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Radio 3's world music programme, with new CDs and studio sessions

World on 3: Live from WOMAD

Live from WOMAD

23/07/2010

BBC Radio 3 - World on 3, Live from WOMAD

Andrew McGregor and Lopa Kothari with music from WOMAD 2010: including Staff Benda Bilili.

Andrew McGregor and Lopa Kothari with a programme from the 2010 WOMAD festival. With Staff Benda Bilili, Horace Andy, Hanggai, Chumbawumba and Ska Cubano, plus interviews.

Andrew McGregor, Lopa Kothari and Lucy Duran present a weekend of broadcasts from the globe's leading festival of world music, live from the festival site in Charlton Park in Wiltshire. Tonight, Congolese award-winners Staff Benda Bilili and roots reggae veteran Horace Andy on the Open Air Stage, Chinagrass ensemble Hanggai from inner Mongolia in the Siam Tent, plus English folk radicals Chumbawamba and Caribbean dance band Ska Cubano on Radio 3's own stage in the shady Arboretum. Plus interviews and truck sessions, starting off more than seven hours of live broadcasting from WOMAD.

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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