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"Janet Topp Fargion"

was found in the details of the these programme(s)

There are omissions, mainly due to the BBC not always completely listing the cast and crew for a programme.

Programme Name:	Details:
World Music	...Three programmes in which JANET TOPP FARGION explores how Arab and African music and instruments have influenced one another during centuries of trade and migration across the Red Sea and the INDIAn Ocean. 1: On the small island of Zanzibar can be found the `mwaka' - a Zoroastrian new year festival inherited from Persia - sailors' songs, Arab singing styles and dance rhythms, and the chanting of `maulidi' or readings from the life of the Prophet. These are all reminders of the waves of immigrants from Oman and the Hadramaut region of the Yemen who brought Islam with them. The influence of Cairo is heard in the `taarab'....
World Routes	...Lucy Duran introduces music from around the globe: JANET TOPP FARGION talks about the British Library Sound ArcHIVe's World and Traditional Music recordings, there's a report from Simon Broughton in Siberia, and Verity Sharp meets Sheila Stewart, one of the greatest singers of traditional Scottish music, who is the last in the line of a rich oral tradition of song, story and traveller culture....

Programme Name:

Details:

...Three programmes in which JANET TOPP FARGION explores how Arab and African music and instruments have influenced one another during centuries of trade and migration across the Red Sea and the INDIAn Ocean. 1: On the small island of Zanzibar can be found the `mwaka' - a Zoroastrian new year festival inherited from Persia - sailors' songs, Arab singing styles and dance rhythms, and the chanting of `maulidi' or readings from the life of the Prophet. These are all reminders of the waves of immigrants from Oman and the Hadramaut region of the Yemen who brought Islam with them. The influence of Cairo is heard in the `taarab'....

World Routes

...Lucy Duran introduces music from around the globe: JANET TOPP FARGION talks about the British Library Sound ArcHIVe's World and Traditional Music recordings, there's a report from Simon Broughton in Siberia, and Verity Sharp meets Sheila Stewart, one of the greatest singers of traditional Scottish music, who is the last in the line of a rich oral tradition of song, story and traveller culture....