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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: Jungles

Jungles

03/02/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Music Planet, Jungles

Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran explore the music of remote jungle communities.

Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran explore the music of remote jungle communities aroung the world, visiting the Solomon Islands, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burma.

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: Jungles.

Solomon Islands: Andy teams up with musicians in Honiara, who use giant rainforest bamboo trees to give a monster bass sound to their songs.

Congo: Lucy presents a profile of the Mbendjele people of northern Congo, a pygmy hunter-gatherer group whose music echoes the sound of the forest that feeds them.

Burma: Andy visits the Thai town of Mae Sot on the border with Burma where he records musicians from one of the giant refugee camps there, meets a Burmese protest singer who has just finished a 10-year jail sentence, and drops in on the local Karen-rebel guerrilla centre disguised as a restaurant.

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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