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Thursday, April 9, 2026

Charif Megarbane: A Beginner's Guide

Megan Iacobini de Fazio speaks with the genre-busting Lebanese multi-instrumentalist and composer, a conjuror of remarkable “illusions of proximity”

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Songs of the Silenced

A new instalment from the Yiddish Glory project revisits lost Yiddish songs from World War II ghettos and labour camps, though this time the themes are broader. “In ghettos, what they find funny is toilet humour”, hears Simon Broughton

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Horse-Fiddle Futures

KG Hutchins joins the nomad Mongolian fiddlers communicating with nature and preserving a threatened land

Monday, March 23, 2026

Q&A: Joshua Burnside

Joshua Burnside talks about his new album 'It’s Not Going to be Okay', which finds the singer-songwriter grappling with grief following the death of his best friend

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Q&A: Kronos Quartet's David Harrington

Simon Broughton speaks to David Harrington about Kronos Quartet's Forgive Us For, an album that features music from Palestine, Iceland and Ukraine

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Setting the Scene: Yilian Cañizares

Violinist, singer and composer Yilian Cañizares discusses her relationship with her homeland of Cuba and her new-found home in Lausanne, Switzerland

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Q&A: Souad Massi

Russ Slater Johnson finds out why Souad Massi is sounding the alarm for humanity on her latest album, Zagate

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