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On a sunny August evening in Gloucestershire in 1935, a father, family in tow,

is rushing across the countryside and they're cutting their holiday short.

His nine-year-old son Michael had contracted polio and was dying on the back seat of the car.

That father would go on to compose the music for the Queen's Coronation and John Kennedy's

memorial service, but he released his most famous work, knows paradisei following the terrible events of that day in Gloucestershire. Joining me today to nominate the composer Herbert Howells is Ed Balls, former Shadow Chancellor.

Tell me the first time that you heard this music, Ed.

I first heard Herbert Howell's and knew that I was listening to him.

When I was 18 years old I was a new undergraduate at Keyball College,

Oxford, has a beautiful chapel, a very very good choir. I'd come from a Church of England family. We went to church every week, but I'd never really

been to cathedrals very often and heard those hugely traditional settings of the canticles. And I spoke to somebody walking out the cathedral,

and I spoke to somebody walking out the cathedral, I've no idea who who and said the music today was was

incredible and he said that was Herbert Howles and what you should do is go listen to

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