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 On-Location Features Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran have presented some wonderful on-location features for Radio 3 over the past few years. Much of the footage is unique, highlighting the incredible diversity of music from the countries visited. This page now gives a permanent home to the pick of these features, a place where you can come and listen at any time you choose. Choose from our top recommendations below or click on one of the many archive features in the on-line archive list to the right.  Lucy Duran visits Cape Verde, the windswept and dramatic archipelago of nine islands lying some 250 miles off the west coast of Africa. With rare and specially-made music recordings, she explores the story of this small country.  Lucy Duran explores Brazil’s North Eastern state of Pernambuco, travelling inland to the barren semi-desert area known as the Sertao. Few people visit this harsh, hot and in parts, lawless place. Despite its reputation in Brazil as poor and miserable, it's home to some wonderful and unexpected musical traditions.  Lucy Duran presents three special programmes recorded in Peru, where she joins in the fiestas, meets some of the country's best known musicians and hears an expert play the scissors.  Lucy Duran presents two special editions of World Routes from the Festival on the Niger in Segou, Mali  Andy presents two special on-location programmes, including sessions recorded all over this vast and diverse country.  Andy visits Europe's largest port and uncovers a powerful sense of a personal and musical identity which is unique to Marseille.  Turkmenistan is a curious, little-visited place where the months of the year are named after the President's family, beards are illegal, and there's a public holiday for the honeydew melon.  After decades of civil war and strife, the south of the country at least, is now becoming more stable. Lucy goes in search of the breathtakingly complicated music of the Bugandan Royal Court and tries to get an audience with King Ronald Mutebi.  Two part journey to Zanzibar, a group of islands off the East Coast of Africa, where she gets to know the Swahili Arab-influenced musical style Taarab and meets 94 year old Bi Kidude.  Andy Kershaw visits the Festival of Nomad Music in Mauritania, a country on the western fringe of the Sahara Desert that is rarely visited by international tourists or businessmen. |
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On Location Archive Related Links on radio 3 on bbc.co.uk Charlie Gillett on the World Service bbc.co.uk/music - world music DJ Ritu on BBC London Africa Beyond on the BBC Radio 2 - Folk Awards on the web The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. |
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