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Soul Music Series 15 Episodes

    Shipbuilding

    5/5 The Robert Wyatt song from 1982, written by Elvis Costello and Clive Langer.

    Pergolesi's Stabat Mater

    4/5 The Stabat Mater hymn imagines the sufferings of the Virgin Mary at the foot of the cross.

    She Moved Through The Fair

    3/5 Sinéad O'Connor & others talk about the haunting beauty of this ancient song. From 2013.

    Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

    2/5 More than just 'da da da dum', how Beethoven's famous symphony touched people's lives.

    Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is?

    1/5 The impact of the song written by Leiber and Stoller, inspired by the writer Thomas Mann.