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The Long Play - Freedom’s Song: Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement
Aired on Tuesday 11th November 2025, 6:00PM
On this episode of The Long Play we journey through a soundscape of resistance and resilience — the music that scored the Civil Rights Movement. In a time when the streets were alive with protest and hope, jazz became more than art. It became testimony. Our guide is the music itself — voices that rose against injustice, rhythms that carried both rage and redemption.
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