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Episode details

Radio 3,12 Apr 2025,56 mins

SeriesMusic on the Front Line

Caroline Wyatt

Music Matters

Available for 20 days

Clive Myrie is in conversation with fellow journalists about the music they’ve heard whilst reporting from the front line. With his own extensive experience of covering wars, and his personal love of opera and jazz, Clive and Caroline Wyatt share stories to reveal something of the power and significance of music when working in extreme conflict situations. Caroline Wyatt is a BBC presenter and journalist. She began her career as a BBC foreign correspondent based in Berlin, Bonn, Moscow and Paris. During that period, she reported from Iraq, Kosovo, Chechnya, and the Middle East. She was then BBC Defence Correspondent covering operations in Iraq and Afghanistan before becoming BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent. She is now a presenter for Radio 4 Saturday PM. Here she recalls the music that accompanied her working life on the front line including Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Venus the Bringer of Peace from Holst’s The Planets and Bach’s Magnificat in D major. Producer: Rosie Boulton A Must Try Softer Production

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Tracklist

  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    William Tell Overture
    William Tell Overture
    Gioachino Rossini
  3. 2.
    Adagio for Strings
    Adagio for Strings
    Samuel Barber
  4. 3.
    Berceuse (Dolly Suite)
    Berceuse (Dolly Suite)
    Gabriel Fauré