In 1738, a sick and quietly desperate Charles Wesley had an experience he could not explain --- so he did what came naturally. He wrote a song. Then another. Then six thousand more. In this episode, Harmonia follows the extraordinary story of how one man's gift for melody tore down the screen between ordinary people and their own sacred voice, and asks a quietly urgent question: in an age of endless music and expensive earbuds, when did we stop singing together --- and what did we lose when we did?

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