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Podcast: The Music Show
Episode: Cover Story: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Description: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was made famous by the version Roberta Flack recorded for her 1969 album First Take, which was then used in Clint Eastwood's 1971 film Play Misty for Me.  But it started life as a relatively simple folksong British folk singer Ewan MacColl wrote for and delivered to American folk singer Peggy Seeger down a phone line at the start of the 1960s. From folksong to torch song to torture device (sorry, Barbra Streisand), it's a song that has robustly weathered many interpretations. Poet and folk artist Kate Fagan and soprano Rachel Min...