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The Children’s Hour explores what it’s like to be a refugee with two-time Grammy-winning Oud virtuoso, Rahim AlHaj.

What makes a person flee their home to become a stranger in a strange land? What gets left behind, and what do they carry with them? Rahim shares his personal story, and plays some music on the world’s oldest string instrument.
| duration | title | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03:14 | Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream | Johnny Cash | American VI: Ain't No Grave | 2010 American Recordings, LLC & The Island Def Jam Music Group |
| 04:45 | Tamatant Tilay / Exodus | Herbie Hancock, Tinariwen, K'naan & Los Lobos | The Imagine Project | 2009 Hancock Music |
| 03:35 | Iraqi Lullaby | Rahim Alhaj | Journey | 2014 Ur Music |
| 03:46 | Refugee Rolling | Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars | Living Like a Refugee | 2006 Anti- |
| 07:39 | Going Home | Rahim Alhaj & Little Earth Orchestra | Little Earth | 2010 UR Music |
| 02:00 | Qaasim | Rahim Alhaj & Stephen Kent | Little Earth | 2010 UR Music |
| 03:08 | I Am Malala (feat. Debbie Lan) | Alastair Moock | All Kinds of You and Me | 2015 Alastair Moock |
| 04:12 | From a Distance | Nanci Griffith | From a Distance - The Very Best of Nanci Griffith | This Compilation 2002 MCA Nashville, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. |
| 03:10 | One World | Anna Moo | Mooey Christmas! | 1996 Good Moo's Productions |









