Host Marco Werman lets us down softly at the end of this Wednesday edition of the show with new music from an ensemble of musician friends from Iran, India and the US. "This Pale" is the title of the project in which the artists provide an open interpretation of the love poetry of 13th-century mystic and writer Rumi.
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