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Why is The Lark Ascending so popular?

Frances Fyfield is joined by former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Young Musician of the Year Jennifer Pike, her father Jeremy, head of Composition at Cheetham's school of music in Manchester, and composer David Matthews to examine Ralph Vaughan Williams' British Classic 'The Lark Ascending' and what makes it so enduringly popular.

First broadcast on Tales From the Stave, 28 June 2016.

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