In the first of eight programmes, Sara Nuttall explores the traditional music of the great trade route that linked China to the West in the Middle Ages. 1: A Journey through Turkey From the Byzantine city of Constantinople - present-day Istanbul - south and eastwards across Central Anatolia, visiting a wedding in the high pastures, caravanserais, and a rare public performance of the Dance of the Dervishes in Konya, the centre of the Mevlana Sufi order.
Producer John Thornley