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Keith Waithe's Magic Christmas

Cerys celebrates with a Guyana Christmas party courtesy of flautist and composer Keith Waithe.

Cerys celebrates with a Guyana Christmas party. Flautist and composer Keith Waithe, who most recently took Loyle Carner to Georgetown Guyana to explore his Guyanese roots for Radio 4's Sound Odyssey gets the party going with some Calypso.

Keith Waithe is a professional musician, composer and band leader of Keith Waithe and the Macusi Players. He has been playing for most of his life across Guyana, South America, and England. He holds workshops and master classes and has been a regular act over the last 20 years at Ealing Jazz festival. Alongside all of this Keith also owns one of the largest collections of flutes 鈥 with over 200 鈥 from all over the world.

Thomas Waters also stops by to discuss his new book 'Cursed Britain: A History Of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times' ,out now on Yale University Press. 'Cursed Britain' is the definitive history of how evil magic has survived into the present day. The book ranges from wise-women to the deliverance ministry, from Victorian occultists to New Age therapists, to reveal why witchcraft has persisted, and why it is again on the rise鈥

Dr Thomas Waters is a lecturer in history at Imperial College London and a specialist in the modern history of witchcraft and magic. This is his first book.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 15 Dec 2019 10:00

Music Played

  • The Jimmy Castor Bunch

    Don't Do That!

  • Gyedu-Blay Ambolley

    I No Dey Talk I Do Dey Lie

  • The Lost Brothers

    Here Comes The Snow

  • The Magic Tones

    I've Changed

  • Mother Earth

    Gotta Get Better In A Little While

  • Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros

    Willesden To Cricklewood

  • Remi, Sensible J & Lori

    Brain

  • Aaron Neville

    Mojo Hannah

  • Jack Nitzsche

    Natural Magic

  • Magnet

    Willows Song

  • Lana Del Rey

    Season Of The Witch

  • The Neville Brothers

    Voodoo

  • Patrick Page II

    Voodoo

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Voodoo Chile

  • D'angelo, Method Man & Redman

    Left and Right (edit)

  • Cyril Diaz

    Voodoo

  • Lou Donaldson & Allen Toussaint

    Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (From Now On)

  • Steamhammer

    Junior's Wailing

  • Huey 鈥淧iano鈥 Smith & His Clowns

    All I Want For Christmas

  • Tobi Sunmola

    Casino Royale

  • Asha Bhosle

    Yeh Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana

  • Herbie Mann

    Memphis Two -Step

  • Sleaford Mods

    When You Come Up To Me (Clean)

  • Robert Walter's 20th Congress

    Dark Star

  • Eagles

    Witchy Woman聽

  • Funkadelic

    I'll Bet You

  • Booker T. Jones & Lou Reed

    The Bronx

  • Reuben Wilson

    Orange Peel

  • Mahalia Jackson

    The First Noel

  • Speedometer

    Slinky Boots

  • S. J. Hawkins

    I Put A Spell On You

  • Johnny Albino Y Su Trio San Juan

    Mar Y Cielo

  • Jos茅 Feliciano

    Feliz Navidad

Broadcast

  • Sun 15 Dec 2019 10:00