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Clive Myrie is in conversation with fellow journalists about the music they’ve heard whilst reporting from the front line. With his own extensive experience of covering wars, and his personal love of opera and jazz, Clive and Don McCullin share stories to reveal something of the power and significance of music when working in extreme conflict situations.

Don McCullin is a legendary photographer. For the past 50 years he has proved himself a photojournalist without equal, whether documenting the poverty of London’s East End, or the horrors of wars in Africa, Asia or the Middle East.

In 1961 he won the British Press Award for his essay on the construction of the Berlin Wall. In 1993 he was the first photojournalist to be awarded a CBE. In between he took some of the most iconic photographs of war and conflict in the 20th Century

Here he recalls the music that accompanied his working life:

Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission composed by Ennio Morricone. The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Temple.

The Adagietto from Mahler’s 5th Symphony. Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

E lucevan le stelle from Puccini’s Tosca. Luciano Pavarotti with the National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Elgar’s Sospiri. Andrew Davis conducting the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra.

Barber’s Violin Concerto, 2nd Movement. Joshua Bell with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Zinman.

Vladimir Ashkenazy playing Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte.

The Overture to Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. John Eliot Gardiner with the English Baroque Soloists.

Producer: Rosie Boulton
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