Radio review: Lady Plays the Blues

Cerys Matthews made riveting radio out of a trip to the Mississippi Delta to investigate the history of female blues musiciansIt was straight into riveting, intense atmosphere in Lady Plays the Blues (Radio 4, Saturday). Cerys Matthews, presenting, spoke over birdsong on a sultry day in the Mississippi Delta. "The fields just spread so wide towards the horizon," she said, all dreamily. "This is some of the most fertile land in the whole world." Her subject was the huge number of female blues mus...

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