In the seventh of eight programmes of music from the great trade route across Central Asia, Sara Nuttall presents sitar music and a love song from Badakhshan in the Pamirs and throat-singing from the Altai mountains.
Colin Huehns introduces some of the exuberant music and sounds he heard recently in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, with Islamic-influenced makam as well as erhu karaoke and mouth-organ busking.