Soul Music

Series exploring pieces of music with powerful emotional impact AI summary

BBC Radio 4 Visit website › Music · EN · 180 episodes · latest 2026-09-12

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Series about pieces of music with a powerful emotional impact.

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Landslide by Fleetwood Mac

2026-09-12 · 28 min

Landslide was written by Stevie Nicks in 1973, on the cusp of huge change in her life. Penned while she was depressed and struggling financially in the snow-covered mountains of Aspen, Colorado, the song captured a…
Wild Mountain Thyme

2026-09-07 · 28 min

"Oh the Summer time is coming. And the trees are sweetly blooming" Wild Mountain Thyme also known as Will Ye Go Lassie Go? is a much loved song around the world with its rousing chorus "And we'll all go together". It…
Sweet Caroline

2026-08-22 · 28 min

Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline was released in 1969, but it wasn't until the 1990s that it became a theme song for the Boston Red Sox, spreading to other other countries and sports, including the England football team.…
Rasputin by Boney M

2026-08-15 · 28 min

Rasputin was a massive disco hit for the British-German Caribbean group Boney M in 1978. Nearly fifty years later it remains a much loved symbol of happiness and freedom for a a truly global audience. This edition of…
Make You Feel My Love

2026-01-24 · 28 min

"When the rain is blowing in your face / And the whole world is on your case / I could offer you a warm embrace / To make you feel my love"Written by Bob Dylan for his Time Out of Mind album, 'Make You Feel My Love'…
Cranes in the Sky by Solange

2026-01-17 · 27 min

Marking 25 years of the award-winning series, Soul Music features songs from the last 25 years. “I tried to drink it away... I tried to run it away...” Solange’s hit song, written in 2008 and released eight years later,…
Yellow by Coldplay

2026-01-10 · 28 min

"Look at the stars, look how they shine for you..."True stories of what Yellow, one of Coldplay's most iconic songs, means to people 25 years on from its release.It's December 1999 and a relatively unknown band called…
Porcelain by Moby

2026-01-03 · 27 min

A song that was everywhere after it was released as a single in 2000. Moby's Porcelain has been used in films, TV and adverts yet remains a much loved melancholic downbeat electronic ballad. Reportedly written about the…
Soul Music at 25

2025-12-27 · 57 min

This hour long special celebrates a quarter of a century of the programme and charts the course of a human life through pieces of music. Cerys Matthews introduces a compilation of some of the diverse pieces of music…
Bésame Mucho

2025-04-26 · 28 min

Mexican pianist and composer Consuelo Velázquez was only 16 when she wrote Bésame Mucho, and she was yet to have her first kiss.Composer and conductor Odaline de la Martinez remembers hearing the song on the radio as a…

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Owner: BBC
Oldest episode in feed: 01/2008 · over 18 years
Typical length: 29 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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