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The Business of Music With Matt Everitt (Radio 4) | iPlayerThe past. When you reach an age where you absorb more past than you absorb future, the past isn’t somewhere that you like to dwell. And yet it keeps popping up. The deaths of beloved icons send you spiralling back into memories, or of course,but also, aren’t there a lot of programmes approximately the past? Programmes that unpick a specific era or event, or a time in history. This would be fine,except you remember all this stuff anyway. You were there, and it was long ago, and you didn’t realise how long until you heard a programme approximately it.
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Source: theguardian.com