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Hubert Parry composed his song ‘Jersulem’ 100 years ago this month during the gloom of World War I when the uplifting new English hymn was more than warmly welcome. Petroc visits the Royal College of Music with journalist Simon Heffer to see the secrets of a manuscript, and hear the story behind the composition, its connection to George Grove, the poet laureate, to a radical political group ‘The Fight for Right Movement’, and to the Suffragettes too. From there to being a piece at the heart of the Last Night of the Proms… Broadcast in March 2016
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