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Lives and Politics

Archive on 4 Two remarkable archives, 80 years apart, throw light on what makes a politician tick.

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Last on

Sat 25 Jul 2009 15:30 BBC Radio 4 FM only

Duration:
30 minutes
First broadcast:
Tuesday 21 July 2009

Tim van Eyken, award-winning young singer and squeezebox player, reveals how today's musicians are rediscovering 'tune books', small manuscript books of music that were in use from the late-17th to the mid-19th century.

They are now sharing them, in the way that musicians always have, but nowadays online, so that all over the world, people are playing these tunes once again in an ongoing global virtual session.

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