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Jun 2025
42m 53s

Ashley Henry and Amy Harman on Bowie and...

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

Jazz pianist Ashley Henry and bassoonist Amy Harman join Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe to add five more tracks to the playlist, taking us from a Bowie dance classic to Marvin Gaye via an unexpected rare, live, performance by a jazz icon in a school in California, surprisingly recorded by the caretaker in 1968.

Producer: Jerome Weatherald Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Modern Love by David Bowie Piano Sonata No 32 in C Minor by Beethoven Epistrophy (Live) by Thelonious Monk Apple by Charli XCX I Heard it Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye

Other music in this episode:

Take it Higher by Ashley Henry The Magdalene Laundries by Joni Mitchell Starman by David Bowie Fame by David Bowie Under Pressure by David Bowie

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