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Clive Myrie is in conversation with fellow journalists about music heard in their working lives. Award-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario shares music and stories.

Clive Myrie is in conversation with fellow journalists about the music they’ve heard whilst reporting from the front line. With his own extensive experience of covering wars, and his personal love of opera and jazz, Clive and Lynsey Addario share stories to reveal something of the power and significance of music when working in extreme conflict situations.

Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who’s been covering conflict, humanitarian crises, and women’s issues around the Middle East and Africa for more than two decades. She’s taken award-winning photographs for the front pages of The New York Times and National Geographic Magazine of conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Darfur, South Sudan, Somalia, the DRC, Yemen, Syria, and the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Here she recalls the music that’s accompanied her working life:

The Prelude and Courante from Bach’s First Cello Suite played by Yo Yo Ma.

Khuttar written and performed by Ilham al-Madfai.

Wada Na Tod sung by Lata Mangeshkar.

Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor played by Maria-Joao Pires.

Daydreamer performed by Adele.

The slow movement from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata played by Paul Lewis.

Cuando by Michel Elefteriades performed by Hanine.

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Allegro (Spring), Nigel Kennedy with the English Chamber Orchestra.

Take me ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ, Country Roads sung by John Denver.

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.1 in G (Prelude)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.1 in G (Courante)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
  • Ilham al-Madfai

    Khuttar

  • Lata Mangeshkar

    Wada Na Tod

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Nocturne in C sharp minor

    Performer: Maria JoΓ£o Pires.
  • Adele

    Daydreamer

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Moonlight Sonata Op.27 No.2 (1st mvt: Adagio sostenuto)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
  • Hanine

    Cuando

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Spring (The Four Seasons)(1st mvt: Allegro)

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
  • John Denver

    Take Me ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ, Country Roads

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