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A searchable database for BBC Radio 6 Music – Radcliffe and Maconie's The Chain, officially the longest listener-generated thematically linked sequence of musically based items on the radio.

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3609. Peter Bjorn and John – Young Folks

Peter Bjorn and John

Suggested by Andrew from Brighton

From Patrick Wolf to ‘Peter and the Wolf’, and a band whose name includes ‘Peter’…

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3608. Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position

Patrick Wolf

Suggested by Adam in Finchley

Persephone was a Roman goddess and Rome’s foundation story has the twins Romulus and Remus as central characters.

Bonus link: Romulus and Remus were said to have suckled at the teat of a wolf.

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3607. Cocteau Twins – Persephone

Cocteau Twins

Suggested by Dave in Oundle

Proserpina is the Roman name of the goddess known in Greek as Persephone…

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3606. Martha Wainwright – Proserpina

Martha Wainwright

Suggested by Jill from Humberston, Chris from Bradford, Róisín in Lossiemouth(?), Peter in Devon, Kate in Toronto

‘Little Sister’ is about Rufus Wainwright’s little sister, Martha, so to a song written by their mother, sung by Martha Wainwright…

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3605. Rufus Wainwright – Little Sister

Rufus Wainwright

Suggested by Emma in Skipton

A sister link…

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3604. Sisters of Mercy – Lucretia, My Reflection

Sisters Of Mercy

Suggested by Dave in Repton

From Annie to another girls’ name…

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