Make You Feel My Love
Soul Music
BBC
4.7 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
"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' went on to become a huge hit for Adele and has been covered by Billy Joel, Ane Brun and many more.
With its promise of unfaltering love, we find out what the song means to different people around the world. It has inspired a translation into a 65,000 year old language and a choral version with the comfort of a psalm; it has soundtracked heartbreak and grief; and become a lullaby of parental love.
Featuring music writer Annie Zaleski, musicians Ane Brun and Dyagula, organist and conductor Anna Lapwood, Howard Simons, Aly Halberstadt, and Adele's manager Jonathan Dickins.
Produced by Mair Bosworth A BBC Audio production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Greg Jenner, and good news, |
| 0:09.5 | Your Dead to Me, is back for a new series. |
| 0:11.6 | Here we go. |
| 0:12.1 | Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Mary Beard and Patton Oswald. |
| 0:16.9 | I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. |
| 0:21.0 | We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke de Leon with Tom Allen. |
| 0:24.8 | I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. |
| 0:29.1 | And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihelina. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm excited. |
| 0:33.7 | You're dead to me. |
| 0:34.5 | The comedy podcast that takes history seriously. |
| 0:37.0 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.3 | When the rain is blowing in your face and the whole world is on your case, |
| 0:44.9 | I could offer you a warm embrace to make you feel my love. |
| 0:50.9 | When the rain is blowing in your face, and the rain is blue it in your face |
| 0:55.0 | And the home |
| 0:59.0 | I was trying to recall the first time I heard Bob Dylan's |
| 1:02.0 | To make you feel my love |
| 1:04.0 | I could offer you a warm |
| 1:07.0 | The first time I heard it, I think I was in the car with my mum |
| 1:10.0 | listening to it on the radio, |
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