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Rick Wakeman and Anna Lapwood on the joys of the keyboard

Keyboard player Rick Wakeman and organist Anna Lapwood join Cerys and Jeffrey as they add the next five tracks.

Rick Wakeman - keyboard player and former member of the progressive rock group Yes - and organist Anna Lapwood join Cerys and Jeffrey as they add the next five tracks, taking us from a Welsh/Indian collaboration to Hans Zimmer via a 1995 rap classic.

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

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Moliannwn by Ghazalaw
My Blue Heaven sung by James Taylor
Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio
What are you going to do when you are not saving the world? by Hans Zimmer
A far l'amore comincia tu by Raffaella CarrΓ 

Other music in this episode:

Mas Que Nada by Sergio Mendes
Cricket on a Line by Colt Ford ft Rhett Atkins
The Old Cabin Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ by Bobby Horton
My Blue Heaven sung by Gene Austin
Rather Be by Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne
Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve
Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder
Space Oddity by David Bowie
No Time for Caution from Interstellar, played by Anna Lapwood
Do It, Do It Again by Raffaella CarrΓ 

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42 minutes

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  • Fri 21 Jul 2023 19:15
  • Sat 22 Jul 2023 22:15

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