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My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.

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but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.

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we have trained journalists, people who love digging through archives,

we've got drama and even comedy experts.

We really can do those stories justice.

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You're listening to a download of soul music from BBC Radio 4.

The thing that most captivates me about this piece of music,

the first of all, it's beauty. It's transcendental beauty.

You hear them straight away.

It's this terrific work.

Wonderful work.

Seems to have been there forever.

That's the remarkable thing.

When you first hear it, you think I've known this all my life.

Thank you. And the thing I'm And the thing I find so moving is that although, of course, it's a symphonic piece of work, it is the human voice which is at the centre of it and the beauty of that human voice and the life lived because

this was a piece written at the end of his life which Strauss never even heard.

Oh, my name's Georgian song in God. The defining moment.

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