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The Songmen of Echo

on BBC Radio 3

Graham Wiggins visits
Elcho Island, off the north-eastern corner of Arnhem
Land, to learn the trade secrets of making and playing the didgeridoo, known locally as the yeraki. His teachers are the songmen of the clan into which, like most of the island's few white residents, he was adopted. During his stay, he recorded the funeral ceremony of a young girl who drowned - including the smoking-out of her house and the burning of her toys.

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Graham Wiggins

BBC Radio 3

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