FACTUAL
Soul Music
Tuesday 14 March 2006 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Repeated: Saturday 18 March 2006 15:30-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)
The series about music that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
Old Man River flowed out of the 1927 musical Show Boat, and remains with us as both a political anthem of oppressed people and a song of deep comfort.
Sung by a hospital porter, it was the last song that market trader Dave Everett heard before he went into surgery, and it calmed his fears. Tony Benn recalls hearing the great Paul Robeson singing it at the House of Lords Tea Room.
The programme includes interviews with Tony Benn, Paul Robeson Jr and Cleo Laine.
