Eight programmes in which Richard Widdess explores the wide range of traditional music of faith and festival on the Indian subcontinent.
3: The Sacred Word
Sung and recited holy texts such as the 3000-year-old Rig Veda and Sama Veda , as well as the 12th-century Gitagovinda, which describes the passion of the god Krishna and the milkmaid Radha; koranic recitation and devotional song from Islamic communities of India and Palistand; songs of Guru Nanak , the founder of the Sikh religion, recorded in the Bargra Sahib temple in Delhi; and a reading from the Torah sung by a descendant of the Jewish traders who settled in South and West India in the middle ages.