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Darwin Songs

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Last broadcast on Fri, 27 Mar 2009, 11:00 on BBC Radio 4.

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Chris Eldon Lee hears the results after eight contemporary singer-songwriters are holed up for a week in a remote farmhouse in Shropshire and tasked to write songs about the life and work of Charles Darwin. Featuring their daily creative life in the farmhouse, their expeditions into the land that the young Darwin knew and the premiere performance of their songs at Shrewsbury's new Theatre Severn, close to Darwin's birthplace.

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  1. Fri 27 Mar 2009
    11:00

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30 minutes

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