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Natalie Duncan and Martin Phipps unpick a children's festive favourite

Pianist and singer Natalie Duncan and Martin Phipps, composer of The Crown and Ridley Scott's Napoleon, join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye to add five more tracks.

Pianist, singer and songwriter Natalie Duncan and Martin Phipps, composer of TV's The Crown and Ridley Scott's new film Napoleon, join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye as they travel from Senegal to a massive Cher hit from 1998.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented, with music direction, by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

El hadji n'fa djigui Diabat茅 by Salimata Diabat茅
Mute Heart by Matt Calvert
Jingle Bells by Dean Shostak
Il Dolce Suono by Gaetano Donizetti
Believe by Cher

Other music in this episode:

Insomnia 2021 by Faithless (Maceo Plex Epic Remix)
Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian
Wild Signals from Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams
So Doggone Lonesome by Ernest Tubb
Adagio in C for Glass Harmonica, K356 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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42 minutes

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  • Fri 1 Dec 2023 19:15
  • Sat 2 Dec 2023 22:15

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