Wednesday 28 August 2019 BBC Radio 4 A Singer's Guide to Britain
4/4 We Travel with Songs Roderick Williams gets on the road to tell the stories of Britain through our songs.

In this final programme, Roderick looks at the way that song can express a common humanity - and at some of the songs given voice by people who have come to these islands, as visitors, as refugees and as distinct communities. He visits a singing session for asylum seekers and refugees in Cardiff and hears about the singing legacies of the Jewish East End and Irish workers in Birmingham.

Featuring Laura Bradshaw, Billy Bragg, Alan Dein, Joseph Gnagbo, Marie, Angela Moran and Zarife. Thanks to Valley and Vale Community Arts. Alan Dein's compilation of 'Yiddisher jazz' is called Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World (JWM Records).