 
A day of World Music on Radio 3: Sunday 6th March
For a full track listing and further information, click on the programme title
One Equal Music? and Awards for World Music 2005
 ONE EQUAL MUSIC?
The many voices of world music are linked by common human experiences - from the Bedouins roaming the cradle of civilisations via the European Broadcasting Union's own variety of folk and fusion to the distant island choirs of the Pacific with their unique himene.
For this special broadcast Andrew McGregor hosts a virtual roundtable with Ian Anderson and Ben Mandelson, following the story of the genre latterly known as World Music - from a pub gathering in 1987 to Radio 3's own Awards for World Music. Meanwhile, familiar Radio 3 voices explore some unfamiliar traditions, and Lucy Duran makes a musical grand salad in the studio with the Afro Celts.
LISTEN TO THE INTRODUCTION TO THE SHOW
Making a 'Grand Salad'
Throughout the afternoon, Lucy Duran documents the making of a world music track by the Afro Celts: She follows producer/writer/guitarist Simon Emmerson and singer Dorothee Munyaneza from the initial stages through to the final mix of the song.
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1.05pm Birth-music and the rhythms of family life- from a Yiddish lullaby to Senegalese duo Pape & Cheikh.
1.30pm Finding an audience
The fairy tale of Ali Farka Toure's rise from Malian farmer to award-winning world music star as told by Andy Kershaw, and Njane Mugambe on the trail of pure tradition.
Ali Farka Toure - a fairy tale
Andy Kershaw goes to Brussels to unravel the story behind one of world music's biggest stars: Ali Farka Toure, alias the bluesman of Africa.
LISTEN TO FINDING AN AUDIENCE
1.50pm Working songs and table music
From women grinding millet in North Cameroon to the potato harvest in Bolivia.
2.30pm Nurturing a brand
World music on the radio with Francis Gay from Funkhaus Europa and London-based Charlie Gillett, Catherine Guilyardi on the French connection, and Bill Badley on the wandering tones of the Bedu.
The Music of the Bedu
The Bedu are the nomadic pastoralists of the Middle East and North Africa. Their music tends to be utilitarian, used to convey the news, as a means of introduction, or to invite people to social gatherings, such as the all-important nightly coffee-drinking ceremony.
As the years roll by, this ancient culture is changing - and fading away. But its wider cultural significance in certain parts of the Arab world (where the Bedu way of life has always been mythologized as the embodiment of 'Arab-ness') remains strong. Presented by Bill Badley with Professor A J Racy, and Palestinian singer Reem Kelani.
The Broadcasters
When John Peel and Andy Kershaw started playing African records on Radio 1 in the late 1980's, they ran the risk of shocking British listeners unused to hearing non-English songs on mainstream UK radio. In Germany and France radio DJs had been embracing other musical cultures since the early 1980's, both in shows directed at immigrant communities and on mainstream radio.
How do radio DJs decide which world records are 'in' or worth airing, what problems do they face as world music DJs and how do they think world music should be approached in when programming for the radio.
The French Connection
The French capital has been harbouring and producing world music for a long time now, mostly as a natural consequence of immigration and integration - Catherine Guilyardi remembers the international cafés and cabarets of Paris between the two World Wars.
LISTEN TO NURTURING A BRAND
2.45pm Lovers' laments and wedding grooves
From the Laurel Fork Travelers singing and picking on Rosalee McFall, via the infectious passions of Ginesa Ortega, to an Australian version of Barbara Allen.
 4.00pm Crossing the borders
World music festivals with Peter Gabriel, Wah! - a Beginners' Guide to the interactive informality of the Indian classical tradition, Jameela Siddiqi's memory of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and the delicate balance of creative destruction weighed by Simon Broughton and Robin Denselow.
WAH! - A Beginners' Guide to Indian Concerts
For Western audiences, attending an Indian classical music concert can be slightly bewildering. Whereas Western art-music concerts are characterised by reverential silence and predefined programming, the Indian equivalent seems based on a mixture of interactivity and informality. Even during the middle of a performance, the audiences come and go from the auditorium, cry out 'wah!' or 'kiabate!' to express appreciation, and tap along to the piece using co-ordinated hand gestures.
The performers, meanwhile, may stop half way through a raga to provide a spoken commentary on the music, or to acknowledge a guru sitting in the front row. Furthermore, the audience sits on the floor instead of chairs, and they may be there until the small hours: beforehand, they have no idea how long the performance will be, or even what music it will contain. With Mohan Veena player Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, tabla players Sandeep Das and Kumar Bose, and producer Derek Roberts.
Creative Destruction
The relationship between war-torn countries and their music. Historical references and current examples of this delicate balance include Afghanistan, Iraq, and Rwanda. Presented by Simon Broughton with Robin Denselow and Eric Soul.
LISTEN TO CROSSING THE BORDERS
4.20pm Courtly music and protest songs - from Balinese gambuh depicting the battle with evil king Tan Mundur to the imperial traditions of China.
 5.00pm Dressing the mix
World music on the dancefloor with Clotaire K, Dudu Saar, Max Reinhardt and Rita Ray, klezmer in the new world order, and the attitudes of Western composers questioned by Ivan Hewett.
Bridging the horizon
Ivan Hewett talks to British-based composers James Dillon, Nigel Osborne and Errollyn Wallen, and discovers whether or not their compositions are influenced by the musics of other lands.
Whose Klezmer?
Klezmer has been transported from the Askenazi villages of Eastern Europe to the streets and clubs of North American melting-pots like New York. In its new homes, Klezmer has been reinvented as neo-Klezmer and fused with funk, jazz and electro-acoustic music.
A new wave of neo-Klezmer came about as the Iron Curtain fell and, perhaps ironically, is now one of the most pervasive popular-music idioms of non-Jewish Europe. With Ruth Ellen Gruber, the author of Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe, Jonathan Walton (Lemas Lovas) the director of YAD and member of London-based klezmer band Oi Va Voi, and Jerzy Bawol, accordion player of Krakow-based klezmer band Kroke.
LISTEN TO DRESSING THE MIX
5.20pm Music over the horizon
From Kurdish epic chant to Strings of Pearls from The Klezmatics.
5.45pm Stepping out of the box
Andrew McGregor surveys the final frontiers of world music with AyÅŸegül Merrick from Turkey, Stella Chiweshe from Zimbabwe, music from the top of the world with Fiona Talkington and Ailu Gaup, plus David Hughes and Alan Walker on the hidden music of the Kakure Kirishitan.
LISTEN TO STEPPING OUT...
 6pm RADIO 3 AWARDS FOR WORLD MUSIC 2005
Watch or listen to the concert
The sounds of planet earth, celebrated in this concert featuring performances from winners in seven of the categories of this year's Awards. Lucy Duran introduces the Poll Winners' Concert, held at The Sage Gateshead, hosted by Eliza Carthy and Benjamin Zephaniah. Click on the artists name for more information.
Tinariwen (Mali) The sounds of the Sahara Desert
Kaushiki Chakrabarty(India) A new voice in Indian classical music
Lhasa(Canada) A former circus singer who mixes her Latin and European roots
Amparanoia (Spain)The eclectic sound of modern Spain
Chango Spasiuk(Argentina) Accordion virtuoso playing the furious style called chamamé
Khaled (Algeria) The King of Rai
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