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Music Planet

Music: World

The best roots-based music from across the world.

The best roots-based music from across the world - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent, classic tracks and new releases.

Music Planet: Claudia Aurora in session with Kathryn Tickell

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Claudia Aurora in session with Kathryn Tickell

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Kathryn Tickell with a studio session from Portuguese fado singer Claudia Aurora

Kathryn Tickell with a studio session from Portuguese fado singer Claudia Aurora, a Road Trip to Cape Breton and a Mixtape from punk and reggae DJ Don Letts.

Kathryn Tickell with the best roots-based music from around the world, including a studio session with Portuguese fado singer Claudia Aurora., and a Road Trip to Cape Breton Island in Eastern Canada, hosted by the CBC's Wendy Bergfeldt.  This week's Mixtape is by Don Letts, who made his name in the 1980s as a punk and reggae DJ and film director, and our Classic Artist is Cheikh Lo from Senegal.     

 Listen to the world - Music Planet, Radio 3's new world music show presented by Lopa Kothari and Kathryn Tickell, brings us the best roots-based music from across the globe - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent; classic tracks and new releases, and every week a bespoke Road Trip from a different corner of the globe, taking us to the heart of its music and culture. Plus special guest Mixtapes and gems from the BBC archives. Whether it's traditional Indian ragas, Malian funk, UK folk or Cuban jazz, you'll hear it on Music Planet.

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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