Nicky Spence and Heidi Fardell drop in on the Honky Château

Operatic tenor Nicky Spence and recorder player and Baroque flautist Heidi Fardell are the studio guests of Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe. In today's five-track journey they head from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Belgium, a rural French château, a charitable institution in Venice, finishing up in Ireland where the past casts a long shadow.

Producer: Jerome Weatherald

Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Spoiler by Baloji

Panis Angelicus by César Franck

Honky Cat by Elton John

Flautino Concerto in C by Vivaldi

The Magdalene Laundries by Joni Mitchell

Other music in this episode:

The Third Man by Anton Karas

Rapture by Blondie

Rocket Man by Elton John