Jameela Siddiqi
Jameela Siddiqi argues that Indian classical music is a powerful, sustaining and with that a civilising force which had a particular impact on her life.
Jameela Siddiqi remembers her own relatively late discovery of the power of Indian classical music in the hands of the Sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. A successful TV news producer with a stable job and a casual enthusiasm for music from Bach to the Beatles she found her world turned upside down by a concert by Khan in the late 1980s. She describes what happened to her, the musical world into which she felt inducted and the qualities of that world that she believes are entirely civilising.
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- Thu 29 Mar 201822:45BBC Radio 3
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