banjos by Old Crow Medicine Show
Makhloogh by Googoosh
7 Heures du Matin by Jacqueline TaΓ―eb
A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum
Vietnam by Jimmy Cliff

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  • Fri 17 Mar 2023 19:15
  • Tue 29 Aug 2023 19:15

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