Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye present the first episode of the new series from the BBC marquee in front of a live audience at the Hay Festival 2022.
Their musical guests on stage in the tent are the opera tenor Wynne Evans, best known as Gio Compario in the TV insurance adverts, as well as Anne Denholm, Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales from 2015 to 2019, and the violinist and composer Patrick Rimes.
In this one-off show, Cerys, Jeffrey and guests create a five-track playlist where each track is chosen for its musical connection with the previous one, starting with a Welsh singalong classic.
Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye
Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:
Cwm Rhondda by the Treorchy Male Voice Choir
La Donna è Mobile from Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, sung by Luciano PavarottiPoker Face by Lady GagaOne Day More from Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil (from the film soundtrack)Symphony No. 3 in E♭ major, Op. 55, (The Eroica Symphony) by Ludwig van BeethovenOther music in this episode:
Llechi by Patrick Rimes
My Sharona by The KnackSussudio by GenesisBad to the Bone by George ThorogoodBennie and the Jets by Elton John