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Maya Youssef and Ben Gernon take us to Syria and Hamburg
British-Syrian Maya Youssef - virtuoso player of the Middle Eastern stringed instrument the qanun - and conductor Ben Gernon, join Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe to add five more tracks to the playlist. Starting by the dock of the bay, they travel to Damascus, Hamburg and land on a 1950s familiar pop classic sung by a 14-year-old.
Producer: Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe
The five tracks in this week's playlist:
(Sitting on) the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding
The Waves of the Sea by Lena Shamamyan
Mache dich auf! Werde Licht! (Arise! Let there be light!) by Felix Mendelssohn
Blank Space (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift
Why Do Fools Fall In Love by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
Other music in this episode:
Parisienne Walkways by Gary Moore
Sweet Child O’Mine by Guns N’ Roses
Hard to Handle by Otis Redding
Blank Space by Taylor Swift
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British-Syrian Maya Youssef - virtuoso player of the Middle Eastern stringed instrument the qanun - and conductor Ben Gernon, join Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe to add five more tracks to the playlist. Starting by the dock of the bay, they travel to Damascus, Hamburg and land on a 1950s familiar pop classic sung by a 14-year-old.
Producer: Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe
The five tracks in this week's playlist:
(Sitting on) the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding
The Waves of the Sea by Lena Shamamyan
Mache dich auf! Werde Licht! (Arise! Let there be light!) by Felix Mendelssohn
Blank Space (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift
Why Do Fools Fall In Love by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
Other music in this episode:
Parisienne Walkways by Gary Moore
Sweet Child O’Mine by Guns N’ Roses
Hard to Handle by Otis Redding
Blank Space by Taylor Swift
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