Soul Music

9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4

Waterloo Sunset casts its spell over listeners. There is a dreamy quality to The Kinks’ song, which has been described by one music critic as ‘the most beautiful song in the English language’. It has a pleasing chord progression, and lyrics that take listeners on a steady voyage along the ‘dirty ol’ river’. In this first of a new run of the series about music that touches the soul, we hear how this song evokes memories of love, sorrow, loss and survival.