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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: Cities

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03/03/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Music Planet, Cities

Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran explore music of three African cities.

Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran explore music of cities, visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and South Africa.

In the final programme in this series to accompany BBC One's 'Human Planet', Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran focus on the music of Cities. 

Congo: Andy roams the streets of Kinshasa, where there is a thriving scene of young musicians who can't afford guitars, and instead have made amplified thumb-pianos from old car parts. 

Mali: Lucy enjoys 'Dimanche a Bamako', the lively Sunday music scene of Mali's capital, and meets two musicians who are stars in Mali, but hardly known outside.

South Africa: A prison is just about as far away from the natural world as it's possible to get. Andy visits the Central Correctional Facility in Pretoria to hear their world-class male choir. 

Producers James Parkin and Roger Short.

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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