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Hardeep Singh Kohli sits in

Hardeep Singh Kohli sits in to present the topical faith show, and talks to Indian classical musician and sitar player Anoushka Shankar. Plus inspirational music and topical chat.

Hardeep Singh Kohli sits in to present the topical faith show. His guest today is the classical Indian musician and sitar player Anoushka Shankar, daughter of the legendary sitar player, Ravi Shankar, who died last December. Anoushka's latest album "Traces of You" is released on 7th October and the title track, which features vocals by Norah Jones, is released the same day. Hardeep will also talk to Dr Sarah Stewart, curator of the exhibition "The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination" which opens this week at the Brunei Gallery at University College London's School of Oriental and African Studies. His faith guest is the Rev'd Dave Tomlinson.

Producer: Janet McLarty.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 6 Oct 2013 07:00

Music Played

  • Don McLean

    American Pie

  • The Inspirational Choir

    Abide With Me

  • Billy Joel

    An Innocent Man

  • Fifth Dimension

    Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In

  • Anoushka Shankar

    Traces Of You

  • The Turtles

    Happy Together

  • Fleet Foxes

    Mykonos

  • Only Men Aloud

    Love Divine All Loves Excelling

  • Neil Young

    Harvest Moon

  • Frank Mills

    Music Box Dancer

  • Brenton Wood

    Gimme Little Sign

  • Culture Club

    Time (Clock Of The Heart)

  • Stevie Wonder

    If You Really Love Me

  • Katy Perry

    Roar

  • Joshua Radin

    Tomorrow Is Going To Be Better

  • ö

    Isobel

  • The Inner Light

  • Madness

    It Must Be Love

  • Solomon Burke

    Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

  • Passenger

    Holes

Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar

The sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar is one of the leading figures in World Music today. Deeply rooted in Indian classical music which she studied under her father and guru, the late Ravi Shankar, Anoushka has branched out to explore other styles of music including flamenco, jazz, electronica and western classical music which all influence her today. The results are evident in her latest album “Traces of You” which is released7th October,produced by Nitan Sawhney. The title track from that album which featuresvocals from her half sister, Norah Jones, is also being released as a single.

The Everlasting Flame

The Everlasting Flame

"The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination" is the first exhibition of its kind toprovide an in depth visual narrative of the history of Zoroastrianism, its rich cultural heritge and the influence it has had on the major world religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It opens this week at the Brunei Gallery at the School of Oriental and African Studies,University of London and runs until 14th December.The curator is Dr Sarah Stewart, Lecturer in Zoroastrianism at SOAS.

Dave Tomlinson

Dave Tomlinson

Dave was a house church leader for many years before founding Holy Joe's, a church in a pub in Clapham for disaffected churchgoers. He is now Vicar of St Luke's, Holloway. He's also author of"How To Be A Bad Christian"which is published by Hodder & Stoughton.

Broadcast

  • Sun 6 Oct 2013 07:00