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Wales: Music Nation with Huw Stephens
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2022 (60 mins)
Wales is known as the Land of Song, a musical nation. But where does the idea come from, and what does the music of Wales tell us about who we are? Music fanatic Huw Stephens delves deep into the surprising...
Art That Made Us
Episode 8 ' Brilliant Isles
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
Brilliant Isles, the final episode of the series, explores how the generation of artists who recorded the shocks of global war gave way in the 1950s and 1960s to an explosion of new voices from across the...
Green Originals
Episode Thirteen - Joni Mitchell
- Broadcast
- 2020 (13 mins)
Folk Singer Sam Lee takes a look at the legacy of Joni Mitchell’s environmental anthem Big Yellow Taxi.
Our Dementia Choir
Episode 2
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In the second episode, Vicky sets out to see the impact of music on people in the later stages of dementia when she visits a care home offering exemplary music therapy and sees how their unique approach is...
Our Dementia Choir
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In episode one, Vicky starts the search for choir members, meeting people with different types of dementia and at different stages. One of the first to join is former woodwork teacher Chris whose...
The Music Of Time
Chile
- Broadcast
- 2017 (49 mins)
Wyre Davies explores what happened when the Chilean Nueva Canci-n movement collided with General Pinochet’s brutal regime. In the late fifties a style of popular folk music was born which evoked Chile’s...
The Music Of Time
After The Ottomans
- Broadcast
- 2017 (50 mins)
How the music of the dying Ottoman Empire was reborn and reinvented in the United States. Between 1895 and 1923, as the empire was unraveling, several hundred thousand Greeks, Armenians, Arabs, Jews and...
The Music Of Time
Japan
- Broadcast
- 2017 (49 mins)
As Japan emerged from the Second World War, American occupation forces set out to remake Japanese society in their own image. They decided that popular music would play its part - especially jazz: democratic...
The Music Of Time
Jamaica
- Broadcast
- 2017 (49 mins)
The Music of Time from Kingston, Jamaica with Dr Carolyn Cooper from the University of West Indies, looks at Jamaican music through the decades. From drumming during slavery, to 1970’s reggae, dancehall...
The Music Of Time
India
- Broadcast
- 2017 (49 mins)
Jasdeep Singh explores the profound effects of Indian independence and partition in 1947 on music across the north-west of the subcontinent. On the 15 of August 1947 India gained its independence and was...