A proud Yolngu man from northern Australia, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is also a musician shaped by the Christian hymns he sang as a boy.

How much do we really know about the blind indigenous musician, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu? We’ll reveal the Yolngu man behind the music with his biographer, Robert Hillman.

Dubbed the ‘rock stars of Renaissance vocal music', The Tallis Scholars are one of the world's great sacred music ensembles. We meet their founder and director, Peter Phillips.

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.

We go inside the spectacular Baha’í House of Worship in Sydney for Australia’s first Baha’í Choral Festival.

A church singer who took reality TV show The Voice by storm in 2013, Ms. Murphy joins us to sing live in the studio.

A tradition of Protestant folk-hymn singing using shape-notes that’s survived in America’s Deep South for more than 200 years, Sacred Harp singing is undergoing a world-wide revival.

Qawwali is the Islamic devotional music of India and Pakistan, poems and praise-songs traditionally offered at the shrines of Sufi masters and saints. Canadian-born Tahir Hussain Faridi Qawwal is a Sufi Qawwali singer bringing this intensely rhythmic and soulful music to Western audiences with his group Fanna-Fi-Allah, and the ‘future tech’ music of his Temple Step Project.

One of the finest British songwriters of our time, Mike Scott from The Waterboys is also one of rock music’s great survivors, and a man in search of spirit. Mike Scott joins us to talk about his life as a Waterboy, writing classic songs like ‘The Whole of the Moon’ and ‘Fisherman’s Blues’, and his continuing search for an ageless wisdom.

How do you go from backing singer for 80s pop bands like Fine Young Cannibals and UB40 to touring the world with your own vocal group? Carol Pemberton made this dream a reality with the UK’s leading female gospel-inspired vocal group, Black Voices.