Podcast Episodes

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Memories of first love, first borns and loss are stirred by 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'.

This timeless love song was written by Ewan MacColl…

9 years, 10 months ago

Jerusalem

"Jerusalem" has become a quintessentially middle-class and very English song, but it's also held in the hearts and memories of people from different …

9 years, 10 months ago

A Change Is Gonna Come, by Sam Cooke

Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come has become synonymous with the American Civil Rights Movement.

It was released in December 1964, two weeks after th…

9 years, 11 months ago

Feed the Birds

'Feed The Birds' was written for the film Mary Poppins by Richard and Robert Sherman.

10 years, 4 months ago

Mozart's Requiem

How Mozart's Requiem, written when he was dying, has touched and changed people's lives.

Crime writer Val McDermid recalls how this music helped her …

10 years, 4 months ago

The Way You Look Tonight

'The Way You Look Tonight' was written by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields for the 1936 film 'Swing Time'.

Sung by Fred Astaire to Ginger Rogers while …

10 years, 4 months ago

Sukiyaki (Ue o Muite Arukou)

Memories of a prison camp in the Arizona desert, a tsunami and a plane crash are stirred by the bittersweet Japanese song Sukiyaki, a huge global hit…

10 years, 5 months ago

Bring Him Home

Bring Him Home is a beautiful and moving prayer-in-song that has developed meaning and identity outside of the hit musical, from Les Miserables.

What …

10 years, 5 months ago

Fairytale of New York

The tragi-comic tale of love gone sour and shattered dreams eloquently depicted in the Christmas classic Fairytale of New York is the focus of this e…

10 years, 8 months ago

Nimrod

Edward Elgar's incomparable Nimrod, and the part it plays in people's lives, is explored this week:

Composed as part of the Enigma Variations in the l…

10 years, 9 months ago