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Happiness, humour fun, laughter... it weaves its way through our music. We probably all have funny stories we associate with the music we love and undoubtedly, music brings us joy.

In this episode, Jenn and Ben explore the emotion of happiness in music as we chat about the humour in classical music, Ben shares some funny stories from his own career in music, and we hear amusing musical anecdotes from some of the people Jenna's chatted with including Sir Tim Rice, Aral O'Hanlon, Limahl, Tom McGuire and Spencer Flay.

The guys also discuss everything from elitism and accessibility of music, to the genuine humanity in it.

It's a fascinating, funny, and fresh discussion, approached with warmth and humour and guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

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In this fabulously festive episode of Moving Notes, Jenna and Ben catch up with film director, writer, lyricist, and creator of the Nativity! films, the brilliant Debbie Isitt.

We chat about how the first Nativity! film was made, improvisation in acting, the children's performances, and of course, the wonderful music and the emotion packed into it. We also explore how Debbie created the Nativity! stage show and we chat about some of her other theatre shows too. Plus, we discover her musical guilty pleasures!

Before all of that, Ben gives us a brilliant potted history of the tradition of Christmas carols and Jenn decides we should create a campaign to "bring back the festive horse!"

Intrigued? Get into the spirit of the season and give this festive edition a listen... whether you're on a Christmas walk or peeling your Christmas Day spuds! :).

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There is so much good stuff to get stuck in to in episode three!

Jenna and Ben welcome incredible installation artist Luke Jerram to the pod, for a fascinating conversation about Luke's artworks and the soundtracks that are integral to them. From his idea to put pianos in public places all across the world, to bringing music to children's homes on bicycles... and let's not forget the small matter of attempting to get the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra into a hot air balloon!

Luke's artwork has been experience by millions of people all across the globe and he shares his thoughts about the challenges of creating large scale installations. We also chat about the secret music of nature, and Gaia... his wonderful, emotive sculpture of the earth.

Ben's been pretty busy himself, and he shares more about lecturing at the Royal College of Music and Choir of the Earth's collaboration with the Bergen Philharmonic. Jenn reveals more about her own latest art installation and how it's all going with Velouria the cello!

Plus 'Guilty Pleasures' has a new jingle... and a lot to answer for! :)

To share your musical guilty pleasures with us, or if you have anything you'd like to say in response to the pod, do give us a shout over email.

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