Music, English playwright, William Congreve observed, "has charms to soothe a savage breast."

Meanwhile cellist, Yo-Yo Ma once commented, "Healing? I think that is what music is all about. Don't you?"

The third part of the series begins with a look at the large-scale programmes for curing asthma with chanting which have been developed in India and Japan.

Hanson samples both the established and brand-new 'sound healing’ treatments and tries to uncover the science behind these methods.

Can the National Physical Laboratory in London, UK’s top research establishment, shed some light on the acoustic phenomena underlying Tibetan 'singing bowls' therapy?

And why has music become a leading 'arts therapy' discipline in conflict zones, such as the Balkans or the Middle East?

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	Programme Three

Brhaddhvani
The Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (Research Foundation)
Frank Perry
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