BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Music Planet

Music: World

Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran present music from some of the world's remotest regions

To accompany the BBC TV series Human Planet, Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran present programmes featuring music from peoples of some of the world's remotest regions, from Papua New Guinea to Mali

Music Planet: The Arctic

The Arctic

27/01/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Music Planet, The Arctic

Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran explore the music of Arctic communities.

Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran explore the music of Arctic communities, visiting Greenland, Norway, Canada and Siberia.

For this major series to accompany BBC One's 'Human Planet', Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran go in search of music from some of the world's remotest locations.. This week: the Arctic. 

Greenland: Lucy greets the New Year with music, and hears the mighty voice of Greenland's greatest singer, Rasmus Lyberth.

Norway: Andy goes reindeer-herding under the midnight sun with Human Planet's May-Torril, who also happens to be an accomplished singer in the Sami tradition of yoiking. 

Canada: Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq introduces us to her village in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and sings the intensely soulful music of the western Inuit.

Siberia: Andy meets musicians from Yakutsk, the coldest city on earth, where long winter nights are whiled away with the help of a Jew's harp.

Producers Roger Short and James Parkin.

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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