Eight programmes in which Richard Widdess explores the wide range of traditional music of faith and festival on the Indian subcontinent.
1: The Offering of Sound
Bells, conch shells, trumpets, oboes. cymbals and drums are used in the rituals of Hindu and Buddhist temples, as they were in the court music of the Muslim moguls, as a way of expressing the power of God and as an echo of the ethereal unheard sound anahata nada, which suffuses the universe. Producer John Thornley