between music and warfare from ancient african war dances to modern day sound cannons blasting metallica taliban hideouts in afghanistan that's coming your way next stay with us. this. good. red. gums not palm. in music. during the vietnam war americans force with old by military power is a cruel one they could not win with conventional weapons alert. in order to defeat the vietcong psychological operations likes but so i could friedman counted on musical little fans to tip the scales we had at tanks with loudspeakers i wanted we had jeeps of loud speakers we had aircraft a good fly over with loud speakers and we had men that actually put the loudspeakers on their back they had little packs a day when they would just walk right into the jungle and they would play it. the americans wanted to beats the vietnamese with military might but at the same time when that hearts and minds therefore they commissioned pro-american songs to win the movie. but when the vietcong intensified their attacks the us military strategy changed from now on eerie sounds poured out of the backpack speech because. that's

between music and warfare from ancient african war dances to modern day sound cannons blasting metallica at taliban hideouts in afghanistan coming up in our special report stay with us. one told them they actually use music to break prisoners so the idea that my music out a role in that is kind of outrageous. to keep the cia the leads that would be easy to interrogate people if they were so weak in. the music was so loud. and it was probably some of the worst torture that they faced. half. an hour. all right chris take it from the top we're ready. it's incredible you can go in here in marriage and national. insurance club or go. well i've always liked music i think most people do actually. music means good luck to me among many other things i love that i've had a chat to to write music partly for a living and partially for fun that's also helping people. it's incredible. nation. christopher soft as a composer for such the mystery because music helps to teach young children how to read and write for forty years he's been working for the famous children's television show during this time he's written