Commonwealth Connections Podcast
World music from the Commonwealth countries for 大象传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 World on 3, Fridays. Musicians, sportspeople and cultural figures introduce music recorded on location.
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Heritage Track: Belize
Sat 2 Aug 2014
The Hon. Dolores Balderamos Garcia is a politician, lawyer and broadcaster.
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Trinidad and Tobago
Sun 27 Jul 2014
Within these small Islands, steelpan orchestras are an integral part of daily life.
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Heritage Track: Nauru
Sat 26 Jul 2014
Measuring eight square miles with a total coastline of eighteen and a half miles and a...
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Zambia
Sat 19 Jul 2014
Seven kilometres from the world heritage site of Victoria Falls, in the Southern lies...
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Heritage Track: Cameroon
Sat 19 Jul 2014
Saxophonist Manu Dibango brought the sound of Cameroon to the world but also brought a...
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Bangladesh
Sat 12 Jul 2014
On a rooftop beside Gulshan lake, above the bells of tuk tuks and sounds of the call a...
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Heritage Track: Kiribati
Sat 12 Jul 2014
Kiribati is an archipelago of 33 islands in the central Pacific, with a population of...
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Heritage Track: St Vincent and the Grenadines
Sat 5 Jul 2014
Writer and poet Philip Nanton chooses Credentials by Shake Keane, the well-known jazz...
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Seychelles
Sat 5 Jul 2014
In the midst of the Seychelles Carnival, Latroupe Nasyonal Sesel, a ceilidh-style band...
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Singapore
Sat 28 Jun 2014
Singapore is home to a very senior group of 'waijiang' musicians originating from in...
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Heritage Track: Tuvalu
Sat 28 Jun 2014
Formerly known as the Ellice Islands, Tuvalu is a Pacific island nation situated and...
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Heritage Track: Mozambique
Sat 21 Jun 2014
Mozambique is something of an anomaly in terms of Commonwealth membership.
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Malaysia
Sat 21 Jun 2014
In the capital of Malaysia's southernmost state of Johor, traditional Malay Ghazal and...
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Uganda
Sat 14 Jun 2014
Across the source of the Nile at Jinja and eastwards towards the Kenyan border lies...
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Heritgae Track: St. Kitts & Nevis
Sat 14 Jun 2014
Athlete Jason Rogers (100m), living and training in Canada, chooses an example of the...
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Sri Lanka
Sat 7 Jun 2014
In Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, Vesak celebrations are underway for the birth and of...
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Heritage Track: Papua New Guinea
Sat 7 Jun 2014
Jeffry Feeger, Papua New Guinea's leading visual artist, chooses the song West Papua...
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New Zealand
Mon 2 Jun 2014
Whiri Tu Aka are a 5-piece all-female Maori a capella group founded by Mina Ripa...
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Heritage track: Guyana
Mon 2 Jun 2014
Writer and academic David Dabydeen is currently Guyana's ambassador to China.
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Kenya
Sat 24 May 2014
Recorded at the African Heritage House outside Nairobi. Two generations of the Luo the...
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Heritage Track: Nigeria
Sat 24 May 2014
Nigeria has long been a powerhouse in terms of world music, with artists like Fela the...
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Heritage Track: Vanuatu
Sat 17 May 2014
Vanuatu - which literally means freestanding - has only existed as an independent 1980...
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Dominica
Sat 17 May 2014
Music is a family affair in La Petite Souffriere, a tiny and remote village high in of...
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Heritage Track: Gambia
Sat 10 May 2014
Gambian athlete, Suwaibou Sanneh, carries his country's music with him as he prepares...
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Malta
Sat 10 May 2014
Extinct for over 200 years, the Maltese Lira can be heard along with a clutch or other...
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Heritage Track: Samoa
Sat 3 May 2014
Sia Figiel is a novelist, painter and poet who won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' for...
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Solomon Islands
Sat 3 May 2014
Bamboo grows all over the Solomon Islands and provides a perfect natural material for...
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Heritage Track: Grenada
Sat 26 Apr 2014
Writer Jacob Ross was short-listed for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and in was...
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Malawi
Sat 26 Apr 2014
In a music centre at the heart of Malawi's capital Lilongwe, 3 groups converge to some...
