Arab-African Cross-currents
Three programmes in which Janet Topp Fargion looks at the way Arab and African music and instruments have influenced one another during centuries of trade and migration across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
1: Zanzibar. On this small island off the coast of Tanzania can be found the Mwaka - a Zoroastrian new year festival inherited from Persia - sailors' songs, Arab singing styles and dance rhythms, and the chanting of Maulidi, or readings from the life of the Prophet.
Producer John Thornley