World Service Music Documentaries - Freedom Songs

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American civil rights song and Nina Simon hit I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free is instantly recognisable. How did the song come to be written and what is its place in the US today?

Published on Tuesday, 11th February 2014.

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