We meet Divya Bhatia, Director of the Rajasthan International Folk Festival in Jodhpur – known as Jodhpur RIFF– a spectacular roots and devotional music festival set in a 600-year old fort whose aim is to nourish the heritage of the master musicians of Rajasthan in north-west India.

Music from South African superstars Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a vocal group mixing the traditional Zulu singing style of isicathamiya with a Christian gospel message.

There aren’t many interviews that end with a wedding but that’s what happened when Geoff Wood met traditional Canadian Celtic band The East Pointers.

A musical homage to the Monkey King, hero of the Ming dynasty novel Journey to the West, one of the four classics of Chinese literature and the basis for the cult 1970s Japanese TV series Monkey (Saiyuki).

Best-selling pioneers of Western mantra singing, Deva Premal and Miten join us from their rural recording studio to preview a new live album.

We meet Australian song-writing legend Shane Howard, former lead singer of Goanna whose 1982 land-rights anthem 'Solid Rock' has become an Australian classic.

It’s seen as the quintessential Arabic instrument, but as Joseph Tawadros explains, the oud (lute) has a long history dating back to the time of the Pharaohs and beyond.

We trace the history of one of most famous freedom songs, ‘We Shall Overcome'. How did a simple hymn rise to become ‘one of the most powerful songs of the 20th century’?

Over centuries the Baka forest people of Cameroon in Central Africa have developed a unique music for ritual, hunting, enchantment and celebration, as Martin Cradick and Su Hart from the Afro-Celtic group Baka Beyond explain.

She may not be a household name just yet but on YouTube the Sikh kirtan musician Manika Kaur is a star, with one of her recent videos racking up more than 4 ½ million views.