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Why Do We Sing?
Choirmaster Gareth Malone mixes science and cultural history to explore singing's role in our development. From 2008.
Gareth Malone explores how man developed the vocal capability to sing.
He investigates how singing as we know it today began hundreds of millions of years ago.
Discover how prehistoric man used a type of vocal communication which could be called the precursor of singing.
Gareth finds out how this changed and developed as man evolved.
He explores what this tells us about human communication and how our relationship with song has grown out of moments in early history.
Producer: Emma Kingsley
First broadcast on 成人快手 Radio 4 in 2008.
On radio
Thu 6 Mar 2025
10:30
成人快手 Radio 4 Extra
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