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Womad Weekend

BBC Radio 3
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A final visit to the Womad festival in Reading, with Andrew McGregor and Lucy Duran. Today sees the long-awaited Womad debut of Senegal's veteran Orchestra Baobab, and there are highlights from
Polish gypsy band Romani Rad from the Radio 3 Village Stage and Mexico's Los de Abajo from the Open Air stage. Alpha
Blondy from the Ivory Coast performs live and the weekend ends in the Siam Tent with the sitar of Anoushkar Shankar. Plus interviews and acoustic performances from the Radio 3 Womad studio.

Contributors

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Andrew McGregor
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Lucy Duran.
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Romani Rad
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Siam Tent
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Anoushkar Shankar.
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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