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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.

My name is Graham Fife. I used to sing when I was living in Norfolk in the University of East

Anglia Choir and I joined the Oldborough Festival Singers. So the deal was that we'd meet at

Blythebra Church in the Suffolk countryside. It's a magical place. There's Heathland, marshland.

It's quite stark. The sky is very, very big and Blytheborough almost standing there on its own, you know, reaches up into that

great firmament. I'm choking up, just remembering what it was like. We stood there with our

scores round the font. So we stood in a great big circle. And there is that moment of silence, total silence.

And when that first voice came in, it really was like an enchantment.

Stayed in a liu, you are the aback now It is like a dawn of the bird's

It is like a dawn, first ray of light coming,

even the first twittering of the birds in the stillness.

There are certain bits of music that tug on heartstrings,

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