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Nov 2018
16m 14s

Improvisation

BBC Radio
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Jazz trumpeter Alexandra Ridout is our guest for this totally spontaneous episode (in which Sam, predictably, is the most chillaxed member of the BBCYM podcast team). Does anyone... sing?

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