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EPISODE · Dec 26, 2022 · 42 MIN

Richard Stilgoe and Alina Bzhezhinska start a new playlist

from Add to Playlist · host BBC Radio 4

This week, Radio 4 is revisiting four episodes of the most recent series of Add to Playlist, which has recently won two major awards: the Prix Italia for Best International Radio Music show, and the Prix Europa for the Best European one. The episodes were first broadcast in October, and today, songwriter, lyricist and musician Richard Stilgoe and Ukrainian-born harpist Alina Bzhezhinska join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye create the playlist of five tracks for the first episode.With each track being chosen for its musical connections to the previous one, this week re-working earlier material emerges as a theme as we head from the Wild West to a Gestapo prison cell.Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:The Good, The Bad and The Ugly by Ennio Morricone Love Me Tender by Elvis Presley Don't Tell Me by Madonna First movement of Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Górecki, sung by Dawn Upshaw with the London Sinfonietta Afro Blue by Melanie De BiasioOther music in this episode:Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf Pastures of Plenty by Woody Guthrie Pastures of Plenty by Peter Tevis Aura Lee by Slim Whitman Stop by Joe Henry Second movement of Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Górecki Afro Blue by Mongo Santamaria Afro Blue by John Coltrane

This week, Radio 4 is revisiting four episodes of the most recent series of Add to Playlist, which has recently won two major awards: the Prix Italia for Best International Radio Music show, and the Prix Europa for the Best European one. The episodes were first broadcast in October, and today, songwriter, lyricist and musician Richard Stilgoe and Ukrainian-born harpist Alina Bzhezhinska join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye create the playlist of five tracks for the first episode.With each track being chosen for its musical connections to the previous one, this week re-working earlier material emerges as a theme as we head from the Wild West to a Gestapo prison cell.Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:The Good, The Bad and The Ugly by Ennio Morricone Love Me Tender by Elvis Presley Don't Tell Me by Madonna First movement of Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Górecki, sung by Dawn Upshaw with the London Sinfonietta Afro Blue by Melanie De BiasioOther music in this episode:Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf Pastures of Plenty by Woody Guthrie Pastures of Plenty by Peter Tevis Aura Lee by Slim Whitman Stop by Joe Henry Second movement of Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Górecki Afro Blue by Mongo Santamaria Afro Blue by John Coltrane

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